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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
Join us to learn from the Meer Bomen Nu team (from Join us to learn from the Meer Bomen Nu team (from Holland!) about sapling harvesting as the launchpad for lots of tree planting to help tackle climate change and support nature. (Their name means More Trees Now!) They'll be with us on the afternoon of Friday 24 November and the morning of Saturday, 25 November, as the first stop on their 2024 tour of UK and Ireland. It's a great opportunity for anyone interested in helping plant lots of trees - in the community, in your garden or on your farm! Everyone welcome whether you are a novice or an expert! It should be lotsof fun and plenty to learn. It's free to come along, but registration is essential please. Each day, Henrietta from @wakelynsbakery will be offering a delicious lunch - booking ahead required. And she'll be opening her pop-up festive shop offering lots of lovely Wakelyns food and drink goodies and more. Information about Meer Bomen Nu, the events of 24th and 25th, and registration, etc, via the link in our bio. @meerbomen.nu @wakelynsbakery @realveg_csa @rewildclementine @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @contemporaryhempery @adamamstar @thebuzzatbeenatural
Many thanks to Paul, Mark, Beth, Andreus & Dmitry Many thanks to Paul, Mark, Beth, Andreus & Dmitry for harvesting our YQ population wheat this last week - it's all destined for the @wakelynsbakery. Harvest was more complicated than usual this year because of our 'YQ coming home' trials. This year we've not only grown YQ population wheat from seed that has only ever been grown at Wakelyns (since the inception of the YQ in 2021), we've also grown YQ from seed which left Wakelyns and has been growing on each of three other farms over the last few years (many thanks to them for their help). We wanted to see whether their different performance and characteristics of the YQ as grown on those sites would be replicated when we brought the seed 'home'. Who knows? Many people have theories about how the diaspora YQ has evolved (or not). Anyway, early indications are that they are all quite different - what are we to make of that? More information of the background via the link in our bio. Later in the year we will do some proper tests and measurements, checking yields, milling, baking, flavour and more. A bit of citizen science? Watch this space! @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @contemporaryhempery @adamamstar @wakelynsbakery @realveg_csa @hodmedods @josiah.meldrum @uk_grain_lab @smallfoodbakery @gothelneyfarmer @johnpawsey @markllea @turnersofbytham @mike.stringer.777 #organic #agroforestry #populationwheat
Do join us for lots of Apple inspired fun @wakelyn Do join us for lots of Apple inspired fun @wakelyns on Saturday 30 September 2023. (Here are some pictures and videos from 2022!) Lots to eat, do and learn for all the family. Delicious food and stuff to buy from the Wakelyns Bakery. Wakelyns apple juice, cider and mulled cider. Come and see what's happening here in the Organic agroforestry here at Wakelyns. Admission free but registration required please. Also book in for special guided apple day walks: birds/nature walks, apple /tree walks, horticulture/market garden walks. Info and registration/booking via the link in our bio. @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @contemporaryhempery @adamamstar @wakelynsbakery @realveg_csa @mariongaze2018 @moniquegregson @thebuzzatbeenatural @piotrowski.steve @harryreadphoto #suffolk #suffolklife #agroforestry #organic #apples #appleday
