Veg box delivery round

Two years ago we were the only vehicle on the road when delivering our veg boxes around the area every week during the lockdown(s). This photo was taken yesterday en-route to Zennor and St. Ives. Yesterday's big delivery round (our other smaller round in the other van takes in Heamoor, Penzance and Newlyn, including our community collection hub in the wonderful Redwing Gallery) wound around Newbridge, St. Just, Boscean, Pendeen, Zennor, St. Ives community collection hub, Ludgvan, Gulval, Paul, Kemyel, Crean, Trendrennan, Porthcurno, Trevescan, Sennen, Escalls, Tregiffian, Hendra, and the Cot Valley. Surely one of the most scenic veg box rounds there is???

Many many thanks to our small team of volunteer drivers for doing the bulk of our community deliveries - Chris, Joe, Polly and Ed. If anybody would like to join the community farm team as a volunteer delivery driver, in our vans, who has a few hours to spare on some Fridays, please contact us on info@bosaverncommunityfarm.org.uk. Many thanks!

Tomorrow's veg boxes

We will be out and about around Penwith tomorrow delivering our fresh not-for-profit veg boxes to collection hubs and member's homes. All the veg has come from the community farm and has been picked fresh yesterday and today. 

This week the seasonal veg in our boxes is:-

£7.70 box - basil, tomatoes, cucumber, pepper, rainbow chard, green French beans, and new potatoes.

£12 box - tomatoes, cucumber, pepper, rainbow chard, new potatoes, garlic, kale, blackcurrants, and green French beans.

We can add eggs, bread, milk, yoghurt, and honey as extras.

Veg boxes

We are now filling our weekly veg boxes with lovely summer produce - tomatoes, basil, cucumbers, new potatoes, blackcurrants, redcurrants, salad leaves, rainbow chard, spring onions, globe artichokes, bulb fennel, green peppers, green French beans, lemon verbena etc..

Small boxes cost £7.70 and have on average 6 items of veg. Standard boxes cost £12 and have on average 10 items of veg. Please email us to join our scheme and support the farm.

vegbox.bcf@bcents.org.uk

Preparing the maincrop field

After the chicken sheds moved into the old maincrop field, we prepared the area they came out of ready for some of this year's maincrops to be sowed and planted into. First it was topped to cut the grass, then ploughed to bury the grass, then rolled to break up the lumps, then we pulled as many dock roots out by hand as we could, then it was shallow-rotovated. Some swede, beetroot, and chard have been sown in long lines, but the weather has been very dry so germination has been patchy. In the photo our potato patch can be seen at the top of the field.

2022 garlic harvest

In May we harvested our garlic crop which had grown over winter in Imogen polytunnel. We got almost 1000 good-sized bulbs out of just under one half of a tunnel, which is a good return. Garlic is available in the farm shop, veg boxes, and Sennen Farmer's Market, at £1 per bulb.

Shivani harvesting garlic and preparing them for drying.

True garlic bulbs drying in our Propagation Station.

Not to be confused with elephant garlic, a close relative of the leek, which we generally harvest fresh/wet for our veg boxes during the hungry gap (lovely in a risotto).

James

 

James, shown here pulling dock roots out of a recently ploughed patch, volunteered with us last month as a WWOOFer, before moving on to his next WWOOFing project - many thanks to James for his assistance whilst living on the farm.

Moving chicken sheds

Here are some more photos of Clive Williams moving our chicken sheds into a new field early last month.

The first shed being manouvred into the new field.

The second shed about to start moving from the old field.

The third shed on its way up the farm.

Chickens being released into the old crop field to graze on kale and chard.