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Henrietta Inman

Wakelyns Bakery

henrietta@wakelyns.co.uk

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Hello everyone! I do hope you’re all well. ♥️

I just wanted to give you a quick update on where you can find our 100% wholemeal local loaves at the moment -

On Thursdays, find them at -
Focus Organic, Halesworth
Maple Farm Kelsale
Bonitas, Stowmarket
Metfield Stores CIC

On Fridays, find them at -
The Green Cupboard, Harleston
The Wholefood Store, Manningtree
Fressingfield General Stores

You can also buy our sourdough starter, with instructions on maintenance and a recipe to make your own wholemeal loaf with it, on @hodmedods online. I hope to be baking again for Hodmedod’s soon, we’ll keep you updated! :)

All of our loaves are made with organic, fresh stoneground 100% wholemeal flour. At the moment I’m using mostly @wakelyns diverse and climate resilient YQ population wheat, with a little bit of Mulika, a modern wheat, grown in Lincolnshire, milled @gilchesters @duchessfarms. We use the WHOLE GRAIN. Combined with the fresh stone milling and sourdough process, as well as the organic diversity of the local grains, this creates loaves FULL of maximum flavour and nutrition. There is no unnecessary wastage of the nutrient-dense and delicious bran, and all of the work of the farmers and millers and every other being and organism in the whole food chain is honoured in each loaf - the whole (hi)story.

Embodying the whole grain each day in my baking practice, to me, it is also a symbol of the more whole, integrated, dots-connected food system, and indeed, world, that I hope for. It gives me meaning and purpose to get out of bed each day and keep baking. It connects me to Nature and all of Her whole, interconnected cycles, grounds me, and reminds me I am whole. When things around me can feel out of my control or stressful, I try to come back to my breath and to this. I hope for a world where one day, everyone can have a holistic, healing connection to Nature through the food we eat, I feel like it could help SO much.

I really hope you’re all enjoying your WHOLENESS local loaves.

Sending love to everyone, Hen ♥️

‘The work of hope requires people who throw themselves actively into what is becoming, to which they themselves belong,’ @breadandpuppet

Dearest UK baking-cooking friends, and food friend

Dearest UK baking-cooking friends, and food friends all over the world! If you have a few minutes, please read the below post from our US friends and colleagues. If you have any capacity to help, please DM @bakers.for.bakers. Dyakuyu ♥️

Posted @withregram • @bakers.for.bakers At a time when the world feels completely unhinged— from global climate change to war and famine on several continents— it is rare to find an achievable action one can take that will directly affect those in need. Bakers for Bakers was recently formed in response to this moment. We believe in the power of collaboration, strength in numbers, and the immeasurable value of community. And we have identified an achievable goal to launch this effort.

BREAD: FLOUR, WATER, SALT, TIME, AND HOPE says it all. Our first fundraiser in August benefits the amazing @bake.for.ukraine with the funds raised going specifically to moving and refurbishing two mobile wood-fired bakeries that are currently sitting on the border of Ukraine and Belarus.

Bake for Ukraine is an NGO that since the start of the war has worked to secure the local food supply by supporting local bakeries and farmers - mainly in the cities most affected by the war. They have raised money to enable local bakeries to give away free bread to people driven from their homes and livelihoods, supporting small bakeries in Kyiv, Bucha, Kherson, Odesa and Kharkiv. The targeting of Ukraine’s power grid has challenged this effort as rolling blackouts are a daily occurrence.

Last year, the small team of Bake for Ukraine discovered the existence of a few wood-fired mobile bakeries built by the Swiss army during the Cold War. Currently Bake for Ukraine has secured one mobile bakery (pictured here) thanks to the amazing fundraising efforts of @felicityspector based in the UK. This mobile bakery is in Mykolaiv where local volunteers are being trained by the team to bake bread for communities in Kherson region.

The week of August 19th - August 24th, bakeries across America will be baking Palyanytsya bread and other specialties to fund two more mobile wood-fired bakeries. Bakers….please join us. DM for more info! Stay tuned!
Photos by @baron.photo

This week’s LOCAL LO(A)VES on their way to YOU,

This week’s LOCAL LO(A)VES on their way to YOU, and COME AND MEET YOUR BAKER at STOWMARKET FOOD FESTIVAL THIS SUNDAY with @bonitaswholefoods! 💚🌍💚 Here I am with our lovely squidgy seeded loaf, tehe!

