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Onions donated to Winter Comfort Cafe: Food 4 Food

Winston at Food 4 Food  When we heard about the fantastic Food4Food cafe run by local Cambridge charity Winter Comfort, we knew they’d be a perfect place to donate some onions! With their base at  St Andrews Hall, Chesterton , they serve lunch form Mon – Fri, and also do catering. From their website: “WinterComfort supports those who are homeless or at risk of losing their homes by offering basic amenities, opportunities for educational development and recreation, and a range...
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Onions donated to local Cambridge charity Emmaus

We’re busy these days donating our onions to local charities. Having had a great time at Foodcycle last weekend, I dropped off 20 kg of lovely onions at Emmaus today. Sure the chefs there will cook up a treat for everyone in the Emmaus Landbeach community! Mel at Emmaus posing with onions! Enjoy them! As well as being a fab second hand shop, Emmaus does great work providing jobs for previously homeless people. Check out their website and...
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Lambing time, planning time

We had a quick visit to the farm this Saturday, and ended up feeding a young lamb. Lovely! There are more ewes sheltering in the polytunnel that are waiting to give birth.We need to use the onions left in the store as quickly as possible now, so we bagged up some more to distribute to local charities this week.Then we sat down to plan this year’s Cropshare- I’ll give you more details as soon...
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Great onion feast at Cambridge Foodcycle

Busy lunchtime- serving up the pea and onion omelette So what did Foodcycle create with our onions?  I joined in the brilliant Foodcycle team this Saturday to cook up about 15kg of our lovely onions, harvested Sept 2011 by our hardworking volunteers. With piles of donated food from local businesses, and our onions, the head chef Sam had lots to play with. Check out Sam being interviewed on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire here (starts at 1 hour 50...
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Cropshare onions in a Foodcycle feast

 Saturday 4th Feb 12:30pm  The Centre at St Paul’s, Hills Road, Cambridge., CB2 1JP Cambridge, United Kingdom In 2011, Cropshare volunteers had loads of fun and grew a bumper onion harvest in partnership with a local organic farm. Now our Cropshare onion harvest is being put to good use: we’ve donated plenty to local foodwaste-fighting charity Foodcycle. We love their work- check them out here. Foodcycle use reclaimed food surplus from local Cambridge businesses to...
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Tea and Rabbits – Fencing in the Fen

Thanks to Cropshare volunteer Ivan for this great write-up! A bright sunny winter Saturday, what to do?  With just 14 shopping days before Christmas does one “shop till one drops” Grand Arcade stylee or……..?   Nope…….let’s go fencing.  So with a bunch of other “Onion Cropsharers” we popped up to Lode on the edge of the Cambridgeshire Fen.  There we planned the day with Paul and Doreen– our organic farmers – and drank some tea.  The plan...
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Farm Bird Survey 2011

Only just got round to putting a bird survey up on here done by CropShare volunteer Iain in Summer 2011. Glad to hear the farm supports many rare red list birds.  Also a good place to note there is a new album out by all of the birds listed below, and more. Let’s get it to Xmas...
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Transition Cafe night with Hempsals Community Farm

We held a fun information evening at one of the regular Transition Cafe nights in CB1 on Mill Road with another Cambridgeshire Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project. We invited the brilliant Hempsals Community Farm to help us talk about the many benefits of CSA, and answer questions from a very interested audience. We heard how both CSAs had grown and were providing food and fun for their communities. Thanks to Hempsals for joing us and...
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Prizewinning Cropshare onions at Cambridge Food and Garden Festival

Second prize! We had a great time at the Transition Cambridge Food Group stall at Cambridge Food and Garden Festival.  As well as chatting to people about our community farming project, we were braiding our onions and teaching others how to too! In a great finish to the day, our onions won second prize. Thanks to all our volunteers who came to lend a hand....
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Community Supported Agriculture conference- Bristol

Commmunity Supported Agriculture, or CSA, is the name of the game here at Cambridge Cropshare. There’s many different forms of CSA, but our project works by bringing volunteers of all veggie-growing abilities onto an existing local farm to help with everyday farm tasks. Our volunteers are rewarded with a share of the crop we produce together at harvest. There was plenty of information on existing CSAs in the UK and beyond  Two Cropshare members were able...
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