Pearled spelt is a wonderful alternative grain to rice in soups, stews and classic dishes like this comforting risotto. Its nutty flavour and satisfying texture work perfectly with squash, kale and meaty oyster mushrooms.

This simple salad combines creamy flageolet beans - slow cooked in a Wonderbag - with the best of summer’s tomatoes to create the perfect, hearty side dish for a barbecue or dinner party. Alternatively, add some feta or fried halloumi and a slice of crusty bread for a delicious main.

This sweet, smoky chilli is simple to make with a Wonderbag and packed with fibre.

If you are feeling unmotivated to feed your sourdough starter, here’s an incentive: waffles. Orfhlaith Noone keeps a jar in the fridge where she keeps the daily discard and once she has enough she makes a batch of waffles for a weekend breakfast treat.

In a world increasingly aware of energy use and environmental impact, the Wonderbag offers a refreshingly simple solution: slow cooking without electricity. Invented by South African entrepreneur Sarah Collins, the Wonderbag was born out of a need for safe, accessible, and energy-efficient cooking methods in areas with limited fuel or power. Today, it’s used across the world, from off-grid kitchens to eco-conscious households, to cook food gently, slowly, and efficiently.

Have you driven or cycled past our front door and wondered what goes on behind it? On Saturday 21st June we opened our big Bean Store doors for a chance to shop with us in person and have a look behind the scenes. We'll be doing it again.

We mill British-grown wholemeal red millet flour through our stone mill in Suffolk. The crop was grown by Andrew Lingham at Court Farm in Kent and is a species called Panicum miliaceum, a proso millet probably domesticated in what is now northern China 10,000 years ago. But what is millet - or rather, what are millets?

Zofia Page imagines a scenario so absurd it reads like satire – yet, in the current climate, disturbingly plausible, and all too close to the reality of rainforest destruction.