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    • Self Guided Tour
    • Hazel Field
    • Home Field
    • North Field
    • Mid Field
    • Willow Field
  • Research
    • Organic Research Centre – organic agroforestry
    • Agroforestry and Birds
      • Blog easyread version
      • Full paper
    • Anna Wyeth – Landscape Biodiversity
    • Ben MacLellan – fungi
    • Beth Evans – agroforestry
    • Catherin Sebastian – using sattellites to measure soil moisture
    • Jack Thompson – Enterprise Stacking
    • Laurence Smith – Agroforestry
    • Rosy Scholes – worms
  • What we grow
    • Agroforestry
    • Agroecological Wheats
    • Apples
    • Chairs
    • Cherries
    • Corn
    • Hemp
    • Lentils & Camelina
    • Naked Oats
    • Pears
    • Plums
    • Potatoes
    • Pumpkins
    • Squash
    • Vines
    • Walnuts
    • Wakelyns Fruit Harvests
    • Wakelyns trees
    • Willow and Hazel Coppicing
    • Woodland Management Plan
    • YQ population Wheats
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WILD WEAVING WORKSHOP WITH KITTY - 6 September 2025 - 13 September 2025 - 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

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Organic agroforestry hub in Suffolk, UK 🌎 accommodation 🛌 courses and events 📅 delicious bread, food &
Real Veg 🌱 home of YQ wheat 🌾 fun!
Join us to enjoy and celebrate lentil dishes from Join us to enjoy and celebrate lentil dishes from around the world at the Wakelyns Dal Festival 2025. Information and booking via the link in our bio. #lentils #dal #suffolk #foodfestival
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Join us on Saturday for lots of lentil fun. Inform Join us on Saturday for lots of lentil fun. Information and booking via the link in our bio. #lentils #dal #dahl
Wakelyns Dal Festival 26 July 2025 #dal #suffolk Wakelyns Dal Festival 26 July 2025 #dal #suffolk #Dahl #lentils
Join us for lots of food and music fun on Saturday Join us for lots of food and music fun on Saturday 26 July at Wakelyns
Yes, we had a website disaster! All now sorted, bu Yes, we had a website disaster! All now sorted, but many apologies if you were unable to book for one of our events, such as Agroforestry Open Weekend, coming up on Saturday, 17, and Sunday, 18 May. Do join us to meet the whole Wakelyns team and catch up with everything happening here. Delicious food from @silva.wakelyns. all welcome. Admission is free, but registration is required. Info via link in our bio or www.wakelyns.co.uk/aow @agroforestryopenweekend @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @contemporaryhempery @naturalhabitatcommunity @kittywilsonbrownart @wakelyns_veg_cic @willowphoenix.suffolk @harryreadphoto
Join us @wakelyns Saturday 17 - Sunday 18 May for Join us @wakelyns Saturday 17 - Sunday 18 May for Agroforestry Open Weekend. Lots to see. Delicious food from @silva.wakelyns. Fun for all the family.
So the first turtle doves of 2025 arrived back @wa So the first turtle doves of 2025 arrived back @wakelyns today! Join @harryreadphoto for a Bird Walk at Wakelyns on Saturday 19th April and you might be lucky enough to see and hear them. More details and booking via link in our bio. Next Wakelyns Bird Walk after that will be for World Dawn Chorus Day on Sunday 4th May. (NB these photos and videos are from last year!) #turtledoves @willowphoenix.suffolk @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @contemporaryhempery @silva.wakelyns @wakelynsveg @kittywilsonbrownart @naturalhabitatcommunity
FINAL CALL! Join us on Saturday 19 April for willo FINAL CALL! Join us on Saturday 19 April for willow weaving with @willowphoenix.suffolk or a bird walk with @harryreadphoto or for wildlife tracking with @davidcwege or a tree walk with our own expert ARBORIST Paul Jackson. All with a lovely lunch from @silva.wakelyns info and booking via the link in our bio. @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @contemporaryhempery @kittywilsonbrownart @naturalhabitatcommunity
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Thanks Larissa for this lovely video of last weeke Thanks Larissa for this lovely video of last weekend's Wakelyns Community Apple Day. We had lots of fun, as you can see. Larissa has been staying in one of our caravans while volunteering at Wakelyns for the last few weeks, helping out with the veg growing, in the bakery, with Wakelyns events and lots more. Some people come to learn new skills, others to see organic agroforestry in action, others just to do stuff outdoors in a lovely place. We aim to be a welcoming and friendly place based around Commitments and Values set out on our website. But the realities of mud and aged caravans limit it spring to autumn. Get in touch via our website if you fancy joining us in 2025. @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @naturalhabitatcommunity @contemporaryhempery @willowphoenix.suffolk @adamamstar @thebuzzatbeenatural @wakelynsorganiclamb @wakelyns_bakery_and_kitchen @wakelynsbakery @kittywilsonbrownart