All of our wonderful shops, some received loaves yesterday, some this morning, (@hodmedods deliveries on Thursdays!) tagged so you know where to pick up from :) do hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed milling, mixing and baking them for you. THANK YOU FOR EATING THEM and supporting a more just and loving, whole and connected food system. ♥️🌾♥️🌳♥️

I’ll also be with super Ollie and Tree, founders of beautiful delicious Bonitas in Stowmarket, this Sunday from about 10am - 1pm. Do come along and try some of our wholemeal local loaves, learn about why we LOVE the WHOLE GRAIN and all its goodness and deliciousness, and about the diverse cereal seeds we use in them. There’ll be some great @wakelyns @orgrescent booklets too to find out more about Wakelyns, where the YQ population wheat which goes into your bread was developed and grown between the trees in this abundant agroforestry system. 🌾🌳🍒

LOTS OF TASTERS AND FRESH LOAVES FOR SALE! Yum yum! All made with the @wakelyns YQ and @edwarddickin Oak Farm population wheats - I’ll have our plain wholemeal tin, seeded with all the @hodmedods seeds, and wholemeal rye, grown in Bedfordshire at Crow Hill Farm, milled @gilchesters.

Hope to see you on Sunday and hope you all have a really happy weekend.

Also, super mega CONGRATULATIONS to @adrian4wv, the new Green Party MP for the Waveney Valley!!!!!! 💚💚💚💚💚

#LocalLoaves #Wholegrain #Wholehearted #Wholemeal #MeaningInWork #Divine #Love #Justice #Kindness #Community #Localise #Decommodify #Decentralise #Diversify #Wakelyns #WakelynsCommunity #WakelynsFun #YQ #Suffolk

Bread, and roses too, and this is why we do what w

Bread, and roses too, and this is why we do what we do. ♥️

Yesterday’s loaves now at

Metfield Stores
@grangefarmshop
@focusorganic
@tosierchocolate
@maple_farm_kelsale
@bonitaswholefoods

Today’s loaves in the oven and by tomorrow at

Fressingfield Stores
@thegreencupboard.ltd_
@thewholefoodstore
@leosdelifram
@salterandking
@thisisreubens
@fridaystreetfarmshopcafe

If you live locally, you can also sign up to our wholemeal local loaf subscription and get a loaf a week. You can come to pick it up from @wakelyns or we can drop it off at any of the above shops we deliver too. Thank you super shopkeepers for having our bread and also helping us with our subscriptions, we all really appreciate it!

And don’t forget, you can also find our wholemeal tin, seeded loaf, 4 grain muesli loaf, rye and PI’Y Brazil nut loaves on @hodmedods online. Order by Monday morning for Thursday delivery.

We really hope you enjoy your loaves if you pick one up this week. At the moment we’re baking with the @wakelyns YQ population wheat, grown and stone milled fresh each week here, just footsteps from our bakery, and @edwarddickin’s Oak Farm population wheat, grown at his parents’ Oak Farm in Lincolnshire, milled @hodmedods on their @newamericanstonemills fresh each week too, for all the flavour and nutrition and joy!

It’s these connections and this accountability in the grain chain which mean our loaves fill up and uplift not only our bodies, but our hearts and spirits too. ♥️

‘Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses.’ James Oppenheim, ‘Bread and Roses’, 1911.

#Wakelyns #Wholemeal #LocalLoaves #Community #Diversity #Resilience #BreadAndRoses #SmallFoodNotBigFood #WakelynsFun #WakelynsCommunity #Bread #ItsDelicious #Suffolk #EastAnglia #ConnectedFood

I returned home and to @wakelyns this week after a

I returned home and to @wakelyns this week after a really wonderful, enriching time @elmoremountainbread. THANK YOU Blair, Andrew and Phineus for welcoming me so so warmly, kindly, and generously.

