Pulses, Grains, Seeds, Flour & More From British Farms
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British Pulses, Grains & Seeds
British-grown beans, peas, lentils, quinoa, seeds & cereals. From 500g to a tonne or more.
Roasted & Canned Pulses
"Ridiculously moreish" roasted bean & pea snacks and convenient canned pulses.
Pulse, Quinoa & Cereal Flour
Speciality cereal flour and gluten-free fine yellow pea, green pea, fava bean & quinoa flours.
Bean & Barley Ferments
Fermented fava bean umami paste and wholegrain naked barley, packed with rich flavour.
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PI'Y Brazil Nuts
£3.99
| EAT NUTS / SUPPORT THE KAYAPO / SAVE THE FOREST Brazil nuts traded direct from the Kayapó in the Brazilian Amazon. |
The Landworkers' Alliance, Roddick Foundation, Hodmedod and Kayapó-led cooperative COOBA-Y have come together to build a new direct trade relationship in solidarity with the Indigenous fight for survival, bringing wild-harvested nuts directly from the Kayapó people of Brazil to the UK for the first time.
By buying PI'Y - the Kayapó name for Brazil nuts - you’re strengthening the Kayapó people, their culture and the Amazon rainforest they protect and depend on. Trading the nuts provides financial autonomy for around 600 families in over 50 Kayapó villages, and helps protect Indigenous lands - 40 thousand square miles of Amazon rainforest.
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How to use
Ready to eat!
Store in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight.
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Ingredients
Brazil Nuts (100%)
Allergy information
For allergens see ingredients in bold
Please note the Brazil nuts are packed away from Hodmedod's othe products and only handled by our despatch team ready bagged.
Warning
Children can choke on nuts
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Typical values Per 100g (shelled) Energy 2,732kJ (653kcal) Fat 67g of which saturates 15.3g Carbohydrate 5.4g of which sugars 2.3g Fibre 7.3g Protein 14.7g Salt <0.1g -
Product of Brazil, packed in the UK
Suitable for vegans and vegetarians
100% natural
Eat Nuts / Support the Kayapo Cards
Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains
£1.50
Help spread the word about PI-Y Brazil Nuts with these beautiful and compelling Eat Nuts postcards. Send them to all your friends! The more people buy...
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Summer Pulse & Grain Bundle
Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains
£28.25 £28.78
Pulses and grains make superb summer dishes, from salads and hummus to fritters and falafels. Our Summer Pulse & Grain Bundle contains a range of pulses...
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Wakelyns Bakery Selection Box
£14.30
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Order freshly baked bread to be dispatched on the day selected above* and dispatched on the same day for next-day delivery. Orders for Wednesday dispatch must be placed by 8am on the Monday. We'll send your full order on your chosen baking day. |
This selection showcases the three sourdough loaves baked for us by Henrietta Inman at the Wakelyns Bakery.
The four loaves are slow fermented with the Wakelyns sourdough starter and baked fresh to order each week. Sourdough bread keeps beautifully and freezes very well.
Wakelyns Sourdough Tin Loaf
Wakelyns Bakery make bread with YQ and varietal wheat. This 100% wholegrain loaf has deep, complex flavours; walnutty and aromatic. It keeps beautifully and, like all the loaves in the selection box, will freeze well.
Wakelyns Seeded Sourdough Tin Loaf
This loaf celebrates beautiful seed diversity and the farmers who integrate it into their work every day, making use of some of Hodmedod's many vibrant and varied seeds – chia, camelina, linseed, naked oats, rapeseed, wild mustard, hemp and coriander - grown on UK farms.
Wakelyns Rye Sourdough Tin Loaf
This beautiful dark rye loaf keeps really well for about 10 days. It’s rich, soft and with a deep flavour from the sourdough fermentation process and the freshly milled grains. Enjoy it with everything from butter and jam to smoked fish and cheese.
*Add the selection to your basket and complete your order as usual. A small number loaves will be baked to order every week. Orders for Wednesday dispatch must be received by 8am on the Monday.
