Scientific study shows synthetic pesticides significantly more dangerous than natural ones
More organic farming means less pesticide use and risk
The Scottish Real Bread Festival 2023
Come to Bowhouse for a brand new festival celebrating all things Real Bread, packed with workshops, talks, hands-on activity and the results of the 2023 Scottish Bread Championship.
European organic farmland and market continued to grow in 2021
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.
Diversifying our approach to cereal breeding with plant populations
This webinar aims to give an overview of current research on plant populations, what this approach can offer, what we still need to understand and how we might get policymakers to support wider use of such genetically diverse cereals.
Organic Hop Varieties field lab two year report
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.
Organic market delivers strong performance in exceptionally challenging year
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
ORFC in the Field: Biodynamics and Permaculture Design at Huxhams Cross Farm
Come and join leading practitioners for two days of hands-on workshops that explore how biodynamic principles and practice and permaculture design can be used at farm scale, and combined to create resilient, productive, financially viable farms that support biodiversity and serve the wider community.
RAMIRAN Conference
The theme of the RAMIRAN Conference for 2023 is ‘managing organic resources in a changing environment’. RAMIRAN is inviting research abstracts relating to the use of organic materials, from theory to implementation and adoption by stakeholders.
Study on the environmental impacts of achieving 25% organic land in the EU by 2030 published
The study shows that achieving the EU 25% organic farming by 2030 target could make a big difference to the environmental impacts of agriculture.
Agroforestry Open Weekend 2023
The Agroforestry Open Weekend is back in 2023 – May 19th to 21st – and it’s bigger than ever, with more than 35 farms taking part from the UK, Ireland and beyond!