Ways to Cook With Carlins

When you buy the Kayapó's PI'Y Brazil nuts, you’re doing more than experiencing a (delicious!) taste of the Amazon rainforest. Each purchase has significant agency attached to it. It acts as a vote for a more just, sustainable system, contributing to the financial independence necessary for the Kayapó to continue their commitment to protecting the rainforest. We call it Solidarity Trade.

James Bucher grows carlin peas for us at Hall Farm in Knettishall on the Suffolk-Norfolk border as a mixed bi-crop and with no pesticides or synthetic fertiliser, one element in his transformation of the farm from intensive input-reliant production to working with the soil and nature.

Read the chapter on the history of beans from Pen Vogler's Stuffed: A History of Good Food and Hard Times in Britain. Now out in paperback, Stuffed tells the stories of the food and drink at the centre of social upheavals from prehistory to the present.