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British-grown Pulses & Grains. We work with farmers to provide quinoa, beans & peas, pulse flours, canned pulses, roasted snacks, puffed & flaked grains.

Early in 2012, working with Transition Norwich, we came across dried fava beans as part of a project looking at the ingredients for a more sustainable and resilient diet. The beans are grown widely in East Anglia and exported all over the world where they're enjoyed in a multitude of traditional recipes - including ful medames, houmous, falafel, crisp snacks, soups, stews, curry and dal...

Yet in Britain they're used as animal feed (and as a useful break crop that fixes nitrogen). It seems that three or four hundred years ago we simply lost our taste for the humble fava bean, preferring legumes like lentils and chickpeas which are hard to grow in the UK. We ran a trial and gave away or sold 2 tonnes of beans - people loved them! And so in the Autumn of 2012, with the new season bean harvest, we launched Hodmedod Ltd - Now everyone can share in the delights of the fava bean...

Since 2012 we've pioneered British-grown quinoa and added a much wider range of peas and beans (including organic, canned prepared foods and snacks). There's a lot more to come! (Hodmedod is a local dialect word - in Suffolk it means snail and in Norfolk hedgehog)

15/10/2026

What kind of recipes can you find in our new book Whole Food? 📖🍴

Whole Food is a deep dive into rich, sustaining cooking using British-grown grains, pulses, and seeds. The recipes are flexitarian, mostly vegetarian with plenty of vegan options, showing just how versatile pulses, grains and seeds from British arable crops can be.

The book is divided into nine delicious chapters that explore soups, broths & gruels; stews, ragus & pottages; porridges & dals; going beyond rice; fritters & fries; salads, dips and snacks; bread, pastas & noodles; and cakes, biscuits & sweets.

Among the many tempting dishes inspired by our culinary history and food cultures around the world, you’ll find:

🥣 Soups, broths & gruels explores one of humanity's oldest culinary inventions: soaking and simmering hard grains and pulses to unlock their nutrients without needing complex mills or ovens. This chapter spans time-tested global traditions, featuring nourishing bowls like Barley & Oat Gruel with Brown Butter Leeks, hearty Scotch Broth & Bannocks, and a classic Mexican Sopa de Habas.

🌾Beyond Rice swaps standard white rice for British-grown grains with serious character. You will see these crops shine in dishes like Orzotto Primavera and a hearty Pea, Pancetta & Pecorino Speltotto, bringing incredible chew, nuttiness, and texture to your plate.

🍞 Bread, Pastas & Noodles showcases how diverse grain, seed and pulse flours elevate simple doughs. This section includes delicious bakes like Rustic Rye Sourdough, Flaky Emmer Parathas, and super speedy 10-Minute Pea Flatbreads that require no resting or proving.

https://hodmedods.co.uk/products/whole-food

14/10/2026

We're looking for someone to join the packing team at our warehouse and offices in Brampton, near Beccles, Suffolk.

Find out more about the role and how to apply (by 5pm on Wednesday 28th October) at https://hodmedods.co.uk/pages/work-for-us

Hodmedod is a small but rapidly growing company specialising in sourcing and selling minimally processed whole foods from UK farms - beans, peas, grains and seeds. We've won a hat-full of awards and plaudits for our work and our purpose - we're helping to change the way people eat and farm for the better.

In our Brampton office and warehouse we store products in bulk, pack retail and catering packs, mill flour, blend mixes and pack up and send out orders.

We are an equal opportunities employer, a Living Wage Employer, and aim to provide a friendly and flexible workplace.

14/10/2026

Big news for school dinners! 🍽️🫘

We are delighted to see the UK government recognise the power of pulses, wholegrains and fibre in the updated school food standards! Under the new guidelines, school menus will be required to boost fibre levels, increase wholegrains and serve at least one portion of pulses within or alongside all menu options on one day a week.

With 86% of children in the UK currently not eating enough fibre, a vital nutrient for digestive health, this is a huge step in the right direction.

