Distance learning Organic Farming programme - Places available for September
There are still places available for SRUC’s part-time post-graduate distance learning programme in Organic Farming for the 2022/2023 academic year, starting early September 2022.
Exploring opportunities for an Agroforestry Carbon Code
The Soil Association, Woodland Trust, Finance Earth, Organic Research Centre and Scottish Rural College (SRUC) have been awarded funding from the Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund to explore the feasibility of developing a carbon code for Agroforestry
Defra's Expert Group on Organic Production (EGOP) seeks a Chair
Defra are recruiting a chairperson for their Expert Group on Organic Production
Nominations are open for the Organic Research Centre’s Young Organic Farmer/ Grower of the Year Award for 2022
Organic Innovation Days 2022
Agroforestry Design Masterclass
Looking to integrate trees into your farming business but don’t know which trees to plant, how many, or where? Unsure about fencing, or how to market your tree products?
Organic Matters 2022
Organic Matters 2022, organised by the Organic Growers Alliance (OGA) will be a day long event for experienced horticulturalists and new entrants based at the Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) in Birmingham.
Farmer-led research gets Royal backing
The Duke of Cornwall joined 150 people in Cornwall on Tuesday 19 July as they celebrated a “remarkable” 10 years of farmer-led research with the Innovative Farmers network.
Farmers urged to capitalise on organic’s potential
Delegates at the UK’s largest organic conference, OF&G’s National Organic Combinable Crops (NOCC) heard how market opportunity, and increased recognition of organic’s benefits, should encourage increases in organic agricultural land area.
“ I 💚 my soil” - Groundswell 2022 lived up to its motto
Loving soil wasn’t just this year’s Groundswell slogan, it was the topic, in depth and from the ground up, in practice and in theory, in detail, from a global and from a bird’s eye perspective. Marianne Landzettel blogs for ORC.