I was not feeling so well for part of my stay - @uk_grain_lab community (and our whole international community) a reminder to us all of our timeline and taking care of ourselves and NOT BURNING OUT! ♥️ But being in this beautiful beautiful place, working directly with farmers in Vermont, freshly stone milling their grain each week, using local, ecologically managed wood, delivering loaves personally and compassionately knowing all of their customers, was certainly part of my healing and enabling to feel myself again; it was the most nourishing tonic! A constant reminder of why we do what we do, how it is a part of us, why we all love it so much, how lucky we are to have found this work and each other, and have such a strong and vibrant international grain community too. Friendships ♥️♥️♥️

Thank you, Blair, for your energy, patience, sharing, teaching and just non-stop determination and strength in what you do. You filled me with hope, new ideas, inspiration and positivity and I couldn’t wait to get back to work!!! Thank you Andrew @newamericanstonemills for everything you shared also, your kindness and openness and so so much more! You are pretty incredible human beings, a super star inspiring team, a very very special family.

Jim @backdoorbread thank you so much for welcoming me to your beautiful bakery too, fellow wholegrain baker! I’m still enjoying your granola very much! And can’t get the pretty light blue @wsu_bread_lab grains out of my head! @breadandpuppet you filled my heart, thank you.

Returning with renewed and sincere gratitude for our community and being together with you all in this work, this life. THANK YOU!!! How lucky we are. Let’s keep on going. ♥️🌾♥️🌾♥️

Hope everyone is really well and taking care of yourselves and each other. Sending lots and lots of love.

#ElmoreMountainBread #NewAmericanStoneMills #Community #LocalGrain #Joy #Love #Bread

And some May @wakelyns Agroforestry Open Weekend j

And some May @wakelyns Agroforestry Open Weekend joy!

From the trees and the crops interconnecting, to all of the @wakelyns stacked enterprises interconnecting with the agroforestry, and then with each other, and all of our visitors, it was such an abundant weekend!

Thank you David and Amanda @wakelyns for everything you’ve done and all you continue to do to make this wonderful weekend and everything that happens here possible.

Thank you superstar kitchen team, Maisie, Lakshmi, Jessie, Nina, Rebecca, mamma, papa, Monique, Edith, we did it! And for all of our beautiful ingredients @wakelyns, @hodmedods, @crapesmarketgarden, @gothelneyfarmer, @fenfarmdairy, @st.judecheese, @glebefarmfoods, @costedelsolebio and many more, thank you!

Thank you beautiful Wakelyns community, forever grateful to be here with you @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @wakelynsorganiclamb @willowphoenix.suffolk @contemporaryhempery @orgrescent.

In a recent @zoe podcast about the Blue Zones, as well as wholegrains and beans, obvs! One of the main things people in Blue Zones have in common is waking up each day with the knowledge they belong to something bigger than themselves, a religion, their ancestors, there is something more they live for each day. @laurienouchka often says the divine to me, I like this. I wonder what you feel it is for you. Making an intention to act with this awareness in each moment I can. Inviting you to join me. ♥️

Sending love to everyone. ♥️♥️♥️

#EgoToEco #Wakelyns #Agroforestry #Diversity #Resilience #Joy #Community #Divine #Love

Magical May. It zoomed past. Pausing for a moment

Magical May. It zoomed past. Pausing for a moment to reflect now and an overarching feeling, as always, is of so much gratitude. Most of all, gratitude to be part of something that is bigger than myself, than ourselves. And gratitude to be part of a community that is so kind and gentle, which acknowledges that we are not perfect and the work that we need to do, and whilst doing so, treads gently, and embraces the beauty of the process and our collective learning and growing that we are all doing whilst we create and alternative grain system.

Thank you Kim @smallfoodbakery and every being who makes @uk_grain_lab what it is, we are all Grain Lab! And super stars @charlotte.bick, @leveneruth, @rosybenson, @gothelneyfarmer, @scotseedsov, @thegaiafoundation, Joff @beameditions, @leilas_shop, @stromabakes, @_sarahlemanski_, @josiah.meldrum, @dough_club, @ilpanificiobrutto, and so many more behind the scenes who made it all happen.

Thank you everyone who came to visit our dreaming and intentions space. It was a bit of an experiment but I felt really humbled and grateful to be part of holding that space. I learnt a lot, most of all I think that as well as the galvanising, important conversations and action, finding peace and moments of reflection in order to move forward with awareness are so vital too.