Many congratulations to Claire and Kitty from @con Many congratulations to Claire and Kitty from @contemporaryhempery for such a great weekend of hemp related activities and fun @wakelyns last weekend with their ‘Hemp Harvest Retreat’. It was lovely to see so many people involved in harvesting and processing the hemp; and such great workshops, presentations and other events including a showing of Alan Brown’s super @nettledressfilm, a top performance on the Farmyard Stage from @burr_island_band and – new to the Wakelyns Barn – ‘hamster’ racing!  Wakelyns at its best: farming, food innovation, people and fun. @ma.roemca @hempenorganic @hedgerow.couture @kipfits @rachelsheilakan @wakelynsbakery @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @realveg_csa @contemporaryhempery @adamamstar @thebeesatbeenatural @sally_cradock @wakelynsbakery @csm_architecture_march #hemp #liberatehemp #hempfibre #hemptextiles #growhemp #textiles #textiledesign #sustainbletextiles #madeintheuk #growyourownclothes #slowfashion #regenerativetextiles #circularfashion #soilhealth #savesoil #agroforestry #hempretreat #retreats
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Join us for the first "Wakelyns Dal Festival" (wit Join us for the first "Wakelyns Dal Festival" (with zero lentil miles) on Saturday 5 August! We were UK pioneers in growing lentils in conjunction with @hodmedods from 2015. Join us for a fun day to eat, learn about and cook lentils, dal and more. We’ll be using our 2022 lentil harvest of Coral, Rosanna and Black Lentils, with our 2023 crop out in our agroforestry alleys. See the lentils growing. How’s that for ‘short dal miles’?! Expert dal chefs, live music, guided Butterfly Walks and more. Fun for all the family. Everyone welcome. Admission free. More details and booking via the link in our bio. @wakelynsbakery @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @realveg_csa @contemporaryhempery @adamamstar @hodmedods @bbcfoodprog @bbccountryfile @hodmedods @thebeesatbeenatural #dal #lentils #agroecology #suffolk #suffolklife
Wakelyns is on BBC Countryfile on Sunday 9 July 8p Wakelyns is on BBC Countryfile on Sunday 9 July 8pm (and then repeated and on iplayer). They came to film a couple of weeks’ ago but we can only tell you now. They filmed a lot but of course we don’t know how long we get or what they show. All good fun. Meanwhile don’t forget the Wakelyns Community Butterfly Day on Saturday 22 July  - lots of family fun on a butterfly theme including guided bird/butterfly walks and the Big Butterfly Count. Delicious food from the Wakelyns Bakery team. Information and booking via the link in our bio. Then Saturday 5 August – the first Wakelyns Dal Festival – fun on a dal and local lentils theme. Dal cooking demonstrations. Delicious food. Entertainment. Stuff for kids. All using Wakelyns own-grown lentils (we were the first Uk lentil growers in 2015 and still the only black lentil growers).See lentils about to be harvested in our fields. Zero Dal Miles. Information and booking via the link in our bio.   And of course, The Contemporary Hempery “Hemp Harvest Retreat” here at Wakelyns on 18-20 August. Join Claire and Kitty to help with harvesting and processing hemp, and lots of fun on a hemp theme with lots of socialising, fun, music and more involved. Information via the link in our bio. @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @wakelynsbakery @realveg_csa @contemporaryhempery @adamamstar @hodmedods @bbcfoodprog @bbccountryfile #dal #lentils #agroecology #suffolk #suffolklife #hemp
The forecast is good for agroforestryopenweekend t The forecast is good for agroforestryopenweekend this weekend! UK Government says 10% UK arable farms to be agroforestry by 2050. 40 first movers are open to visitors this weekend. Come and enjoy the sunshine! For information go to www.agroforestryopenweekend.org We at Wakelyns are open Saturday and Sunday. Admission free but booking essential via the link in our bio. Our agroforestry was established in 1994 - one of the oldest and most diverse alley cropping examples. Come and see how it has evolved and what we do with it. Learn about everything at Wakelyns: organic,agroforestry, short food chains, enterprise stacking, people, research. Meet the RealVeg CSA horticuture team and Adam & Emma from Willow Phoenix. There’ll be fun stuff for kids (face painting, crafts and the like) and, of course, delicious food from the Wakelyns Bakery including lovely lunches. Paul J, our long term expert arborist will talk trees to you. Paul W will help with the practical side of farming with agroforestry. Claire will enthuse you about her Contemporary Hempery project at Wakelyns and Gill can show you how she looks after the wild bees at Wakelyns. We will also