Welcome to Wakelyns

Organic farming on one of the longest-established and most diverse Agroforestry sites. We are about food, people, the environment and much more.
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NGO Retreats
Contemporary Hempery
Willow weaving
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Join us at Wakelyns on Saturday 6 August 2022 for our 2nd Community Butterfly Day. Lots of interest and fun for all the family on a butterfly theme including butterfly walks with Steve Piotrowski. Admission free but registration essential.

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The Contemporary Hempery

We are delighted to welcome Claire and Kitty with their ‘Contemporary Hempery’ enterprise. Fully equipped with their Home Office licence, they are growing an alley of hemp within our agroforestry alleys here at Wakelyns in 2022.

We'd love to host your group!

All based around what we grow and Wakelyns' biodiversity, including: Bird & Butterfly & Tree Walks * Mead Making * Bee Keeping * Learn, Cook & Eat * Field to Fork * Spoon Carving * Wholegrain Sourdough Baking * Hand Spinning * Wild Clay and Cordage * Natural Dyeing * Willow Weaving * Agroforestry Open Weekend * Butterfly Day * Apple Day

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Proud to be a leader in helping tackle climate change

We are delighted that Wakelyns features here as one of only two farms in the UK (within only eleven UK sites) on the Oxford University Nature Based Solutions Initiative’s interactive map of best practice. Let's hope lots more are added soon!

Rent the Wakelyns Farmhouse by the day or the week for your family holiday or group/NGO retreat.

Population wheats

The YQ and Q population wheats were developed at Wakelyns by Martin Wolfe and the Organic Research Centre.

Buy bread and other food from the Wakelyns Bakery, vegetable boxes from RealVeg and woodland craft items from the Woodland Haberdasher; also our a range of products (including bread by post) through Hodmedods.

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Agroforestry

Wakelyns is distinguished by the system of alleys and hedges that have been established over the past 25 years making it one of the oldest and most diverse organic agroforestry sites in the UK.

In the tree rows are nearly 50 varieties of apples, pears, quinces, cherries, walnuts, hazelnuts, along with trees for timber and coppiced willow and hazel for thatching and biomass fuel.