by Josiah Meldrum
May 10, 2020
It goes without saying that we #Loveulses, but we have a particular soft spot for peas. Not only versatile, delicious and well adapted to our climate, but beautiful in the field and after harvest. We're certain these fabulous new pink
Flamingo Peas will win many more fans for peas.
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by William Hudson
April 14, 2020
The 2019/20 winter must have been one one the most challenging UK farming has had to endure for many years. We've recently had the wettest period of weather on record with particularly severe flooding affecting the North and West. But even in the South East farmers have not been able to get on the land as it's been so wet.
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by Nick Saltmarsh
December 16, 2019
If you haven't caught up with them yet you really mustn't miss the new Cereal podcast series from Farmerama Radio and Wendell Steavenson's Guardian long read Flour Power. Pus more food for thought we've digested recently.
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by Josiah Meldrum
November 02, 2019
A little over 10 years ago Nick, William and I began working with Transition City Norwich on the Resilient Food Project, a community initiative that asked whether the city could feed itself in a low impact, low input way from the fields around its walls and that was the catalyst for Hodmedod. One of the many things we needed to get to grips with was grain, flour and bread (we're still on that journey). Here
Charlotte Du Cann, writing in 2009, records one of our early explorations into fields and bakeries.
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by Sue Hudson
October 22, 2019
Learn to bake with fresh-milled grains such as our YQ wheat. Expert home-baker Sue Hudson, who runs
Bread Workshops in East Anglia, has begun offering courses where you can mill our grains with a
Mockmill and then bake with them. As Sue explains, there's nothing quite like the flavour of a loaf made with fresh-milled flour.
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by Josiah Meldrum
September 13, 2019
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From the 7th of October and for 2 weeks Extinction Rebellion is calling an International Rebellion. The aim is to use peaceful direct action to persuade governments to act on the Climate and Ecological Emergency many have already declared. We’re supporting the London Rebellion by supplying food for their kitchens. Josiah explains why...
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by Nick Saltmarsh
August 02, 2019
With the summer festival season in full swing we're getting out and about with our British-grown pulses, grains and seeds. They're superb ingredients not just for comforting winter fare but excellent in lighter summer dishes too.
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by William Hudson
June 28, 2019
As usual this year's weather is proving utterly different from last year, when the Beast From The East severely delayed planting of spring crops, resulting in reduced yields and some quality.
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by Josiah Meldrum
May 27, 2019
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We aim to cut out unnecessary use of resources in our business and ensure that the ‘stuff’ we do use leaves as light a footprint as possible; from production to packaging to our electricity supply. But some things are hard to avoid.
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by Josiah Meldrum
March 17, 2019
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Professor Martin Wolfe was a great friend and mentor to us. A true pioneer, Martin pursued his research into agroforestry, co-cropping, crop populations, new crop trials and more at his Suffolk farm Wakelyns. Believing that sustainability depended not just on a whole farm approach but on radical change to the whole food system, he shared his expertise widely and generously. Martin died peacefully at home earlier this month. He leaves a lasting legacy of work, not least his YQ wheat population, and his memory will remain a guiding inspiration to us.
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by Nick Saltmarsh
August 17, 2018
Pioneering farmers Peter and Andrew Fairs, of Great Tey in Essex, have successfully grown the first ever crop of British chia. These tiny oil-rich seeds represent another step in Hodmedod's mission to increase the diversity of both British farming and British diets.
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by Nick Saltmarsh
June 09, 2018
We're getting very excited about Bristol Food Connections, an amazing festival of more than 100 events across the city & through the week of 11th to 17th June. We're involved in a few things...
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