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Welcome to Falmouth's Market Farm

We are a Community Supported Agriculture farm growing tasty and sustainable veggies

We're now reserving places for Spring 2021 through to Winter 2022

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Soul Farm is 3 acre no-dig market farm growing seasonal vegetables in Falmouth, Cornwall

We sell to restaurants in Falmouth and the surrounding area and we’re running a CSA veg box scheme. We’re looking to connect community and growers, so that you know what you’re getting. Labels like organic become irrelevant because you know exactly where your food comes from. Trust is built up, and customers can communicate with the farm and give feedback, it’s a membership, a club and a team.

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March 26, 2021March 26, 2021The farm

Big projects underway

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March 15, 2021March 15, 2021Solidarity.The farm

Solidarity veg boxes: make real food accessible to everyone

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February 11, 2021February 11, 2021The farm

Newsletter 11th of Feb – The farm is growing

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We’ve been prepping a lot of beds recently which

We’ve been prepping a lot of beds recently which has involved cutting plants that have been left to flower. It’s a simple way of promoting the garden’s biodiversity and honouring all of life. Wherever we can, we also leave the roots in the ground to avoid unnecessarily disturbing the mycelium network. Gentle ways of partnering with the space. Image description [rocket is flowering with person in background working]

We’ve sold out for this year’s CSA season! Tha

We’ve sold out for this year’s CSA season! Thank you to all who have chosen to throw their lot in with ours, to connect with your growers in a less conventional, albeit more meaningful way. We’re going to continue to fill more solidarity spots so you can donate through our website or at our Saturday market stall but 24% of our veg shares are already going to low income and solidarity members! We will be pausing for gratitude.

The food is growing! Looking forward to starting o

The food is growing! Looking forward to starting our 2021-2022 CSA veg box scheme next month. Just a few spots left and we’re going to close early so we can focus on other aspects of our work. All out of full shares so just half shares left. Remember “upper” and “highest” tiers help fund our low income and solidarity boxes. Hope you can join us!

Perpetual kale is a wonder. These are our second c

Perpetual kale is a wonder. These are our second cuttings from a plant that Laurence’s dad grew from a cutting from @charles_dowding years ago. No hungry gap for this crop.

Big projects are underway around here. Things we c

Big projects are underway around here. Things we couldn’t have predicted we’d be doing in just year two of making Soul Farm a full time gig. This past year we’ve clarified our vision around agroecology, community and solidarity. We’ve tried new things, sometimes because we were pushed to try them. And we’ve met people who want to see what we’re doing go further. That includes the people behind LEAP, a project of the Real Farming Trust that has given us a game changing grant and loan that have enabled us to do so much more this year than we would have otherwise.

On the ground, we’re currently building a polytunnel and getting planning for two more. Just this weekend we’ve put together a walk-in cooler which hugely opens up what we’re able to do. Just needs a lick of paint. We’re upgrading our irrigation systems, building a washer and spinner for our greens and kitting out a pack station for your freshly harvested veg. So, busy, busy.

But ultimately, what all these activities mean is that we’ll be able to work more efficiently with and take better care of the land, plants and people we partner with. And that allows us to look after our capacity to feed the community and to steward the soil.

The focus of the funding is community. We’ve written about how the funding is helping us to further develop our solidarity veg box and our work with volunteers on our blog. [image description: rows of rocket seedlings next to the polytunnel]

Shungiku! Edible chrysanthemum greens, high in vit

Shungiku! Edible chrysanthemum greens, high in vitamin B complex, vitamin C and iron. We joke that often Laurence chooses what veg to grow based on how aesthetically pleasing it is. You could certainly rest your mind tracing the edges of these leaves. More to the point, shungiku is wonderful for growing in the winter and an exciting addition to the dinner plate. To unlock its show stopping flavours and textures, blanche then sprinkle with soy sauce and sugar or stir fry with the same plus rice vinegar. It’s also used in soups and stews. We’re hoping our CSA veg box members will show us how they’ve used it in our online community group. Anyone else growing shungiku? Even if not, have you cooked with it before?

The food is growing and getting ready to go out in

The food is growing and getting ready to go out into the community. But here in the hungry gap there’s not a lot we can currently harvest on the farm. Our veg boxes for the upcoming season start in mid-May because we want to kick off with an abundance of food we’ve grown rather than with produce we’ve had to buy in from elsewhere. So as a thank you to members for helping us plan ahead by committing to us and hanging tight, we’re offering 10% off all items at the Soul Farm stall at @foodbarn.tregew market on Saturdays until our CSA veg box scheme starts in mid-May. You just need to come say “hi” and show the welcome email you receive from us to someone at the stall - that goes for new sign ups too.

We did our first delivery in our new reusable veg

We did our first delivery in our new reusable veg boxes on Friday, the eve of the spring equinox. Packing these beauties feels like resetting our intentions as we move into a new season in the life of the farm. We still have spots still available for our May 2021 to February 2022 Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) veg box scheme. This is an opportunity for all of us to think about our shared future as people concerned about the earth and about each other, while eating some pretty next-level veg.

