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Wakelyns Whole Lentils, Organic

Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains

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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 Olive Green Lentils grown and harvested in 2019. 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 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...

Wakelyns YQ Wheat Flour, Organic, Stoneground

Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains

£2.19 £2.69

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...

Wakelyns Q Wheat Flour, Organic, Stoneground

Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains

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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...

Wakelyns YQ Wheat, Organic Wholegrain

Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains

£1.89 £2.69

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...

Wakelyns Agroforestry: Resilience through Diversity

Organic Research Centre

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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.

The Wakelyns Bundle

Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains

£12.50 £14.76

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...