🌸WILD WEAVING WORKSHOP🌸 @kittywilsonbrowna 🌸WILD WEAVING WORKSHOP🌸 @kittywilsonbrownart invites you to come to @Wakelyns for a two day course, learning to naturally dye yarn and weave a tapestry. On the first day, October the 12th, you will learn how to dye yarn such as hemp, flax and wool using plants from Kitty’s natural dye garden including indigo, coreopsis, marigold and hemp leaf. After lunch we sit down to design our tapestry with the colours we’ve produced. On the second day, October the 19th, after learning basic weave and tapestry techniques you will create your own design, using your own dyed yarn. Lunch will be included on both days, using produce that is organically grown on the agroforestry farm. Limited numbers available so please book your place on the Wakelyn’s website https://wakelyns.co.uk/events/dyeing-weaving-with-kitty/ Any questions please email Kitty at kittywilsonbrown@outlook.com #weaving #workshop #textiles #naturaldye #tapestry @wakelyns @contemporaryhempery @wakelynsorganiclamb @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @wakelynsbakery @wakelyns_bakery_and_kitchen @naturalhabitatcommunity @kittywilsonbrownart @willowphoenix.suffolk @adamamstar @agroforestryopenweekend @thebuzzatbeenatural
Join us for Wakelyns Community Apple Day 2024 on S Join us for Wakelyns Community Apple Day 2024 on Saturday 28 September 10-4. Lots of fun for all the family including crafts @willowphoenix.suffolk, apple juicing @naturalhabitatcommunity , delicious food from @wakelynsbakery and our real ale bar; meet the Wakelyns sheep @wakelynsorganiclamb and lots more. Here are some photos from last year's event. Admission free but registration essential please. Also (best to book ahead!) why not join a Wakelyns Apple/Tree Walk in our #organic #agroforestry tree lines during the day with our apple expert arborists Paul Jackson and Jim Cooper; or a Wakelyns Bird/Nature Walk with @harryreadphoto. Information and registration/booking via the link in our bio. @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @adamamstar @contemporaryhempery @suffolkwildlifetrust @rspb @rspbminsmere #appleday2024 #suffolk #suffolklife #waveneyvalley
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: On Friday 27 September 202 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: On Friday 27 September 2024, we will be holding the Second Wakelyns Symposium, bringing together people with ideas for the future ownership, funding, governance and operation of Wakelyns. More information via the link in our bio. @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @wakelynsbakery @contemporaryhempery @kittywilsonbrownart @willowphoenix.suffolk @adamamstar @wakelynsorganiclamb @thebeesatbeenatural @hodmedods @naturalhabitatcommunity
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The Turtle Doves are back! At least two males ar The Turtle Doves are back! At least two males arrived this weekend at Wakelyns. More on the way - we hope: We had four pairs nesting here in 2023. They've arrived just in time for World Dawn Chorus Day. Join us for a Wakelyns Bird Walk next Sunday, 5 May (5.30 am start!). Join experts Steve Piortrowski @piotrowski.steve and Harry Read @harryreadphoto for a lovely few hours in our agroforestry alleys and fields to relish and learn about the sounds and sights of this special event. What's more, the weather forecast is looking good for a lovely occasion. Also on Sunday 5 May, the first Wakelyns Tree Walk of 2024. Join Paul Jackson (not on Instagram!), Wakelyns' expert arborist for nearly 20 years. 10 am start. Paul's knowledge and enthusiasm for our many special trees is unsurpassed. Here's feedback from a Tree Walk last year: “I am still on ‘a high’ from Paul’s wonderfully informative day on Sunday. He is simply amazing, sharing his passion and rich knowledge. And as for seeing more hares in one day than I have seen in a long-ish lifetime, I was over the moon. I shall be looking for an excuse for my 5th visit …! Henrietta’s lunch was brilliant and the ambiance out in ‘plein aire’ was just right.” Both the Dawn Chorus Bird Walk and the Tree Walk include a delicious lunch from Henrietta Inman @wakelynsbakery And if you'd like to stay over (maybe make it a weekend?), our Ley Alley Pods are here to welcome you. More info and booking about Tree Walks, Bird Walks and Ley Alley Pods via links in our bio. And finally on the birds: if you need persuading that agroforestry is good for birds, check out the peer reviewed paper described in this blog post (more on our website): https://agricology.co.uk/blog/more-agroforestry-to-support-bird-diversity/ @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @contemporaryhempery @thebuzzatbeenatural @realveg_csa @adamamstar @willowphoenix.suffolk @wakelynsorganiclamb @rspb @rspbminsmere #suffolk #suffolklife #worlddawnchorusweekend #worlddawnchorusday #turtledove #turtledoves #rspb #rspb_love_nature
