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Wakelyns is 56 acre agroforestry farm in Suffolk run by David Wolfe and Amanda Illing. It was set up originally by David's parents as an experiment into how agroforestry could be used to improve productivity on British farms. Now David and Amanda have started on a journey to make this small farm into a viable business. To do this they have gathered many other businesses together - all based around produce from the farm. A bakery uses the cereals, fruits and nut; a community supported agriculture scheme has been set up between some of the aisles of trees to produce veg boxes for locale people; an artist is growing hemp to make clothes for Fashion Week.

David says: "For my parents it was very much a project around improving farming productivity. For us, we see this piece of land as much more socially useful. We see it as being about producing food but also about producing craft products, about employing people, about housing people, about climate change, about tackling the biodiversity crisis."

Wakelyns has been chosen by Charlotte Smith as one of the three finalists in the "Farming for the Future" category of this year's 麻豆社 Food and Farming Awards. In this programme, she visits the farm to find out how it's system of "enterprise stacking" works.

Presented by Charlotte Smith
Produced by Heather Simons