Veg boxes 10th February 2023

 

Stopping for a lunch break on last Friday's delivery round, near Halsetown.

Our not-for-profit veg boxes this Friday are expected to contain:-

£7.70 box - potatoes, rainbow chard, dried chillies, mixed salad leaves, beetroot (from Trenow organic market garden), and a savoy cabbage (from Cargease Organics).

£12 box - all the above plus watercress, oriental greens, and a kohl rabi.

Milla

 

Milla harvesting komatsuna ("Chinese spinach" or "oriental greens") on the market garden.

Milla, who has been volunteering with us through WWOOF, moved on to her next placement on Sunday. Many thanks to Milla for all her help over recent weeks, and we wish her all the best in her future.

Veg boxes 3rd February 2023

Potatoes, dug yesterday, bagged today, delivered on Friday.

Our fresh seasonal veg boxes this week will include (all being well!):-

Small veg box - Carolus potatoes, kale, salad leaves, a red cabbage, and a cauliflower.

Standard veg box - Carolus potatoes, kale, watercress, a red cabbage, a cauliflower, some mixed herbs, spring greens, oriental greens, and purple-top turnips.

All grown here on the community farm except for the red cabbages and cauliflowers, which are travelling 14 miles from another organic grower.

WWOOF UK film

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlGLXVFYxhs

Please follow this link to watch a beautiful new film, made last year by a film maker called Kate Colenbrander, who volunteered as a WWOOFer on four farms in the UK, one of which was Bosavern Community Farm. The film is a very good introduction to the ethos behind our farm, and similar farms, and the growing sustainable food movement in the UK and across the world.

If this film inspires you to join in, whether as a residential WWOOF volunteer, or in some other way, please contact us through the email on our website, or phone 01736 788454, or find us on the WWOOF website (or Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc...). Or walk down to meet us and have a look around!

Propagation Station

 

Our Propagation Station polytunnel has been neglected all winter, being used mainly as a dumping ground and storage unit. But over the past two weeks we have tidied it out, organised it, repaired the door-frame, got rid of sacks of junk, got the hot-bed up and running (and Milla has sown aubergines, jalapenos, and globe artichokes in it), created two sowing and potting-on stations, and hung all the watering-cans from the ridge-pole. It is now fit and ready for the new season!

We have also sown three trays of mange-tout, always the first thing we sow at the start of January, and they are starting to sprout already.

Ben

 

Ben, who is the furthest right on this photo, helped us out as a volunteer on the farm for several months (please see our earlier post about the first time he left!), and has now moved on to a full-time paid role on a local flower-picking farm. Ben has been a great asset to us this winter, looking after our chickens over Christmas and New Year, and taking on our big veg box delivery round on several Fridays. Because of this we threw him a special tea-party on his last Thursday with us, which is when we got this photo. Many thanks Ben! We wish you all the best in your new job, and hope to see you soon.

Indoor v. outdoor garlic

We usually plant 5kg of garlic to overwinter in our polytunnels, which is ready to harvest in June or July, but this winter we have also planted the same amount outside in a sheltered bed of the market garden, to see how it does there in comparison. So far there's not much to tell between the two...

Outdoor garlic.

Indoor garlic.