Category: News

ORC Trustee Christine Watson has been elected to one of the UK’s most prestigious fellowships

Joint winners of the Young Organic Farmer/Grower of the Year 2024 announced: Adam Beer and Rita Oldenbourg from Pitney Farm Market Garden in Somerset and Chris Gospel: beef, sheep and arable farmer in Aberdeenshire.

TP Organics has compiled key messages and concepts in support of organic farming and its role on fostering long-term food security in Europe

Shortlist of nominees for ORC’s young Organic Farmer/Growerof the Year 2024 have been announced

Researchers from ORC recently attended the European Agroforestry Federation Conference in Brno

The Final Report of the Agroecological Intelligence Project: ‘Establishing Criteria for Agroecologically Appropriate Technology’ has been published by A Bigger Conversation.

ORC is part of TALC – a new UK-based collective of agroecological trainers, mentors, advisors, centres of learning and demonstration farms working together to share and deliver skills and knowledge.

ORC were at Wakelyns – the home of agroforestry – for the Agroforestry Open Weekend and report on recent developments.

Interested in agroforestry? Come along to our free Agroforestry Design Clinic at Groundswell and get advice from the experts.

Julia Cooper features on this AWE International podcast – and addresses the myths and mistrust around organic produce.

To secure resources and sites for field testing for the Feed the Soil project we need to raise the final £20,000 by the end of May 2024!

Marking 30 years of agroforestry at Wakelyns, this revised edition of Resilience Through Diversity celebrates the work of Martin and Ann, fellow researchers from the Organic Research Centre and the wider research and Wakelyns community; as evolved and expanded by their son David Wolfe and his wife Amanda from 2020.

ORC research for CPRE reveals which parts of England would benefit most from the creation of new hedgerows

Please help us reach our £100,000 target. Take advantage of your donation being doubled before the campaign ends at midday on Thursday 25th. 

ORC is proud to have been part of the Innovative Farmers Organic hop varieties field lab which identified 3 varieties well-suited to organic systems

This spring REFOREST researchers have been assessing soil health in agroforestry systems using a range of practical measures.

We have extended the YOFGY application deadline to 10th May 2024. Apply or nominate someone now!

At its first annual conference, UK ORGANIC (formerly Organic Trade Board / OTB) set out its ambition to unite representatives across the supply chain to reenergise the organic sector and arrest the current volume decline the industry has been experiencing.

This Agroecology: strengthening livelihoods webinar was an informative and practical discussion on the benefits and practicalities of making and using tree hay, featuring Lynbreck Croft, Tap o’ North Farm, and Dr Lindsay Whistance of the Organic Research Centre.

ORC is taking part in the Big Give Green Match Fund campaign again this year. This time to raise £100,000 in just one week for our Feed the Soil project.

New booklet outlines the vision of the Yorkshire Grain Alliance of a resilient, human scale food system for the future

Soil Association Certification’s Organic Market Report shows that UK organic market has grown 2% in 2023 but organic farming stuck at 3% of UK farmland

The Organic Growers Alliance (OGA) have teamed up with James Butterworth of Cotswold Market Garden, to produce a podcast on organic horticulture, called the Organic Grower Podcast.

At the end of January Will Simonson visited the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Colombia to attend a workshop on silvopasture design.