Thank you beautiful food team for the most heavenly meal. Thank you Adam and Emma @willowphoenix.suffolk for the willow dream catchers that brought the magic, and Kim for your engineering ingenuity and vision! And @shires.emma and @amylwarman for creating such a beautiful space. What a feast. What a day. What a community.

Let’s keep on sowing the seeds, milling them, baking them, eating them, embodying everything they stand for.

So many more thank yous but so hard to always remember every detail and every tag!!! Just thank you thank you thank you EVERYONE! Full of love for our growing community, and the wider agroecological community we are all part of.

‘Love does not happen with words,’ Kabir. ♥️🌾♥️🌾♥️🌾

#UKGrainLab24 #Diversity #Resilience #Dream #Intention #Sacred #Divine #SmallFoodNotBigFood #Wakelyns #Agroforestry #Love #Love #Love

Thanks to lots of joyful, creative collaboration a

Thanks to lots of joyful, creative collaboration and teamwork, the @wakelyns Carport is now OPEN! Hoooray! 🎉🌈🐝🌳🌾♥️

If you’re visiting or coming to stay at Wakelyns, do make sure to pop in. It’s full of beautiful baskets and willow wands from @willowphoenix.suffolk; Wakelyns mugs; locally made bird boxes; pretty cards, naturally dyed wool, and Wakelyns wooden spoons from Fay @thewoodlandhaberdasher; delicious @hodmedods pulses - dried, dal-ed, tinned; @westcombe cheeses and @fenfarmdairy butter, yoghurt, and Baron Bigod; and our bread, biscuits, jams, chutneys, and meals - ragù to go with @pastificio_carleschi pasta; @lakshmi_yuvaa’s yellow split pea dal and dal makhani, thank you Lakshmi and @lola_de_mille for your help with these, yum yum!

Beautiful Sow Seeds print by @rosannaprints and @landworkersalliance Landskills Fair Magical Jam Session print by @jimbino_vegan_art, thank you Rosanna and Jimbino. ♥️

Part of the transition to a localised, more connected, kinder and more loving (food) system must involve more access to foods, crafts and everything created with those values. This is an incredibly complex subject, but we hope that in a small way, having access to them here could help make a little positive ripple and bring a bit more joy and nourishment in our world, which we must summon our attention to now more than ever, in every moment.

The BIGGEST thanks always to David and Amanda @amanda_at_wakelyns_ for all their LOADS OF help and support with this, and super George! It’s been a big team effort :) and we all really enjoyed building our little space together, it’s always changing too, we’re enjoying that evolving process! We hope you enjoy it if you come to visit!

Sending lots and lots of love to everyone.

#Wakelyns #Agroforestry #EatTheRevolution #ItsDelicious #GreenCrafts #Accessibility #Justice #Joy #Love #Peace #Food #AliveFood #Community

Spring arrives and more events, visitors to cook f

Spring arrives and more events, visitors to cook for, fun happening @wakelyns.

Produce is slowly and surely coming, but we are still very grateful for our preserves that are lasting us through, and bringing sensuous vibrancy in, the hungry gap.

Lakshmi @lakshmi_yuvaa puts dandelion petals all over our prune brownies topped with @fenfarmdairy yoghurt and cultured cream and our candied squash

Amanda and her magic polytunnel provide us with the most sumptuous giant chard for lunch for @thegreenparty councillors

We make some new stencils with PI’Y to tell a story of and honour the Kayapó tribe, their language, identity, culture, and Brazil nuts; and with OFP SPRING POP for @edwarddickin’s wonderful spring Oak Farm population wheat we’re now combining with the @wakelyns YQ - read more about it in our letter 💌

Diversity within this year’s growing YQ and around in the edges, all the purple nettles 💜

Plum blossom, the promise of the plums to come

Putting flowers on everything from now until as late in the year as we can, including staff lunches, of course! With @hodmedods beans, @realveg_csa purple sprouting broccoli and herbs, and pickled squash, @costedelsolebio plump sunflower seeds…

Carpets of wild garlic

Glistening daffodils and more

A lot of gratitude and love for the year that has been so far, and what is to come. Thank you everyone who is always helping us work, learn and grow.

‘To be sensual is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to breaking bread.’ Down at the Cross, James Baldwin, in Bell Hook’s, All About Love.

