Soul Farm — Falmouths' Market Farm - Soul Farm

info@soulfarm.co.uk

CSA
FAQ

Menu

Home
Journal
The Farm >
Join us >

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

Join our CSA

Our farm and practices

Soul Farm is 1.5 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.

Be the first to hear about membership openings, news and happenings on the farm

List choice Soul Farm Restarants Soul Farm Consumer List Chasing Wilderness Newsletter

Email address:

Leave this field empty if you're human:

The Journal

Latest posts

amy-bullock-PHO211-soul-farm-nov-20-LR-3-ls copy

January 21, 2021January 21, 2021CSA.Newsletter

Newsletter 21st of Jan — Get through winter together – honouring rhythms

Read More

Garlic

January 14, 2021January 18, 2021CSA.The farm

Newsletter 14th of Jan — Veg box extras, mindful farming, food with heart

Read More

_MG_0950

January 6, 2021January 6, 2021The farm

Newsletter 7th of Jan — Eat your greens – and other hopeful things

Read More

Stay up to date

soul.farm

We saved some seeds this year and, having rushed t

We saved some seeds this year and, having rushed to get a seed order in before Brexit, we’re so conscious that we need to extend this part of our work. The more we work with the land, the more we learn to respect these smallest of miracles.

#seedweek21
Image: Agretti seed hanging from polytunnel

Extra, extra! 😂 You can now add extras to your

Lots of yummy veg from the Soul Farm team tomorrow

Lots of yummy veg from the Soul Farm team tomorrow at the @foodbarn.tregew. We also have bread, eggs from @stmaweshens @locavore_cic and @hodmedods cans @gathered.botanicals and lots more. Come and see us 9 to 1.

We had our first team meeting of the year on the f

We had our first team meeting of the year on the farm this morning. It was our first as a team of four and we talked about how so much has accidentally come together over the past year. In many ways, we’re always feeling our way and this morning was even more so as we were considering plans and expecting change. The work here carries on, albeit at a slower winter’s pace, and we’re sending you love from where we stand.

After a great first week we’re back tomorrow for

After a great first week we’re back tomorrow for our second market at the @foodbarn.tregew. We were blown away about how many people turned up last Saturday!

Tomorrow we’re bringing you our famous salad, kale, the first of our cabbages and also some cabbages and cauliflower from an organic farm in Penzance. Our own turnips, beets, onions and squash. As well as some Riverford leeks, sprouts, mushrooms and parsnips.

Lots of other basics to luxuries from us and other sellers: coffee to oysters to refill goods. You could almost do a full shop with us!

Come and stock up 9 till 1.

Pick up some good food this Saturday! We and our u

In this last stretch of Giving Tuesday and opener

In this last stretch of Giving Tuesday and opener to December, remember you can help us make food accessible to all by joining next year’s CSA veg box scheme (the link is in our bio). We operate on a sliding payment scale. Those who join the “upper” and “higher” income brackets will help us fund shares for people in Cornwall experiencing food poverty. And every membership helps keep us going.

Another gift of our CSA veg box scheme is a connec

Another gift of our CSA veg box scheme is a connection to where your food comes from. Yes you’re reducing your food miles but you’re also getting to know your farmers. CSA members can always pop us a message to ask questions and offer suggestions. We also have a CSA members group on Facebook where we share recipe ideas and share some of what’s happening in the field. By connecting with us this way, you’re supporting small farming and partnering with us as part of the solution to environmental devastation. We are committed to practices that capture and store carbon, and to encouraging biodiversity. The future is small when it comes to food production. 📷 @amsbullock [images: 1. Laurence is in the walled garden holding a crate of kale, 2. Ian is in the poly tunnel trellising tomatoes, 3. Adele is the field mulching with green waste]

Our CSA veg box scheme gives you more variety. Gra

Our CSA veg box scheme gives you more variety. Granted there will come certain points in the season where we’ll need to collectively get creative about what to do with all that kale. We have ideas but so do you and that’s where our CSA member Facebook group comes into its own. But we do make the effort to grow a wide variety of produce, partly because monoculture doesn’t fit with the way we’re farming – it’s a drain on the soil. Different things grow at different parts of the season and with each other at different times. So buying hyperlocal may encourage you at times to get experimental in the kitchen and learn about new vegetables. At the same time, the CSA box decides what your ingredients for the week are, freeing up headspace and encouraging you to eat the food your body is seasonally asking for.

