Sourdough Bread Selection Box

Land of Plenty: The Landworkers' Alliance 2024 Calendar

The Landworkers Alliance

£16.00

The Landworkers’ Alliance’s 2024 calendar, Land of Plenty celebrates the role of diversity in agroecological food systems. Brought to life with stunning artwork from Rosanna Morris,...

Wakelyns PI’Y Brazil Nut Sourdough Tin Loaf

Wakelyns Bakery

£7.50

Wakelyns Bakery at Wakelyns Organic Agroforestry produces small batches of wholegrain bread for us every week. This beautiful loaf is made with flour milled at the Hodmedod mill, from organic YQ wheat grain grown by the Turners in Lincolnshire and studded with Brazil nuts collected by the Kayapo in the Amazon.

Baker Henrietta Inman says:

We were so happy when we heard about the Landworkers’ Alliance, Roddick Foundation, Hodmedod and Kayapó led cooperative COOBA-Y coming together to build a new direct trade relationship to bring their wild-harvested PI’Y, the Kayapó name for Brazil nuts, to the UK for the first time.

With many flavours, textures and feelings of creamy-oaty-smooth-oily-rich-crunchy, they are all-sensory-satisfying magic, and we couldn’t wait to get them into as many of our kitchen creations as possible!

Coming across pieces of PI’Y suspended in our soft, brown-butter-honey wholemeal YQ dough is a very delicious surprise! Sometimes you might feel you’d still like some butter, sometimes, the nut’s delectable richness will suffice! We really hope you enjoy them, as you, EAT NUTS, SUPPORT THE KAPAPÓ, SAVE THE FOREST.

When we bring awareness and with that, compassion, to our own body ecosystems, then those around us, our homes, gardens, small bakeries… our compassion will ripple out into our whole ecosystem, our world.

To find out more about us and what we do, please visit our website – www.wakelyns.co.uk/bakery

*Add the loaf to your basket and complete your order as usual. A small number  loaves will be baked to order every week. Orders for Wednesday dispatch must be received by 8am on the Monday.

Wakelyns Agroforestry Abundance Loaf-Cake

Wakelyns Bakery

£14.25

Wakelyns Bakery at Wakelyns Organic Agroforestry produces small batches of wholegrain bread for us every week. This indulgent cross cake-loaf is the embodiment of the Wakelyns agroforestry system filled with fruit, grains, seeds and nuts. Additional ingredients, such as the Stringer family's organic rapeseed oil or the Brazil nuts from the Kayapo, reflect the farm and bakery's outward looking collaborative approach.

Baker Henrietta Inman says:

With the Wakelyns fruit, produce from the arable alleys which flourish in the (agro)forestry, and PI’Y Brazil nuts from the Kayapó people in the Amazon rainforest, this loaf is a celebration of the boundless, generous gifts trees give us, indeed, LIFE! Densely packed full of rainbow fruit jewels from dark pink dried cherries to shimmering orange candied quince and squash, all mixed together in a deeply flavourful, nourishing concoction of fruit purées, grains, pulses, seeds and PI’Y, it makes a wonderful Christmas or winter alternative celebration cake.

It will keep you going climbing up a mountain, at breakfast, for pudding or elevenses and just simply with a cup of tea by the fire. Enjoy on its own, with extra fresh or stewed fruit and yoghurt or (warm it up a little and) spread with butter, honey or jam. We don’t add any extra sugar apart from in the candies, so all the wonderful flavours can sing! Tra la la!

As with all of our work in our bakery, as well as being an efficient method for making use of what the land gives us, they are also energy efficient, as we bake them in our bread ovens’ residual heat at the end of a baking day. Plus, they keep really well for at least two weeks in the fridge. We really hope you enjoy them and toast to the trees and agrobiodiversity as you eat!

All puréed, candied and dried fruit and vegetables from Wakelyns Organic Agroforestry.

The formal - legal - way of presenting the ingredients (which is below) doesn't really do justice to to the loaf, so here's a slightly longer version: Wakelyns apple, pear and quince purée (organic), wholemeal-grain-pulse flour megamix with Wakelyns lentil flour (organic), Pimhill (Shropshire) oats (organic), Lincolnshire YQ population wheat flour (organic) from the Turners farm, quinoa flakes (organic), Essex buckwheat, PI’Y Brazil nuts, Yorkshire rapeseed oil (organic), brown linseed, candied quince (organic), candied squash (organic), prunes (organic), dried pears (organic), dried apples (organic), dried cherries (organic), Cornish seas salt, Columbian panella sugar, (organic)

Please be aware that we bake and cook with the seasons, what we have around us and our preserved stocks of fruit, and when some ingredients run out, for example, when we use up all our candied quince, we will seek the appropriate alternatives for flavour and nutrition, but also for our bakery stock rotation, using up what we have so that we are prepared for the coming summer – autumn abundance until the next hungry gap.

To find out more about us and what we do, please visit our website – www.wakelyns.co.uk/bakery

*Add the loaf to your basket and complete your order as usual. A small number  loaves will be baked to order every week. Orders for Wednesday dispatch must be received by 8am on the Monday.

Olive Green Lentils

Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains

£3.29

We began trialling lentils in the UK in 2015 and had our first commercial harvest in 2018. Now we work with a small group of farmers in Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire and Sussex, all of whom are working to create more diverse, regenerative farming systems.