♥️ #Agroecology #Interdependence #Love

Edible seeds in today’s lunch! 💚 and… dee

Edible seeds in today’s lunch! 💚 and…

deep quiches 🌊
Wakelyns YQ and @edwarddickin Oak Farm population wholemeal wheat loaves 🌾
rainbow balls of @wakelyns dried pear, Warwickshire Drooper and Damson prunes, candied Black Futsu squash, Charsfield raisins 🌈
agroforestry abundance loaf 🦄
plum sponge cakes 🍑
not-too-sweet granola 🌞

and not with edible seeds, but of course, everything comes from seed ♥️

jams, chutney, squash squash syrup, Norfolk chamomile and peppermint tea 🫖
and wholemeal biscuits, malty melting hearts and PI’Y Brazil nut, chocolate, rye 💗

And of course, non-edible SEEDS TO SWAP!!!! We can’t wait to see you tomorrow @barleybirdcic @hodmedods SEED SWAP. 10am at the Hodmedod’s Bean Store in Brampton. Yippeeeee for the seeds!!! 💜🧡💜

#Seeds #Beauty #Freedom #Autonomy #Life #Diversify #Decentralise #Decommodify #Love #SlowDown #Wholeness

More wholemeal wholehearted whole lotta deliciousn

More wholemeal wholehearted whole lotta deliciousness biscuits on their way to @thewholefoodstore tomorrow, Manningtree watch out, hehe! We really hope you enjoy them.

Like with all of our food, they have lots of dear fond memories and connections to lots of friends, farms, forests… and then you, eater and food citizen, become part of that human-scale, interconnected, reciprocal system. We hope it fills your heart and your tummy, mind snd soul. ♥️♥️♥️

Stories of people and place on the other side of the packet with the ingredients list.

Lots of love. Night night. Happy equinox, and welcoming in of the light and dark, some balance. 🌞🌼🌔

#Wholemeal #Wholehearted #Wholeness #Equinox #Biscuits #ImagineBiscuitsNow

We feel really happy and privileged to be @barleyb

We feel really happy and privileged to be @barleybirdcic seed swap this Saturday from 10am - 1pm @hodmedods Bean Store.

Whilst seeds are swapped and connections are made, we’ll be there with a little stall with lots of seed deliciousness!

🌞 Seeded loaves with all of @hodmedods wonderful seeds, including coriander, hemp and camelina
🌈 Hodmedod’s 4 grain muesli loaf
🌾 Deep quiches with leeks, many cheeses and Clacton pumpkin seed wholemeal YQ pastry
🎨 @edwarddickin OFP wholemeal sponge cake soaked with a little cherry seed kernel @vodkadimas and full up of @wakelyns plums
🌸 Prune and candied squash seed balls, bursts of energy made with Hodmedod’s pumpkin and poppy seeds (coming soon to their website) and some special sunflower seeds, maybe some hemp and chia too!
🍒 Jams and chutneys
and probably a little bit more

Enjoy at the Beanstore/ Depot, and/ or take some goodies home!

Thank you Gaina and Hoddy’s for organising this wonderful event. We really look forward to to seeing you there!

Lots of love!

Thank you for the quiche photo dearest @rosybenson ♥️

#SeedSwap #SaveSeed #Diversity #Resilience #Beauty #Joy #Health #Fun #Connection #Community #Conviviality #ItsDelicious

Something new this week 💚 We’ve started a lo

Something new this week 💚

We’ve started a lovely muesli porridge loaf with our friends @hodmedods using their organic muesli mix of rye, malted wheat, jumbo and rolled oat and barley flakes. We soak it all over night and add it to our wholemeal dough. This creates really soft squidgy delicious loaves, full of diversity from the population wheats used in them, to the extra muesli grains. The result? Lots of flavour, malt-chocolate-hay, and goodness from the soil to you. Find it on the Hodmedod’s website, link in our bio. Order by Sunday evening for Thursday delivery, yum yum.

Happy to add a new colour to our Hoddy’s rainbow local loaf labels!

Sending lots of love and care. ♥️

#Wholemeal #Wholeness #Hodmedods #FourGrainMuesliBase #Diversity4Resilience #ItsDelicious

@wakelyns agroforestry abundance loaf-cakes and @h

@wakelyns agroforestry abundance loaf-cakes and @hodmedods @turnersofbytham naked oat deliciousness with @realveg_csa parsley, chervil, chard, cavolo nero and wild garlic from the woods, for 40 wonderful stewards of the land yesterday @wakelyns learning from always smiling and generous @charles_dowding.