be joined by some of the team from the Organic Research Centre who will be explaining their work at Wakelyns, including how we are now (through them) part of an EU wide project studying the long term impacts of agroforestry at 8 of the most established sites across Europe. And of course our star annual visitors - the Turtle Doves! In full voice at the moment and, with their favourite trees not yet in leaf, you'll likely hear and see them right around our farmyard. See you then at the weekend, at Wakelyns or at one of the other locations! PS UK, Ireland, Costa Rica and Finland is a great start for 2023. Next year we hope to go properly global! @agroforestryopenweekend @realveg_csa @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @wakelynsbakery @thewoodlandhaberdasher @contemporaryhempery @thebuzzatbeenatural @adamamstar @mariongaze2018 @hodmedods @josiah.meldrum @moniquegregson @agroforestry @woodlandtrust @rspb @rspbminsmere @suffolkwildlife #agroforestryopenweekend #suffolk #suffolklife #agroecology
Probably our best World Dawn Chorus event yet this Probably our best World Dawn Chorus event yet this weekend - highlight was at least 3 pairs of turtle doves (we think they might have been the first in Suffolk this year). So loud they almost drowned out the other birds (not quite!). Thanks to Steve Piotrowski and Harry Read for sharing your expertise. And of course, another delicious @wakelynsbakery lunch enjoyed by the birders as well as the group here for a Tree Walk with Paul Jackson and those weaving bird feeders with Adam and Emma from Willow Phoenix. We've another day of Bird Walks, Tree Walks, and Willow Weaving on June 18th. Meanwhile, we are welcoming everyone to visit Agroforestry Open Weekend on 20-21 May. Have a look around our agroecological farming, with fun for all the family and lovely Wakelyns Bakery food in the farmyard. Meet the team from the Organic Research Centre doing research at Wakelyns. Claire from The Contemporary Hempery. RealVeg CSA. Willow Phoenix Willow crafts. Gill showing off the wild bees. Face painting and much more. Admission free, but booking essential please. Information and booking via link in our bio. @harryreadphoto @piotrowski.steve @agroforestryopenweekend @rspb_love_nature @rspbminsmere @suffolkwildlifetrust @wakelynsbakery @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @realveg_csa @contemporaryhempery @adamamstar #Suffolk #Suffolklife #agroforestryopenweekend #turtledoves
Turtle doves are back! Woken this morning by tha Turtle doves are back! Woken this morning by that special sound of spring - the first turtle dove of the year. Always welcome at Wakelyns where they seem to like our organic agroforestry. We hope they also enjoy our new 2023 ponds dug by Suffolk Wildlife Trust and planned in conjunction with the RSPB Operation Turtle Dove project. Meanwhile, the daily dawn chorus is really building up. Join Steve Piotrowski and Harry Read for the first Wakelyns Bird Walk of the year here at Wakelyns on World Dawn Chorus Day Sunday 7 May. Also that day, the first Wakelyns Tree Walk of the season with Paul Jackson. Each with a delicious lunch from Wakelyns Bakery. Info and booking for both via the link in our bio. @harryreadphoto @piotrowski.steve @suffolkwildlifetrust @rspb_love_nature @rspbminsmere @agroforestryopenweekend @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @wakelynsbakery @realveg_csa @contemporaryhempery @adamamstar @mariongaze2018 #suffolk #suffolklife #turtledove #worlddawnchorusday #worlddawnnchorusweekend #organic #agroforestry #agroecology #agroforestryopenweekend
