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Wakelyns YQ Wheat Flour, Organic, Stoneground
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YQ flour grown and milled at Wakelyns Agroforestry, the original home of this revolutionary wheat population. This flour is revolutionary! It's milled from the YQ (Yield...
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Wakelyns Q Wheat Flour, Organic, Stoneground
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Q flour grown and milled at Wakelyns Agroforestry, the original home of the revolutionary Q and YQ wheat populations. The sister of the better-known revolutionary YQ...
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Wakelyns YQ Wheat, Organic Wholegrain
Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains
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Whole organic wheat grain from the revolutionary YQ population, grown at Wakelyns, the population's original home.
YQ wheat grains can be cooked and eaten whole, or milled at home (we recommend using a Mockmill) for flavoursome and nutritious flour.
The YQ (Yield and Quality) wheat population was bred at Wakelyns Agroforestry by Professor Martin Wolfe and the Organic Research Centre. The population is a crop of extraordinary diversity that's emerged over time from a wide range of carefully chosen parent varieties, leading to fields of millions of genetically distinct individual wheat plants rather than the usual genetically uniform monocultures.
Pioneering Suffolk research farm Wakelyns was established in 1994 by our friend and mentor the late professor Martin Wolfe to test and develop agroforesty approaches that integrate annual crops (like lentils and cereals) with trees and other perennial plants.
Martin aimed to increase diversity in fields and between fields, an approach that increases overall yields and ensures the farm is better able to cope with climatic variability, pest and disease pressures and is less dependent on inputs, like fertiliser, from outside the farm. Read more about Wakelyns...
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Wakelyns Agroforestry: Resilience through Diversity
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Pioneering Suffolk research farm Wakelyns was established in 1994 by our friend and mentor the late professor Martin Wolfe to test and develop agroforesty approaches that integrate annual crops (like lentils and cereals) with trees and other perennial plants.
Martin aimed to increase diversity in fields and between fields, an approach that increases overall yields and ensures the farm is better able to cope with climatic variability, pest and disease pressures and is less dependent on inputs, like fertiliser, from outside the farm.
The farm has four agroforestry silvo-arable systems; hazel coppice, willow coppice, a fruit and nut tree system and a mixed hardwood and fruit tree system. The trees are planted in rows or as production hedges running north/south with organic crops grown in rotation within the 10-12m wide alleys.
Published by the Organic Research Centre and Woodland Trust, this booklet offers a fascinating and inspiring insight into the development, practice and legacy of Wakelyns.
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The Wakelyns Bundle
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Our Wakelyns Bundle contains a selection of crops grown at Wakelyns Agroforestry, the pioneering research farm in Suffolk established by our friend and mentor, the late...
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Wakelyns Whole Coral Lentils, Organic
Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains
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| Organic lentils from Wakelyns Agroforestry are back! |
In the late summer of 2017 we harvested the first commercial crop of British-grown lentils at Wakelyns 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 excited to now have more organic lentils from Wakelyns, this time Coral Lentils grown and harvested in 2020. If split these would be what we more usually call a red lentil, but these are a traditional French variety best eaten whole. Because they're so limited we're only selling these special lentils in 500g packs.
Pioneering Suffolk research farm Wakelyns was established in 1994 by our friend and mentor the late professor Martin Wolfe to test and develop agroforestry approaches that integrate annual crops (like lentils and cereals) with trees and other perennial plants.
Martin aimed to increase diversity in fields and between fields, an approach that increases overall yields and ensures the farm is better able to cope with climatic variability, pest and disease pressures and is less dependent on inputs, like fertiliser, from outside the farm. Read more about Wakelyns...
| We also have Olive Green Lentils from a number of other UK farmers. |
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Our Wakelyns 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
Wakelyns Squash Box
Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains
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We've 100 very special organic Kuri and Hokkaido squash, grown by Marion Gaze in the cropping alleys at Wakelyns Agroforestry. These special Wakelyns Squash Boxes...
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