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Ingredients
Wakelyns YQ Sourdough Tin: Wheat Flour (100% stoneground wholegrain), Water, Salt
Wakelyns Seeded Sourdough Tin Loaf: Wheat Flour (100% stoneground wholegrain), Water, Naked Oats, Linseed, Hemp, Rapeseed, Mustard, Coriander Seeds, Chia Seeds, Camelina Seeds, Sprouted Lentils, Sea Salt
Wakelyns Rye Sourdough Tin Loaf: Rye Flour (100% stoneground wholegrain), Water, YQ Wheat Flour (used in the sourdough starter), Salt
For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold.
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Suitable for vegans and vegetarians
Red Wheat Flakes
Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains
£2.99
There’s more to wheat than flour and bread. Different varieties of this staple cereal have distinctive characteristics while flaked wheat makes a versatile ingredient in sweet and savoury dishes. This beautiful red variety, introduced to the UK by the British Quinoa Company, has a high level of anti-oxidant anthocyanins, a red-brown colour and light nutty flavour.
Light and nutty red wheat flakes are beautiful and delicious in muesli, granola or flapjacks. Try sprinkling toasted on salads, baking, or adding to soups & stews for flavour and texture.
Red Wheat grown in Shropshire by Edward Jones.
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Black Barley Flakes
Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains
£2.99
Barley is a fantastic crop, ideal for low input farming systems, and a delicious and versatile ingredient. This distinctive dark variety, introduced to the UK by the British Quinoa Company, has a high level of anti-oxidant anthocyanins, giving it a rich purple-black colour and sweet nutty flavour.
Rich and malty black barley flakes are a delicious addition to muesli or granola. They’re also great toasted and sprinkled on salads, for baking, or to thicken and add flavour to soups and stews.
Black Barley grown in Lincolnshire by Mike Neaverson.
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Black Barley, Wholegrain
Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains
£2.99
Barley is a fantastic crop, ideal for low input farming systems, and a delicious and versatile ingredient. This distinctive dark variety, introduced to the UK by the British Quinoa Company, has a high level of anti-oxidant anthocyanins, giving it a rich purple-black colour.
These beautiful purple-black whole barley grains have a sweet nutty flavour and hold their colour when cooked. Cook as a side dish, add to soups and stews, or use in salads. Black barley is also good for home milling and baking.
The grains can be cooked and eaten whole, or milled at home (we recommend using a Mockmill) for flavoursome and nutritious flour.
Grown in Lincolnshire by Mike Neaverson.
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Add cooked black barley - or if cooking time allows, dry grains - to soups, stews and casseroles. Add cooked or toasted grains to salads.
Mill uncooked naked barley grains to produce a tasty and versatile flour.
Cooking instructions
Cook like brown rice for a wholegrain ingredient as a side dish or to use in salads, soups and stews. Rinse, bring to the boil then simmer until tender (about 45 minutes). Speed up cooking by pre-soaking for a few hours.
Alternatively, break in a blender or mortar, soak overnight and use in baking. Mill for flour or sprout and use whole in baking..
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Ingredients
Black Barley (Gluten)
Allergy information
For allergens, see ingredients in bold
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Typical values Per 100g, raw wholegrain barley Energy 1314kJ (312kcal) Fat 2.7g of which saturates 1.4g Carbohydrate 48.2g of which sugars 0.7g Fibre 20g Protein 13.7g Salt <0.01g -
Suitable for vegans and vegetarians
Whole Coral Lentils
Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains
£3.79
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Coral lentils are back! We're excited to have more of these superb lentils, from a crop grown and harvested in Norfolk in 2022. If split these would be typical red lentils but these are a traditional French variety best eaten whole. |
Back in the late summer of 2017 we harvested the first commercial crop of British-grown lentils at Wakelyns Agroforestry after several years of trials, an experimental mixture of varieties - a mottled green lentil (the same variety as is grown in Le Puy-en-Velay, in France) and a gun-metal grey lentil (also widely grown in France).
We're now working with a growing network of British farmers growing whole olive and coral lentils.
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Our Coral Lentils have a superb peppery, nutty flavour and firm texture. They're great in soups, stews, curries and salad.