If you're looking for inspiration on how to make this transition seamless (and delicious!), look no further than . James has been doing incredible work bringing British pulses to school kitchens, using familiar favourites to introduce children to nutritious whole foods. He has a wealth of wisdom to share on feeding young people well.

Read our blog: 'How to transform school meals? Beans is how!' https://hodmedods.co.uk/blogs/news/how-to-transform-school-meals-beans-is-how
You'll discover James's insights alongside some of his tried-and-tested school recipes, including:

🌱 Lentil & Chickpea Lasagne
🫘 House-Baked Beans with British Flamingo & Yellow Peas
🌶️ Fragrant Chana Masala

Let’s get more pulses on plates and bang in some beans for the next generation! 💪🫘

We're also proud to support and their campaign as part of this movement to boost children's fibre intake.

12/10/2026

🫘📻🎶 Musical fruit? Help us build a inspired tracklist for !

Hodmedod co-founder .saltmarsh is heading in to the BBC Radio 6 Music studio this Sunday! He’ll be chatting with the brilliant around 11am about our brand-new book, Whole Food. 📚✨

Cerys has asked us to suggest 5 tracks for the show, and we’d love your help putting together the perfect playlist! 🎶 We’re starting off strong with Johnny Cash’s cover of Look at Them Beans by Joe Tex 🤠🫘, but what else should make the cut?

Drop your best pulse-pounding, crop-inspired or wholefood-themed track suggestions in the comments! 👇🎧

And tune to BBC Radio 6 Music / BBC Sounds this Sunday at 11am!

10/10/2026

We don’t like to brag, but… some very smart people have said some lovely things about our new book Whole Food. 💚

Whole Food is out now! Follow the link below to order signed copies direct from us (plus free £5 voucher) or find it in good bookshops everywhere and the usual online places
https://hodmedods.co.uk/products/whole-food

09/10/2026

Our Hodmedod Bakehouse YQ Sourdough Starter is now certified organic! 💚 🎉 ✅

Crafted in small batches by Hodmedod baker Henrietta Inman this stiff starter is the very same starter used to bake all of our fresh sourdough loaves! It’s incredibly resilient, easy to maintain, and designed to live right on your kitchen shelf - no fridge required!

It’s fed on Organic Wholemeal YQ Wheat Flour, stone-milled from grain grown in Suffolk's Deben valley. Bred at Wakelyns Agroforestry, YQ (Yield & Quality) is revolutionary grain - not a monoculture like other wheat crops, it’s an amazingly diverse population of genetically distinct wheat plants. The genetic diversity brings resilience to the crop, delivers a complex, deeply nutty flavour to the flour, and makes loaves that keep beautifully.

Each starter comes complete with Henrietta’s step-by-step care guide and her signature recipe for a 100% wholemeal sourdough tin loaf.

🥖 Prefer to leave the baking to us? If you’re short on time (or patience!), you can also order our freshly baked wholemeal YQ and rye loaves directly from the bakery.

📦 Weekly delivery: Hodmedod Bakehouse starter and fresh loaves are freshly prepared/baked for dispatch every Thursday for next-day delivery on the Friday.

⏰ Order Deadline: Place your order for starters and loaves by 12 noon on Monday for dispatch that same week!

https://hodmedods.co.uk/products/yq-sourdough-starter-wholemeal

08/10/2026

🎉📚 OUT TODAY! Our book Whole Food 📖✨

We still can’t quite believe it but our book has been officially released into the wild today!

We owe massive, heart-felt THANK YOU to every single person who pre-ordered a copy - your early support means the absolute world to us. But if you haven’t ordered already now’s the time!

👉 Order a signed copy direct from https://hodmedods.co.uk/book or you can of course buy in good bookshops everywhere and the usual places online - we recommend https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/hodmedods

But honestly? Today is about so much more than just a book. This milestone belongs to all of you who have backed us over the years.