Veg grown near your home, using organic principles

Veg grown near your home, using organic principles, is always going to taste better and give your body what it’s asking for. It’s real food. It’s the future of farming. It should be accessible to everyone.

Buzzwords like “ecological” and “organic” can spell “expensive” and put limits on who we think the food is for. But if it’s worth eating and it’s the way we should be farming then we need to build food communities open to anyone who wants to join them. That’s why we run a solidarity veg box scheme.

==How it works==
Solidarity veg boxes are fully funded. The households we deliver them to don’t pay anything. Often these members are people we’ve met through a local food bank or refugee charity. We deliver these boxes directly to their door, aware that lack of transport can make it difficult for some solidarity members to get to our collection points. Our low income boxes are sold below cost price, no questions asked.

We started funding our solidarity boxes with donations a couple of years ago but we’re now entering our second growing season where we fund them through a sliding scale model. If you buy a box on our upper income or highest income tiers, you’re helping us fund low income and solidarity boxes in a more sustainable way.

More than that, anyone who receives our boxes is a full member. We’ve written more about this aspect of our work over on our blog. 📸 @samuelglazebrook #foodforeveryone #sustainablefuture #smallscalefarming [image: palm of a hand cradling tiny seeds]

On International Women’s Day, we’re celebratin

On International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating the women we work with! Half our team are women, two out of five on our board are women, most of our volunteers are women and the farm is what it is because of them. [image description: One of our volunteers broad forking in front of a polytunnel] #iwd2021 #internationalwomensday2021

We’re really busy at this time clearing beds, pu

The farmers protests in India are ongoing and they

The farmers protests in India are ongoing and they continue to be met with human rights abuses as their freedom of protest is denied. We wrote to our local MP today asking him to support India’s farmers by calling the UK government to revise its approach to aid in India, to stop exporting pesticides to India that are banned here in the UK and to raise concerns with the India government and the UN about the human rights crisis taking place. Thanks to the @landworkersalliance and @ravideepkaur_ for points in your templates on what to raise in the letter. For an easy way to write to your MP, visit WritetoThem.com

We realised recently that we hadn’t included our

We realised recently that we hadn’t included our Falmouth collection point on our sign up process on our website for our veg box scheme. Oops! So this is just a little post to make it *very* clear that we are supplying Falmouth in our upcoming Community Supported Agriculture season - May 2021 to February 2022. We have a sliding scale of options for every income. The link is in our bio. Tell your Falmouth friends!

Photo two years ago by @loganirvinemacdougall

We’re in the hungry gap! We’re in the part of

We’re in the hungry gap! We’re in the part of the year where there’s not a lot ready for harvesting on the farm and we’re having to buy a lot in for our boxes. But we’re really proud of the partnerships we’ve made with other farms that share our vision. We see this arrangement as a way of helping each other while keeping you in good veg. But hang tight, we’re looking after the plants and they’ll be looking after all of us.

Packing CSA boxes today and using the last of our

Packing CSA boxes today and using the last of our veg apart from salad. With beds emptying we’re encouraged by being able to sow our fist early carrots in our new low tunnels. We’ll be down at the @foodbarn.tregew as normal despite the weather tomorrow.

The Soul Farm team has grown! Naomi Hannam is our

The Soul Farm team has grown! Naomi Hannam is our new part time grower and on-field volunteer liaison. Alongside gardening, she is a forest school leader, community artist and creative facilitator. We asked her what she likes best about working at Soul Farm and she said: “Work with people that have shared beliefs in growing beautiful, delicious, earth friendly food in a way that nurtures community. That said, I love planting seeds and arriving in the early to pick the BEST salad and edible flowers under the moon.” Get to know Naomi through our interview with her. The link is in our bio.

Soul Farm is hiring! We’re looking for someone f

Soul Farm is hiring! We’re looking for someone friendly and who shares our values to join our team as a Delivery Driver and Market Stand Manager. We’re a small team, a relatively new company, working to make difference and we’re looking to expand our operation quickly this year. The role has a strong human focus, particularly as it involves building face-to-face relationships with our community. The link to the job description is in our bio.

One of the things we did in our little seed blessi

One of the things we did in our little seed blessing was to think about the community these plants will be feeding this year. There are so many levels of interdependence when food is grown in a project like this. The plants need our tending, the community needs feeding and we need the community’s support. It’s more than knowing where food is coming from - there’s an invitation to mindfully connect. The link is in our bio if you’d like to learn more about joining our veg box scheme. PS: the seedlings from the seeds we saved are growing WAY faster than the ones we bought this year.

Candle for fire, singing for air, carefully consid

Candle for fire, singing for air, carefully considered peat-free compost, a quiet moment together beforehand for community and spirit, an apple cake and a 9 year old violinist playing folk songs for JOY. Cornish rain soon made sure we had all the water a first seed sowing of the year could need.

Lots of boxes and bags for our CSA winter veg box

Lots of boxes and bags for our CSA winter veg box scheme and pre-packed boxes for market. We have a range of different options for you tomorrow and you can also pick up salad, kale, radish, chard, carrots, celery, celeriac and other goodies individually. See you tomorrow maybe at @foodbarn.tregew

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