[image: bed of chard, parsley and salad brassicas through the slightly open door of the glasshouse, the light coming in through the windows]

📸 @jaysmith23_

People often ask us whether the varieties we’re

People often ask us whether the varieties we’re growing are unusual. Some of them are but mostly that alive flavour you’re being hit with is just how a carrot or lettuce is actually supposed to taste.

Food bought from big organic veg box schemes, let alone supermarkets, often aren’t that fresh. They’ve already spent potentially weeks in storage. By the time they get to your plate, they just don’t taste the way they should. Taste is an indicator of nutritional value when it comes to vegetables. When they’re not that tasty, they’re also not that nutrient dense. A lot is lost in-transit.

By choosing food that is hyperlocal to the Falmouth area of Cornwall, you’re not only eating the best that nature can give you but you’re also eating with the seasons. Seasonal eating puts you in touch with what’s happening in the world around you so you can start to understand the relationship between the time of year and what you put into your body.

This is reason 2 of 5 to join our CSA To read the other reasons, hit the link in our bio.

Reason 1 of 5 to join our CSA 1. You come first

We recently did a questionnaire to see which items

We recently did a questionnaire to see which items people preferred for their CSA boxes.

Spinach surprised us as being popular so we’re going to major on that. Carrots and microgreens people loved. And also, as expected tomatoes, kale and spring onions are popular as regular items.

Beetroot, courgette, cucumber and fennel are popular as every now and then items. While Salad turnips, Tokyo turnips and Kohl Rabi people could live without. We will maybe do these once or twice a season for those that like experiments.

We plan to grow more of the same with exciting additions of tender stem broccoli, snap peas, peppers, cabbage and celery.

The salad mix will remain the heart and soul of the box.

Hit the link in our bio to sign up for a box next year.

We’ve just done the first of our winter veg boxe

Registration is now open for our 2021 Weekly CSA m

The ritual of sorting the cloves from the bulbs gi

The ritual of sorting the cloves from the bulbs gives good time of community. And 4 us powered through it in no time.

80m of garlic now planted. They’re where the tomatoes were as we’re able to move our mobile polytunnels (or caterpillar tunnels) off those beds and onto beds of lettuce/rocket and mustards for winter and spring. Photo @jaysmith23_

So, the winter CSA starts in November. Yesterday a

So, the winter CSA starts in November. Yesterday a six-year-old friend blew our minds by telling us that his birthday (Bonfire Night) is in three weeks! How’s that possible? 🎆🔥. 📷 @oli.riley

We’ve done it. The last deliveries of our summer

We’ve done it. The last deliveries of our summer CSA went out today. Thank you so much for joining us or sticking with us through these extremely strange few months. Like many other businesses, the pandemic dealt us a blow early in the year and together we had to scale things up fast. Not only did you help us do that but you even helped us share the harvest with others struggling to access food. We hope that our veg has been both a reassuring and an enjoyable addition to your week.

This weeks large box was full of: Fennel Autumn S

This weeks large box was full of:
Fennel
Autumn Salad mix
Spring onions
Red Russian kale
Carrots
Beets
Leek (Riverford)
Squash
Courgette
Cucumbers
Chives
Radish
Apart from the leeks all produce from Soul Farm, grown in Cornwall. Fresh, local, spray free and grown in living soil.

An unspoken rule of young businesses is to work ev

An unspoken rule of young businesses is to work every hour given. And we could. There’s more than enough work to do. But we try not to because we always want to put people first. Looking back this year, having to scale up as quickly as we did, we haven’t always achieved balance but we really have worked hard to make sure we weren’t always working.

The summer CSA season is winding down and we’ve

The summer CSA season is winding down and we’ve been busy preparing for winter veg boxes. To go from one straight into the other leaves us strained, staring into a winter where there’s a lot of pushing through to do.

Listing all the things we’re worried about is easy. Will it all grow well enough? Will we have to buy more in? Will we make ends meet? What will these months look like without the usual markers?

But this is more than a business. This is learning to live with land. How could we head into another season without a pause to notice all the good things these months gave us? The food we grew, the space for the mind to rest, the many things we learned, the people we’ve met, and the small community that’s growing up around this project. We pause to reflect and to give thanks. We also pause to notice the seeds planted for the future: the work we are doing and the work to be done. We keep going but we *must* pause.

Load More... Follow on Instagram

Soul Farm TM is registered is a trading name of Soul Farm Produce CIC Copyright © 2021 All Rights Reserved