Category: News

The Organic Research Centre and the EU Horizon Europe-funded REFOREST project are looking for agroforestry farmers and stakeholders to be part of the North of England Living Lab.

More organic farming means less pesticide use and risk

Increasing by almost 4%, the European organic market reached another high in 2021: 54.5 billion euros. Organic farmland expanded by almost 0.8 m ha.

The Second year of results from the organic hops field lab are now available to read. This field lab aims to help organic and low-input hop growers find suitable varieties of hops for organic farming. 

UK organic market shows positive and robust growth of 1.6% in 2022 topping £3.1 billion in an unprecedented and challenging year for business and consumers

The study shows that achieving the EU 25% organic farming by 2030 target could make a big difference to the environmental impacts of agriculture.

Conversation Beneath The Trees is a podcast bringing together scientists, farmers and innovators from all around Ireland to share their ideas and experiences of farming with trees.

In the 3rd week of January, Regen Action took place in London. Kathrin Heimbach reports on the discussions.

Would you like to be involved in an on-farm field trial exploring living mulches: direct drilling cash crops into (semi)-permanent established stands of clover?

ORC, through the Organic at the Heart project, helped to deliver the Grain Changers event in York on the 23rd October 2022.

At this years Agronomists’ Conference on December 6th ORC’s Henny Lowth gave a presentation on ‘Reducing artificial inputs’ which covered ORC’s work on living mulches in the Innovative Farmers field lab sponsored by AHDB, and the LiveWheat project.

This Farm Wilder webinar looked at the many benefits trees can bring to livestock systems, with ORC’s Lindsay Whistance

Do you want Government to delay laws to protect your children from junk food advertising by almost three years? We don’t.

The ORC team would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and thank you to everyone that has supported us over the last twelve months, a year that has been very productive for ORC.  

Check out the Trees on Farms podcast mini series from Meet the Farmers – a weekly show that profiles people in the countryside and gives you an insight into food and farming.

Peach Hayne Organics, is UK’s only organic certified Christmas tree farm and family-run in the heart of Devon.

Free webinar on Dec 14 at 7pm organised by Farm Wilder, with funding from Devon County Council, will be led by ORC’s Lindsay Whistance “who has been pivotal in generating the recent upsurge in interest around silvopasture.”

Watch the webinar introducing the Agroforestry Carbon Code project with Soil Association, Woodland Trust, Organic Research Centre. Features ORC’s Will Simonson and Colin Tosh

Soil Association Certification held its annual Organic Trade Conference in October. The line-up featured keynote speaker, Professor Dave Goulson, alongside research experts at The Crow Flies, as well as the latest UK organic market figures from NielsenIQ and many other top industry experts.

The Cotswold Grain network is a group of bakers, farmers, brewers and researchers who want to re-imagine the grain economy in the Cotswold, promoting heritage and non-commodity grains and direct distributing locally.

Today we’re launching The Future of Farming appeal as part of The Big Give Christmas Challenge to enable more famers to farm agroecologically. Donate via the Big Give between 29 Nov & 6 Dec and your donation will be doubled.

ORC is partners in a new Horizon Europe-funded project ‘LIVESEEDING’ – Organic seed and plant breeding to accelerate sustainable and diverse food systems in Europe.

Following the first ever Pitch Up! in November 2021 – which saw a wide range of entries from food, drink and farming to fashion, beauty and leisure businesses – the team at Kingsclere Estates organic, regenerative farm is pleased to announce Pitch Up! 2022.