Ann, Martin, David & Toby Wolfe planted the first Ann, Martin, David & Toby Wolfe planted the first agroforestry tree lines at Wakeyns in March 1994 - 30 years ago this month. Photo 2 is how it looked like in 1993, before we started - one big field with one variety of wheat growing: no diversity, no biodiversity, windswept and sun-dried. Photo 1 is the original planting taking place. Photos 4 & 5 are in exactly the same area of the farm last summer (including hemp from @contemporaryhempery). All that makes Wakelyns one of the longest established most diverse agroforestry sites. Photo 3 is the original record of the apple varieties from March 1994. Planting then in lines in that wheat field was regarded then as eccentric and even foolish (certainly by the farming establishment). It’s about to become mainstream! In its 2023 Carbon Budget Delivery Plan (the climate change policy document which says how the UK will reach Net Zero by 2050), the UK Government newly committed to 10% of arable land being agroforestry by 2050. That will be a big change in the landscape and to farming: lots of carbon dioxide sequestered and lots of new habitats. Meanwhile, DEFRA recently announced it will fund agroforestry with payments – under the new Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) subsidies scheme – of up to £849 per hectare for farmers to maintain agroforestry. Much better than the old BPS way of paying a flat rate of about £250 per hectare regardless of what farmers chose to grow. Finally, don't forget @agroforestryopenweekend now in its 4th year, with sites open across the UK, Ireland and beyond over 17-20 May 2024! We had 37 open last year. More for 2024. Visit an agroforestry site near you! Here's a map (taken from www.agroforestryopenweekend.org with a snapshot - more sites being added over the next few weeks. Wakelyns will be open 18-19 May. Follow the link in our bio to register to visit. Lots to look at, eat and do on the day! All welcome. @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @wakelynsbakery @willowphoenix.norfolk @adamamstar @thebuzzatbeenatural @realveg_csa @thenorfolkshepherdess @hodmedods @agricology @orgrescent @woodlandtrust @soilassociation @forestryengland @suffolkwildlifetrust @rspb
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Two great festive willow weaving events at Wakelyn Two great festive willow weaving events at Wakelyns this month: Saturday 25th November - Festive Angels; Saturday 2nd December - Festive Wreaths, Stars and other fun willow decorations. All from Adam and Emma - Willow Phoenix at Wakelyns! 25th: Learn to make an angel lantern with willow and lantern paper. Beautiful when lit up. Perfect indoors or out. After a delicious Wakelyns Bakery lunch, we’ll also show you how to make a living willow angel to plant at home. 2nd: Create 3 beautiful, sustainable decorations for your festive season. We’ll be making wreath frames and star frames, which we’ll decorate with materials we have foraged from the farm. As we craft, we’ll talk through some tree lore, take a peek at the Celtic Tree Wheel of the year and accompanying tree runes to add some magic to your work. Try your hand at pyrography to create some extra adornment. For the final project of the day, we’ll weave a festive star, perfect for a tree topper. Each course comes with tea, coffee, biscuits, cake and delicious lunch made by Henrietta @wakelynsbakery. A selection of wonderful festive treats from the Bakery is available on the day. And a special pop-up: the Wakelyns Bakery Christmas Pop Up Shop! During each day, you will also be able to buy delicious delights, which also make super Christmas gifts, from Wakelyns Bakery – Mixed and single variety apple juice and cider vinegar; jams, chutneys, pickles, and squash squash; granola; biscuits and more! All made with the organic fruit and vegetables grown just on the bakery’s doorstep in the arable crop and tree alleys of the agroforestry system at Wakelyns, and from other agroecological farming friends. More information and booking via the links in our bio. @wakelynsbakery @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @adamamstar @contemporaryhempery @realveg_csa @thebuzzatbeenatural #suffolk #suffolklife #willoweaving #festivedecorations #organic #agroforestry
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