Whether you’ve bought a single packet of our British-grown lentils. Or ranted passionately to a friend about beans and "this quirky little company with the funny name". Or stopped us at a noisy food festival just to say hello and share your favourite recipe. Or generously shared a Hodmedod gift voucher to spread the word. Or tagged us in your gorgeous dinner photos on social media…
..you’ve built this with us. Every single pulse, grain or seed cooked, each shared post, and every conversation started has made a genuine difference. You’ve helped us champion British agroecology in the field and bring delicious, nutritious whole foods to people’s plates.

We couldn't do any of this without our amazing community. Raise a glass (or a bowl of fava beans) with us today, here’s to the journey so far, and to many more delicious chapters ahead!

07/10/2026

Our book Whole Food is out tomorrow and we’ve a lot of people to thank…

Hodmedod grew from a simple idea almost 20 years ago, that getting more British-grown pulses into our kitchens could be part of a more resilient and sustainable food system.

Whole Food represents our mission: to bring forgotten, neglected and new crops back onto our plates, making connections between farmers and all of us who eat the food they grow, celebrating the joy of well produced simple ingredients.

None of this would have been possible without everyone who believed in us and pushed us forward, intellectually and practically.

A seed can only grow with strong roots. Our incredible network of farmers is truly the root of it all. They’ve taken risks, experimented with crops like quinoa and lentils, and shared their knowledge. Their dedication has been fundamental to all we’ve achieved.

It takes a whole ecosystem: the hauliers, crop cleaners, millers and processors; the cooks, bakers and makers; the thinkers and campaigners whose ideas inspire and motivate us.

And nothing would happen without the small but mighty Hodmedod team, their hard work in the warehouse, mill, bakehouse, packing rooms and offices, and everything in between that keeps us moving.

Thank you to all for your incredible support and for showing what is possible.

Whole Food is a celebration of this incredible, vibrant community. Here’s to many more years of growing, cooking and eating together!

06/10/2026

We’ve always loved the solitary pleasure of reading cookbooks for inspiration and insights into different ingredients and ways of cooking. What we didn’t realise, until we set out to make one, is that writing a cookbook is a very different beast!

It turns out that bringing British-grown pulses, grains, and sustainable whole foods from field to page takes a small army of wildly talented, endlessly patient people who truly believe in what we wanted to achieve. We couldn’t be more grateful to the incredible team who helped bring the Hodmedod’s Whole Food cookbook to life.

Huge love and heartfelt thanks to everyone who poured their heart, soul, and hard work into these pages:

🫘Editorial Team: Our commissioning editor Cara Armstrong for inviting and championing our idea for the book, and Izzy Holton and Lucy Kingett for keeping us on track, making it all work, and wrangling every last word.
🫘 Recipe Developer: Craig Morrison for turning our ideas into pure culinary magic.
🫘Photographer: Joe Woodhouse for making every single dish look as delicious as it tasted.
🫘 Designers: Tania Gomes, Abi Hartshorne and illustrator Sarah Wisbey for giving the book such a gorgeous, vibrant look that beautifully conveys the joy of cooking with whole foods.
🫘Styling Dream Team: Food stylist Caitlin Macdonald and her assistant Emma Cantlay, and prop stylist Rachel Vere, for bringing the recipes to life and setting the scene so perfectly.
🫘Publishing Team: Everyone at DK Publishing, for believing in our ethos and guiding us through the madness from start to finish.

Whole Food is out on Thursday, follow the link in our bio to order your copy 👆

06/10/2026

Growing the impossible?

👀 Check out the latest magazine for the brilliant ’s exploration of initiatives to get new crops growing on British farms, from olives to tea to chickpeas… 💚

Read about our ongoing work to get chickpeas back into British fields. It’s a challenging task but we’re persisting and have a decent harvest from this year’s crops - the chickpeas are just in from cleaning and will be packed and available to order very soon.

Dried peas and fava beans will remain the main pulse crops in the UK but there are many exciting opportunities to get more diversity into arable rotations: British-grown lentils, quinoa and chia weren’t commercially grown here when we started Hodmedod but are now among our regular products thanks to our network of pioneering farmers.

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The Bean Store, Brampton Depot
Beccles
NR348DQ

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+441986467567

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https://hodmedods.co.uk/welcome

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