Veg boxes 25th August

Last Friday's veg boxes contained:-
£6 box - Charlotte salad potatoes, courgette(s), peppers, leeks (from Cargease Organics), rainbow chard, and a sprig of lemon verbena.
£10 box - Maris Peer new potatoes, mixed salad leaves, courgette(s), rainbow chard, peppers, red Russian kale, French breakfast radishes (or a globe artichoke), beetroot, leeks, and a sprig of lemon verbena.

Help needed to bring in the hay

We have had four meadows cut for hay this year, and it was baled this afternoon. Tomorrow, Bank Holiday Monday, is forecast to be a lovely sunny day, and we need as many people as possible to help us to bring it in and stack it in the barn (or as much as we can manage in one day). You must be physically fit and willing to get hot and sweaty! We will start at 9am, and lunch will be provided (vegetable and lentil stew). We'd love to see you there.
If you are coming by car, please park in the field rather than in the farmyard, as we will need tractor and trailer access to the open barn, over and over and over again.

Rebuild Southwest

A team of workers from Rebuild Southwest / Who Dares Works spent a week helping on the farm from 7th to 11th August, and we are very grateful for their input. They repaired our chicken fence and cut the grass around its base to make sure the electrics work, built a new compost bay out of reclaimed pallets, cleaned out the chicken sheds, weeded and laid compost and woodchip on a sheltered salad bed, built a fire-pit with seating, dug a sunken trackway behind the bee-friendly garden, built a rabbit-fence around our new herb garden, and cleared around the overgrown square-metre beds from last years' gardening course. A good week's work!

The improved fire-pit by the cob barn, with seating made from used tyres and fence offcuts.

Rabbit-fence around the new herb garden behind the Mothership.

Bed system laid out in the sheltered growing area.

Trakcway dug behind the bee-friendly garden, to allow access to the lost corner.

The overgrown square-metre beds reclaimed.

For more information on the scheme please visit their site at http://www.rebuildsouthwest.co.uk/

Simon, Mathieu, Maria, and Sean

We'd like to thank four volunteers who all left the farm recently for their help during their time with us.

Maria, from Sheffield, picking tree spinach (magentaspreen) by the compost station.

Simon, from Brittany, hoeing leeks in the market garden.

Sean (in the foreground), from Bristol, planting leeks.

And Mathieu, from France, of whom I have no photo!

Veg boxes 19th August 2017

All the veg in last Friday's veg boxes was grown on the community farm, and was:-
Small veg box (£6) - Charlotte salad potatoes, red Russian kale, a globe artichoke, a bunch of beetroot, courgettes, and peppers.
Standard veg box (£10) - Charlotte salad potatoes, red Russian kale, a bunch of beetroot, courgettes, peppers, aubergines, French breakfast radishes, rhubarb, rainbow chard, and fresh basil.

Various courgette varieties picked ready for veg boxes.

Friday's small veg box.

Anais and Emma

Anais and Emma, two friends from France, came to the community farm to wwoof with us for 3 weeks, and left on Friday to return to France via London. We send you our thanks for your help this summer, we're glad you had a lovely time with us, and we wish you the very best with your onward studies.

Anais planting a late crop of peas in the Sausage polytunnel.

Emma picking beetroot in one of the veg fields.

Our next workshop on the farm - Sunday 20th.

Landscape Painting Workshop

 @ Bosavern Community Farm

Sunday 20^th August 2017

 11.30am – 4.30pm

  £5.00 includes lunch

Bring your own materials

Contact Sonja 01736 785 773 to book place