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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.

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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.

As we spend more time with dawn skies, we recharge

As we spend more time with dawn skies, we recharge our head torches for harvests. The leaves on the tree leaves start pattering on the tin barn roof. The squash appears from the jungle of leaves. Things are starting to slow down.

We’ve had fun today showing small groups of our

We’ve had fun today showing small groups of our CSA members around the garden. It’s a really important part of connecting people to their food. See some more of you tomorrow.

Beneath the tomatoes lie marigolds and Agretti. We

Can’t believe we’ve just done week 18 of the C

Can’t believe we’ve just done week 18 of the CSA! And we went early this year because of lockdown, so really it’s 22 weeks of veg boxes. Kale going strong. Thanks to @oli.riley for the 📷

And our winter veg CSA scheme is 🔥OPEN🔥 We’re doing things a little differently this time around. Generous donations in the current season have enabled us to give memberships to contacts through the food bank and to local refugee families. Thank you so much if you’ve been involved! For our winter sign ups, we are introducing a SLIDING SCALE pricing model to help us work with you to move towards food justice as a community. The idea is that those who pay at the higher tier will help fund shares for households experiencing food poverty. We’re hoping that this will allow us (and you!) to stand in solidarity with even more people who need improved access to nutritious, soul-warming veg. Income shouldn’t be an obstacle to eating real food. Our winter scheme runs from November to March and we’ll deliver every other week to allow the food to grow. We’re looking forward to updating you on what’s going in the ground! Now that we’re opening up sign ups, second spring is in full swing! Sign up through the link in our bio.

A hot harvest day today which will be offset by a

A hot harvest day today which will be offset by a more drizzly second half of the CSA harvest tomorrow. Hot harvest days involve slightly different strategies such as harvesting spinach in smaller batches and rushing it into the shade and aqua cooling straight away. All our salad is harvested before the heat comes up meaning we retain all the water and crunch, and for the first time the sprinkler timer was in operation, giving the leaves a drink at 3am. We noticed the difference enormously and hopefully your salad will last a nice long time.

This weeks small box had large bag of salad, loose beetroot, courgette, cucumber, kale, spinach and coriander. Larges have bigger bags of spinach, carrot bunch and snack carrots, beetroot bunch and either French beans or fennel and Riverford potatoes and onions.

Curly, Red Russian and Nero. We tend to mix them f

Curly, Red Russian and Nero. We tend to mix them for shops to offer something a bit different. We’ve been noticing some issues on the farm over the past few days, generally linked to the strange weather conditions we’ve had this year. So it’s got us talking about how we continue to listen in our gardening to learn what this unique space needs. This is the season for physical speed and yet we still have to make decisions which require quiet minds and steady hearts. Having not figured out all the problems, which feel like they keep coming, this isn’t work for the faint but it’s also work that keeps growing the grower.

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