Wakelyns is one of the oldest, most diverse, organic agroforestry sites in Western Europe now hosting rural businesses through ‘enterprise stacking’. We also run and host community events and outreach, courses, and more.

We are looking for people who share our values wanting to do full or part time activities on our site linked to the land or the environment. That may involve your exclusive use of part of the area (such as if you are growing horticulture) but it may be something within the organic rotation (growing a particular crop), or in part of the farm (such as using produce from our short rotation willow or hazel coppice).

We currently host people who are, variously, growing vegetables (on a particular area of land), juicing fruit (from fruit harvested across the whole site), weaving willow and running courses (using willow grown on part of the site), baking/cooking (including using vegetables and wheat grown on site), running bird/nature walks (across the whole site), doing outreach and bringing groups of school children to Wakelyns, looking after bees (in various locations around the site), running tree walks (across the site), growing and using hemp and running a hemp festival (in agroforestry alleys within our rotation), natural weaving and dyeing (including with plants and the hemp grown on site and with a workshop on site).

We would welcome inquiries from anyone with an idea of how to add to all that, particularly through their collaboration and interaction with others already doing something here. We are happy with more of the same – more veg growing, for example., But it must be something connected to the land/nature and/or other people doing stuff here. We are very flexible in how we use/allocate/share the space.

We have various indoor workshop/workspace options for use/sharing. And living on site, particularly during an initial period is very possible.

Get in touch with David if you’d like to discuss any of that.