This week’s box, we’re still in the Hungry Gap:
- Spring cabbage
200g Swiss chard
- 125g small beetroot
- 125g beetroot leaves
- 125g salad leaves
- 150g sprouting broccoli
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Second week of May, Sixth week of the “Hungry Gap”
In the boxes this week, still in the hungry gap:
- 2 small lettuces
- 180g spinach
- 200g Swiss chard
- 100g bunch of radishes
- 150g sprouting broccoli
- spring cabbage
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First week of May, fifth week of “the Hungry Gap”
In the boxes this week, still in the hungry gap:
- 200g Swiss chard
- Spring cabbage
- 60g radishes
-150g sprouting brocolli or a cauliflower
- lettuce
- 100g salad leaves
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Fourth week of April, fourth week of “the hungry gap”
In the veg boxes this week, fourth week of the hungry gap:
- 2 lettuces
- 1 spring cabbage
- a cauliflower or 140g sprouting broccoili
- 200g spinach or 250g Swiss chard
- 60g radish or 100g salad leaf or 60g spring onion
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Third week of April, third week of the “Hungry Gap”
In the box this week, third week of the hungry gap:
- a lettuce
- a spring cabbage
- 60g bunch radishes
- 100g mixed salad leaves
- 140g sprouting broccoli
- 250g beetroot leaves (cook like Swiss chard)
Along with three of the following items:
- 200g Swiss chard
- 180g spinach
- cauliflower
- 120g rocket leaves
- 300g beetroot
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CSA Public Meeting 7th April 2012
We have a great turnout for the CSA public meeting on Saturday 7th April, and the last of our Community Supported Agriculture Places for a veg box from June 2012 – May 2013 were subscribed to.
Joanne telling the story of The Oak Tree CSA
Kirsty describes life as a CSA member
New CSA members Viola and Mosaic explore the polytunnels
The chickens turn shy!
Second week of April, and second week of the “Hungry Gap”
In the box this week, the second week of the Hungry Gap
- Spring cabbage
- 180g sprouting broccoli
- 200g Swiss chard or a cauliflower
- Sprig of bay
- 350g beetroot
- lettuce
- 50g radishes
- 120g salad leaves
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Is Lesley planning to tunnel to Australia?
You can never be sure what CSA member Lesley is planning next… in fact, she isn’t planning to save on airfares and carbon emissions by tunneling to Australia. She is, in fact, starting work on The Oak Tree wood fired clay oven. This is her digging the hole for the foundations.
Now, this will be no ordinary oven as Lesley is a talented sculptor and there is talk of her sculpting our new oven into the shape of an acorn and its leaf… how fantastic!
It’ll take a few weeks to build as each layer of clay has to dry out before we can fire it up! Watch this space, or rather hole – if you come up to the farm soon you may well be roped into helping with the construction (though remember the CSA rule that no-one has to do a job they don’t want to!) Or if you hang on a while you may just find yourself eating pizza 
The Hungry Gap – April and May when veg are scarce in the UK
We’ve just begun the “hungry gap”, the traditional time when veg was scarce in the UK because the winter veg had run our and the early summer veg hadn’t got started. I had been pretty worried about this time when we set up our Community Supported Agriculture scheme. Eating with the seasons is great in August, and not bad in December, but April and May can be a real challenge.
After this week, we will run out of leeks and carrots, but I am glad to say that we do still have quite a few crops that are doing well outside, despite the dry weather, and our polytunnels are serving us very well, yielding spinach, salad leaves and radishes. Indeed our first box of the hungry gap is testament to the hard work of everyone in the CSA – well done all!
Our first box of the Hungry Gap