Making these loaf-cakes is always such a joy, and so connective. Using all the fruits and crops from the agroforestry in many different forms. Quince, apple and pear purée as a base, mixed with prunes (our own dried plums), dried pear and apple, candied quince and squash, and then lots of other delights - we make a lentil, YQ, buckwheat, oat and quinoa flour-flake mix to go in too, as well as Brazil nuts from the Kayapòn tribe in the Amazon rainforest, @hodmedods linseed, @j.stringerandsons rapeseed oil and lots of love. Our recipe is always a guide, if we’re low on anything we’ll use up other things we do have, and use our creativity and senses. This time it was mostly a quince purée base (apple and pear all used now) and they were so good! @foodandforest walnut butter and a spoonful of our medlar jelly to give it a colourful zingy finish!

These freeze well so if we’re making some, we’ll@make a big batch and freeze the rest for efficiency. The efficiency of the abundant agroforestry around us inspires us always in so many ways! If you’re visiting Wakelyns soon, this will probably be on the menu! :)

The delicious naked oats, a great local rice alternative, we’re dressed with our apple molasses and cider vinegar, as well as more oil for Mike Stringer and his family. Served with @lakshmi_yuvaa’s great Dal Makhani from her recipe in @joe_woodhouse’s super book, More Daily Veg, highly recommend, so much goodness in it! Then lots of @wakelyns roast squash, @fenfarmdairy yoghurt, pickles and chutneys.

A happy, calm and abundant day of creating with What’s around us and nourishing more Wakelyns visitors, always such a pleasure!!! Thank you so much David and Amanda, @realveg_csa, @charles_dowding and everyone who came.

Thank you Isa, Lola and Monique for all your help. Thank you agroforestry and all our farmers and the land. ♥️🌳🌾 #Agroforestry #Abundance

Some yummy ♥️s on their way to the @thewholefo

Some yummy ♥️s on their way to the @thewholefoodstore tomorrow. When you eat then you’ll say, ‘mmm!’

Thank you for the recipe inspiration @tommyswholegrain @airdtommy! ♥️🌾♥️

#Wholemeal #Wholehearted #Whole #Health #AllTheSeed #ImagineBiscuitsNow

@wakelyns candied squash jewel tasting, from botto

@wakelyns candied squash jewel tasting, from bottom clockwise, Red Kuri, Black Futsu and Butternut, all grown by Jannine @scankyhippy and her wonderful family. All so different in texture and flavour, all so wonderful, fun and playful, reminiscent of candied chestnut, mango… and just beautiful squash!!!

It’s a quieter time of the year here in terms of gathering and harvesting produce, but we’re still grateful to be kept busy with what’s been stored from the year before to process and preserve for the year ahead. We’ve also been making squash, quince and apple chutney, pickles, and plum jam with plums for the freezer, that we just couldn’t fit in last year during the harvest as well, and the other jamming and pruning and juicing…!

We’re grateful for this quieter part of the seasons’ cycle, enabling us to stock up on these preserves, like our flavour foundation, that will help us so much in the year ahead… adding candied squash to cakes and tarts, jams for everyone’s breakfasts, chutney and pickles with dal and more.

It’s hard to put into words what cooking with what’s around us means to us and does to us as humans, but feelings of gratitude and connection are very much here, humbling, grounding, slowing down, being very thrifty and creative and making do with what we have, appreciating, gathering produce and people together. I’ll stop there for today. One day I’d like to write a book about it all, one day… :)

Sending lots and lots of love to everyone today, on 1st March. 🧡🧡🧡

#Wakelyns #Agroforestry #Organic #Squash #Candy #Create #Connect #Communicate #Craft #Art #Gratitude #Love

Choosing and sending love to everyone, today and e

Choosing and sending love to everyone, today and everyday. 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

Come and taste delicious chocolate and bread, choc

Come and taste delicious chocolate and bread, chocolate and hazelnut spread, brownies, biscuits and more with us this Saturday 17th February! ♥️

We’re celebrating @realbreadcampaign Real Bread Week this week with our friends Deanna, Jonathan and Emil @tosierchocolate with a tasting for all your senses from 11am - 1pm. Please come, we’d love to see you!