Cooking instructions
Rinse the lentils in a sieve, check for small stones, and place in a pan with plenty of fresh water water. Bring to the boil, simmer for 15 to 20 minutes until tender.
Don't over-cook - taste the lentils toward the end of the cooking process. To make a salad or a cold lentil dish drench the lentils in cold water immediately after cooking, this will stop them cooking further and ensure they stay nice and firm.
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Ingredients
Lentils
Allergy information
May contain wheat grains. Lentils are naturally gluten free, however they are grown and harvested with equipment that also handles cereals containing gluten.
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Typical values Per 100g Energy 1395kJ (325kcal) Fat 1.5g of which saturates 0.2g Carbohydrate 47.6g of which sugars 2.9g Fibre 15.5g Protein 21.8g Salt 0.02g
Suitable for vegans and vegetarians
Sheaf: Harvest 2022
Our second collection of regenerative stories about grains, pulses, seeds and the farmers that grow them
Pea & Bean Dhebra
Smoked Quinoa, Chickpea & Greens Salad
Falafel with Seaweed
Toasted Seeds, Chickpeas & Nuts with Shony Seaweed
Hodmedod’s Gift Vouchers
Give the choice of our pulses, grains & seeds - now with a little extra gift too
Eat Nuts / Support the Kayapo / Save the Forest
Biodiversity in & around arable fields at Green Acres
With 72% of UK land managed for agriculture, farming as a key role to play in protecting and even restoring biodiversity. Thankfully more farms are showing how this can be done both within and around productive land. The organic fields at Green Acres Farm in Shropshire are filled with diversity.
Tomatoes, turnips, pulses and the hungry gap
Supermarket shelves empty of tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, and other out-of-season vegetables in recent weeks betray our precarious food system. A mirage of abundance hides a fragile system of imported foods, just-in-time supply chains, and fossil fuel dependence.
Wholegrain Organic Cereals
From naked barley to YQ wheat, our flaked grains are perfect for baking or breakfasting
Some of our Favourite Products
British Chickpeas
Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains
£3.79
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The harvest 2022 chickpeas are in! And we think these are the best looking and best eating UK chickpeas we've ever had. These delicious and tender chickpeas are the harvest of the fourth year of British production. Grown just outside Norwich in Norfolk, the weather has been especially kind to them - they ripened early and harvest was much more straightforward than in previous years. |
Norfolk farmer Henry Raker harvested the first ever field-scale crop of British chickpeas on his Breckland farm in 2019. This year's crop was grown on a different farm (just outside Norwich) and harvested almost a month earlier than we've managed in previous years. Packed and ready for sale this is the best tasting crop we've ever had.
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Flanders Wheat Flour, Stoneground Wholemeal
Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains
£3.99
| Once popular with millers and bakers, Flanders is quite unlike any other British wheat, being soft but with good bread making qualities. |
Flanders is a winter-sown medium-straw wheat, grown in Britain in the 1970s and 80s but now almost extinct.
Our Flanders flour is stone-milled in small batches through our own stone mill at the Hodmedod Mill House in Suffolk, from Flanders variety wheat grown by Jeremy Dickin at Oak Farm in Lincolnshire.
Stoneground and wholemeal it retains its full nutrients and flavour and is ideal for baking, pastry and cakes.
Protein: 13.12%
Hagberg: 283
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Stoneground wholegrain Flanders variety wheat flour is an excellent soft but quality flour, perfect for biscuits and pastries, it can also be used for bread making, especially baguettes (after all it is of French ancestry).
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Ingredients
Wheat Flour
Allergy information
For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold.
- The nutritional figures below are for generic wholemeal flour.