Wakelyns is buzzing - The bees are emerging and th Wakelyns is buzzing - The bees are emerging and the whole site is alive with early pollinator action. The ley alleys in our organic rotation provide the perfect habitat for ground nesting bees, and the abundance of blossom in our diverse agroforestry systems helps these efficient pollinators thrive throughout the year! Did you know that a large majority of bee species live underground? These solitary bees, unlike socialable honeybees and bumblebees, only have one individual that lays eggs and tends to the nest or burrow, making them vulnerable to pressures that could harm their survival. Rosy and Nick, researchers from the University of Reading have been here all week, and were lucky enough to catch a newly hatched bee emerging from the soil. This solitary bee will have spent all winter in the soil growing into a super pollinator. It's wet as it's just come out of it's pupae, and is buzzing it's wings around to dry them off and generate heat before it can fly. They believe this one is a grey-patched mining bee, a common solitary bee which collects pollen from a wide variety of flowers including cherry blossom, willow and dandelion. Come visit us on 20-21 May - more information via the link in our bio. Lots of other agroforestry sites all over UK Ireland and beyond open that weekend too! Or come and stay in one of our Ley Alley Pods - be right in the centre of the action. Link in our bio. #agroforestryopenweekend @rscholesy @nickbuck__ @unirdg_sapd @agroforestryopenweekend #suffolk #suffolklife #bees #agroforestry #agroecology #organic @thebuzzatbeenatural @adamamstar @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @wakelynsbakery @beesfordevelopment
Agroforestry wine comes to Wakelyns! Last week a Agroforestry wine comes to Wakelyns! Last week and this we have added vines to our agroforestry system. We were inspired by a visit from a Dutch farmer who had tackled the airborne disease problem suffered by conventional (dense planted) vineyards by planting her rows of vines a long way apart with wheat in 'alleys' in between. North Field at Wakelyns is characterised by tree lines with only a single line of trees in each tree line (others have two) and with larger gaps between the trees. So we've now filled the gaps between the trees in the tree lines with little groups of vines! We hope that the even lower density of vines in the field will make airborne diseases even less of a problem (important in our organic system). And we are this way also making use of patches of land that were previously just grass in between the trees. So any wine we get (from about 3-4 years time, we hope) is a productivity bonus within our already-diverse agroforestry system. We are planting a total of 1050 vines from 3 white varieties (Solaris, Muscris and Souvignier Gris) and 3 red (Rondo, Carbnet Cortis and Divico). It was great to have some help from visiting students from Central St Martins. Come and have a look over Agroforestry Open Weekend (20-21 May). Details of what's on and how to register to visit Wakelyns via the link.in our bio. And of course, it's not just us open that weekend. Visit 40 agroforestry sites in the UK, Ireland and beyond that weekend. More info via @agroforestryopenweekend #agroforestryopenweekend @realveg_csa @wakelynsbakery @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @contemporaryhempery @adamamstar #suffolk #suffolklife #agroecology #organic #vines
There's lots happening @wakelyns at the moment! S There's lots happening @wakelyns at the moment! Suffolk Wildlife Trust's contractors have just dug us two new ponds to encourage Turtle Doves and Great Crested Newts; Charles Dowding held a teach-in on 'no dig' vegetable growing the other week; students from the Architecture Association School of Architecture's Landscape Urbanism course visited; the team from Gaia's UK and Ireland Seed Sovereignty Programme came for 3 days for their NGO retreat last week; Natural England paid for 20 farmers and others to attend a course on Soils run by Farm-Ed at Wakelyns also last week; and last weekend, Fay Jones, Woodland Haberdasher ran a course on hazel fence making so we now have a lovely fence near one of the new ponds. And with spring now properly in the air, we have lots coming up! Learn to weave a willow basket, a child's chair or bird feeder with Adam & Emma from Willow Phoenix (something most weekends); join Steve Piotrowski & Harry Read for a Dawn Chorus Bird Walk on 7 May (World Dawn Chorus Day); or a Wakelyns Tree Walk with Paul Jackson, same day; Fay Jones, Woodland Haberdasher has events in the Wakelyns diary up to May; and then it's Agroforestry Open Weekend across the UK, Ireland and beyond - we at Wakelyns will be open on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 May (booking essential please). For more about all of that (and other things for later in the Wakelyns year), follow the link in our bio. @wakelynsbakery @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @thewoodlandhaberdasher @adamamstar @realveg_csa @charles_dowding @realfarmed @suffolkwildlifetrust @aaschool @rspb_love_nature @rspbminsmere #suffolk #suffolklife #turtledoves
