Veg boxes, January 13th

This week's veg boxes contained:-
Small £6 box (pictured above) - leeks, striped beetroot, a pumpkin portion, potatoes (all grown on the community farm), carrots and curly kale (from Cargease Organics near Penzance).
Standard £10 box - leeks, striped beetroot, a pumpkin portion, potatoes, Chinese cabbage, dried "ring of fire" chillies, watercress, flat-leaved parsley (all grown on the community farm), carrots and curly kale (from Cargease Organics near Penzance).
To order your veg box please contact us on vegbox.bcf@bcents.org or phone 788454.

Aerial photograph August 1977

This interesting photo came into our possession today, and shows the farm buildings as they were in August 1977, almost 40 years ago. The main points to note are:-
- the campsite of our neighbours Bosavern House Bed and Breakfast used to be a large vegetable garden;
- the stable block at the entrance to the community farm was still standing, whereas only the back wall still remains today;
- the farm was used almost solely for dairy cows;
- the well in Home Field was not in use (we have recently recommissioned the well to provide water to irrigate our vegetable crops).
Please compare this photo to that in the blog post of August 2016, showing an aerial photo of the farm from the previous summer.

Christa and Yarrow

The community farm would like to thank Christa and Yarrow, from Canada, for volunteering on the farm for the past two weeks, and we wish them well at their next WWOOF farm experience.

Veg boxes 6th January

Small £6 veg box - leeks, parsnips, Jerusalem artichokes, Sarpo mira potatoes, with carrots and a savoy cabbage from Cargease Organics.

The standard £10 veg box also contained beetroot, swede, black winter radishes (plus their edible leaves), and pak choi.

Some winter tasks.

Winter is the time of year on the farm when we can turn our attention to projects which we normally have no time to do, such as:-

Mulching the rhubarb patch with cow manure (Alice and Nathan doing the work here).

Tidying up, weeding and pruning in the fruit cage (with Ian, Jenny, Joan, Christa, Charlie and Yarrow).

Creating a herb garden behind the Mothership polytunnel (Clare, Helen, Charlie and Ian about to start work).

The herb garden area before we began.

And at the end of yesterday, mostly weeded and a new border erected (using old clay roof tiles), with Joan.

A friendly robin helping prepare the herb bed.

Veg boxes 30th December

Our final veg boxes of 2016 were on Friday 30th December, and contained (all grown on the community farm):-
Small box (£6, or £7 delivered to your door) - Sarpo Mira potatoes, beetroot, Chinese cabbage, leafy celery, leeks, and a pumpkin portion.
Standard box (£10, or £11 delivered to your door) - Sarpo Mira potatoes, beetroot, Chinese cabbage, leafy celery, a winter squash, leeks, chard, watercress, and Vietnamese coriander.
There was no bread this week because Vicky's were on holiday, but we'll be back to normal next Friday.
Eggs and milk can also be included in your box, but their prices are going up slightly to £1.60 for half a dozen eggs, and £1.25 for a litre of organic whole milk, from next Friday.

This week's small veg box.

Lin and Yuki

Lin (from China) and Yuki (from Japan), half of our Christmas WWOOFing team, left us yesterday to return to language school in London, after volunteering with us for 2 weeks. They can be seen in the previous photo of Christmas dinner, seated on the left of the table. Many thanks to them!