Typical values
(generic wholemeal flour)Per 100g Energy 1409kJ (337kcal) Fat 2.3g of which saturates 0.6g Carbohydrate 59.4g of which sugars 2.7g Fibre 9.5g Protein 12.4g Salt 0.01g -
- Suitable for vegans and vegetarians
- Naturally high fibre and low fat
- No artificial ingredients
- GM free
- Recyclable paper packaging
Botanical Flour - #2 Meadow Blend
£5.99
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14 grains, seeds, pulses and flowers reflecting the diversity of crop and wild plants one might find in and by a field. This is a freshly milled flour, ready to use in your bread and bakes. Botanical Blend #2 is also available as a grist of whole grains &c for home milling. PLEASE NOTE: Our speciality flours are freshly milled in small batches. Depending on our milling schedule orders including speciality flour are generally delivered in 2-5 working days but on occasion may take up to 10 working days. |
Created by Vanessa Kimbell of the Sourdough School and blended here at the Bean Store from grains and seeds grown by UK farmers, this botanical base mix is designed for use in sweet and savoury sourdough baking.
Originally available as a blend of whole grains, seeds and flowers for home milling, Botanical Blend No, 2 is now available as flour, fresh from the Hodmedod mill.
Botanical Blend No. 2 is the first of several blends we plan to offer, all are the culmination of years of research by Vanessa into the workings of the gut microbiome, the process of wild yeast fermentation and the art of baking for flavour and nutrition. They reflect the diversity we need to see in fields and in our diets.
Any home baker can mill and add the blend to their bakes, bringing extra fragrance, flavour and nutrition. However, the blend is best used in conjunction with The Sourdough School: Sweet Baking which can be bought separately or with the blend, either way including a free £5 Hodmedod voucher.
The Sourdough School: Botanical Blends information sheet is available as a free pdf download.
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This mix has been created for home baking. Use as plain wholemeal flour for greater diversity and breadth of flavour in your baking.
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Ingredients
Spelt, Einkorn, Emmer, Rye, Barley, Naked Oats, Poppy Seeds, Buckwheat, Linseed, Peas, Nettle, Cornflower, Rose Petal, Mallow Flower
Allergy advice
For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold.
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Typical values Per 100g Energy 1,455kJ (339kcal) Fat 3.6g of which saturates 0.5g Carbohydrate 40.1g of which sugars 1.2g Fibre 11.2g Protein 15.4g Salt <0.02g -
Suitable for vegans and vegetarians
Wakelyns Sourdough Tin Loaf
£4.50
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Order freshly baked bread to be dispatched on the day selected above* for next-day delivery. Orders for Wednesday dispatch must be placed by 8am on the Monday.
We'll send your full order on your chosen dispatch day. |
Wakelyns Bakery at Wakelyns Organic Agroforestry produces very small batches of wholegrain bread, just enough for us to offer a few of their sustaining loaves, which have a complex nutty flavour and keep beautifully, through our website.
Henrietta Inman, who founded this unique field to loaf bakery, describes their work and the bread they bake with organic flour milled from grain grown on the farm:
We bake, cook and create at Wakelyns Organic Agroforestry farm. Agroforestry, integrating alleys of trees between alleys of crops, is an incredibly diverse and therefore resilient and productive way of farming and food production. It is also very delicious and beautiful. We make use of the whole agroforestry system in our bakery kitchen, demonstrating the abundance of ingredients we have all around us.
Our wholegrain sourdough bread is made with a diversity of local grains, including the revolutionary YQ population wheat grown in the crop alleys and at Turners of Bytham in Lincolnshire, where Edgar wheat is also grown for the bread. At Wakelyns we save and sow the wheat seeds, harvest, mill and bake them here on the farm. We use timber from the tree alleys and solar panels outside the bakery to power our two wood-fired and electric ovens. Wholegrain flours contain all the goodness of flavour and nutrition from the whole grain of wheat. None of the grain goes to waste in the milling process. Sourdough, naturally leavened bread, is good for our guts and overall health. The fermentation process increases the nutrients available and creates very flavourful loaves, which we really hope you enjoy!
We love our tin loaf toasted in the morning with local Fen Farm Dairy butter and jam made with fruits from the tree alleys; it’s great for sandwiches too and everything really. It keeps very well wrapped in the white paper it arrives in for at least 7 days. If it’s drying out, refresh it by dipping it in water and putting it back in the oven.