Six of the Wakelyns team have been in Cardiff for Six of the Wakelyns team have been in Cardiff for the BBC Food and Farming Awards. Lovely to have been shortlisted in the Farming for the Future category. Congratulations to winner @no1farmerjake from @overburyenterprises - glyphosate/no-dig enthusiast. Fun to meet so many great food and farming pioneers. #BBCFoodAwards #organic
Lots of fun to be the focus of today's Radio 4 'On Lots of fun to be the focus of today's Radio 4 'On Your Farm'. Listen via the link in our bio. Also a link in there to a bonus item: listen to On Your Farm from 1997 when Ann and Martin Wolfe talked about the earliest days of the Wakelyns project. #BBCFoodAwards #organic #agroforestry #suffolk #suffolklife @bbcfoodprog @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @wakelynsbakery @realveg_csa @thewoodlandhaberdasher @contemporaryhempery @scankyhippy @chefrobbie13 @adamamstar @mariongaze2018
If you were up early today you might have heard Wa If you were up early today you might have heard Wakelyns on Radio 4's Farming Today (listen via the link in our bio) - a short intro to a full feature on 'On Your Farm' in Sunday morning. It's lovely to be getting the word out! #BBCFoodAwards #organic #agroforestry #suffolk #suffolklife #regenerativeagriculture #agroecology @bbcfoodprog @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @wakelynsbakery @realveg_csa @contemporaryhempery @thewoodlandhaberdasher @scankyhippy @hodmedods
Following the success of their 2021 pond restorati Following the success of their 2021 pond restoration project @wakelyns Suffolk Wildlife Trust have applied for planning permission to create two new ponds at Wakelyns in 2023. One will involve digging out a pond that was filled in many years ago, the other a brand new pond using a length of #agroforestry alley which is too small to farm practically. This is all part of supporting and enhancing our Great Crested Newt habitats. And it's being done in conjunction with the local team from the RSPB turtle dove project so that we maximise the extra habitat for our small but growing population of these rare and declining birds. The work is scheduled for February 2023. We'll post more information then. Meanwhile details of the planning application are via the link in our bio. @suffolkwildlifetrust @rspb @natures_voice @wakelyns @amanda_at_wakelyns @bbcfoodprog @transition_woodbridge #suffolk #suffolklife #organic #agroecology #regenerativeagriculture #ponds #greatcrestednewt #BBCFoodAwards
Community Apple Day 2022 @wakelyns was such fun! Community Apple Day 2022 @wakelyns was such fun! 230+ people enjoyed apple walks, willow weaving, crafts, juicing, delicious food from @wakelynsbakery, and much more. Our most successful event yet, with a lovely warm and relaxed atmosphere, helped along by the glorious autumn weather. The Wakelyns team did brilliantly - thanks all! @wakelyns @wakelynsbakery @amanda_at_wakelyns_ @moniquegregson @mariongaze2018 @maisiedyvig @scankyhippy @adamamstar @realveg_csa @thewoodlandhaberdasher @chefrobbie13 @transition_woodbridge @bbcfoodprog #organic #agroforestry #suffolk #suffolklife #BBCFoodAwards
Lovely to welcome to @Wakelyns this afternoon the Lovely to welcome to @Wakelyns this afternoon the Development Studies students from the University of East Anglia. Great to discuss #organic #agroforestry #shortfoodchains #enterprisestacking and how #agroecology can contribute to systems change - farms and farmland producing producing not just food but also helping tackle climate change and the biodiversity crisis; providing employment, homes, wellbeing and much more! #organic #agroforestry #BBCFoodAwards @bbcfoodprog
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or for the Wakelyns Bakery direct:

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