Tosier hasn’t been open in Middleton for very long but what they have created is wonderful. A little magic chocolate factory making bean to bar chocolate and other delights, with beans sourced traceable and kindly. If you’re nearby and haven’t been yet, this is a lovely chance to visit, with tasters on us :) but lots of other delights to buy if you’d like!

Keeping with the grain :) after us @adnams will be doing a whisky tasting, with more lovely lively Tosier chocolate.

We look forward to seeing you! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

#Chocolate #Bread #Fermentation #Tasting #Sensory #Magic #Wakelyns #Suffolk #Tosier #ItsDelicious #ItsAlive #YumYum

Heron @heronholmes1, Dmitry and I cleaning the bea

Heron @heronholmes1, Dmitry and I cleaning the beautiful YQ and Nick’s purple wheat a week or so ago, and having fun!

Our cleaning and weighing, and then milling, baking, feeling and tasting, is part of the @wakelyns YQ Coming Home project.

In winter ‘21 we drilled five alleys of diversity - the original Wakelyns YQ, some YQ from the first farm it travelled to, Mark and Liz @green_acresfarm, then from John, Steph and Guy @turnersofbytham and Mike and his family @j.stringerandsons. For the final alley, we mixed them all up for a YQ megamix.

With its diversity enabling resilience, but also adaptation to the land and climate it grows in, we hope to research and explore into what happens when these seeds leave the landscape they were created in and adapt to. Whilst growing and before harvest, they certainly all looked very beautifully differentiate the alleys between the willow. But what about now when we weigh them after harvest, how did they grow, how will they mill, mix, bake and eat?

We’re not sure right now what the outcome of this research will be, that’s the learning in the doing, but we know that doing it feels of utmost importance at a time when we need these diverse and resilient seeds more than ever for the longevity of all living beings on/and this Earth.

If anybody knows of any research grants/ funding (have never done this before!) we might be able to seek to help us, please comment below or email henrietta@wakelyns.co.uk. Thank you so much.

Sending love and Imbolc awakening joy to everyone.

#Diversity #Resilience #Interdependence #Interconnection #Beauty #Joy #Community #GoodFoodForAll #YQ #Wakelyns #Diversity4Resilence #Live #Love

So happy and grateful to be back in our happy bake

So happy and grateful to be back in our happy bakery @wakelyns after a much needed pause. ♥️

Wholemeal YQ loaves are just about to go in the oven, ready for tomorrow’s deliveries to

@grangefarmshop
@focusorganic
@tosierchocolate
@maple_farm_kelsale
@bonitaswholefoods
@fridaystreetfarmshopcafe
And Metfield Stores CIC

Friday deliveries

@thegreencupboard.ltd_
@thewholefoodstore
@leosdelifram
@fodderfooduk
@salterandking
@fridaystreetfarmshopcafe again yippee!
and Fressingfield Shop

And our loaves are all available again now through @hodmedods online. Hope you enjoy them if you’ve ordered this week. Orders close at 8am on Mondays.

Here’s a super diagram to show you exactly all the goodness you are getting when you buy our loaves (compared to a loaf made with white, sifted, roller-milled commodity flour - just the stuff in yellow :( ). The goodness goes beyond the loaf to the soils and communities who are being nourished through the growing of this wonderful diverse cereal seed used each day in our bead, the YQ.

Thank you @wsu_bread_lab and Steve Jones for all the knowledge you share and confirming everyday the vital importance for life of eating the whole grain. Thank you @backdoorbread for being an inspiring ally and for your mega sticker!!! Via @smallfoodbakery, thank you, Kim!

Wishing you all a joyful wholehearted year ahead. This year I’m choosing to not be afraid of opening my heart (more!). Will you join me?! :) ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ Lots of love everyone.

Thank you for sharing the etymology of courage with us @laurienouchka ♥️

LATIN - cor - heart
OLD FRENCH - corage
MIDDLE ENGLISH - courage

#Wholegrain #Wholemeal #Wholehearted #Wholeness #HolisticVision #Interconnection #Interdependence #Agroecology #SmallFoodNotBigFood #WhoseBreadIsThis #Wakelyns

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