To find out more about us and what we do, please visit our website – www.wakelyns.co.uk/bakery
*Add the loaf to your basket and complete your order as usual. A small number loaves will be baked to order every week. Orders for Wednesday dispatch must be received by 8am on the Monday.
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Ingredients
Wheat Flour (100% organic wholegrain), Water, Salt
Organic rapeseed oil is used to line the tins.
Allergy information
For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold.
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Suitable for vegetarians and vegans
Sheaf: Harvest 2022
£5.99
Buy our second collection of regenerative stories about pulses, grains and the farmers that grow them, with beautiful colour photographs and illustrations, and we'll throw...
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Olive Green Lentils
Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains
£3.29
| Tasty, versatile and easy to cook, these whole olive green lentils don’t need soaking and add a superb rich, nutty flavour to soups, stews and salads. |
We began trialling lentils in the UK in 2015 and had our first commercial harvest in 2018. Now we work with a small group of farmers in Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire and Sussex, all of whom are working to create more diverse, regenerative farming systems.
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Liberty Fields Apple Syrup
£7.00
| Dorset's answer to maple syrup, Liberty Fields' Apple Syrup is a luxuriously rich and intense natural sweetener, made only from the apples of their orchards. |
Liberty Fields produce small batches of superb syrup, balsamic vinegar, cider and vodka by hand from the fruit of their own Dorset apple orchards, planted from 2010.
The syrup contains no additives, chemicals, fining agents or sugar. Over 2kg apples go into each bottle.
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How to use
Use as a sweetener, like maple syrup. Delicious with pancakes, yoghurt porridge, ice cream, French toast and more. Mix with sparkling water or lemonade to make a non-alcoholic summer cup, or use as a sweetener in cooking.
To store
For best before date see pack. Store in a cool, dry place. Refrigerate after opening and use within 6 weeks
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Ingredients
Apples
Allergy information
No allergens. Free from sulphites.
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Typical values Per 100g Energy 1071kJ (252kcal) Fat 0.0g of which saturates 0.0g Carbohydrate 62.9g of which sugars* 52.8g Protein 0.1g Salt 0.0g -
Product of Dorset
Suitable for vegans and vegetarians
Kombu Kelp Strips
£4.49
| The original source of umami, the "fifth flavour" first identified in 1908, whole-leaf kombu / kelp adds a superb deep rich flavour to broths, soups and stocks. Kombu can improve digestion and helps to soften pulses and grains during both soaking and cooking. |
Kombu kelp strips provide a naturally smooth flavour enhancer and are used to infuse broths, stocks and soups. They're especially highly prized in Japanese cuisine and are the key ingredient of dashi stock, which translates 'savoury deliciousness' and provides a pure umami hit.
Mara Seaweed is harvested sustainably from the pure, wild waters around Scotland and Ireland. To avoid contamination, the seaweed is packed into sealed sacks before being brought up the beach and delivered fresh, directly to the factory. Mara Seaweed is picked and processed within 24 hours to lock in flavour, ensure quality and secure maximum nutritional benefits.
Kombu and kelp are both names for the brown seaweed Laminaria digitata.
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How to use
Use Kombu Kelp Strips during cooking, and take out before serving. Think of them as the stock cubes of the sea. Whether you’re making traditional lentil soup or dashi stock for ramen, kelp is a fantastic natural flavour enhancer.
A strip of Kombu will soften grains and pulses, and give stews and sauces body. Try it when soaking dried beans for an unbeatable depth of flavour.
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Ingredients
100% Pure Kelp (Laminaria digitata)
Allergy information
May contain fish, crustaceans, molluscs.
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Typical values Per 100g Energy 1,178kJ (275kcal) Fat 0.4g
of which saturates 0.1g Carbohydrate 44.9g of which sugars 0.2g Fibre 22.1g Protein 11.8g Salt 7.0g -
Suitable for vegans and vegetarians
A source of iodine, calcium, potassium, magnesium, manganese, copper, iron,zinc
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British-grown Hemp
Whole & Shelled Hemp Seed, Coarse & Fine Flour, Hemp Oil, Hemp Tea