Category: News and events

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.

Hosted by Tim May at Kingsclere, this afternoon farm walk will focus on Spring crop establishment, competitive cultivars and weed management strategies.

Sustainable agriculture specialist Dr Leo Faedo presents his successful system for choosing and applying remedies for healthy crops & plants in this Whole Health Agriculture webinar.

The second edition of Organic Europe Youth Event (OEYE) will be held on 8-9 July 2024, in Bari, Italy with an optional excursion on the 10 July. I

Join us for an evening of talks on implementing living mulches in arable and horticultural farming systems.

EURAF 2024 in Czech Republic: Regenerating landscapes and diversifying production in Europe through Agroforestry

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

The Organic Trade Board will be officially launching UK Organic on 14th March, with results from consumer research conducted in partnership with ORC

Join the Perennial Green Manures Project for the launch of a new video

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.

SAVE THE DATES — OF&G National Organic Conference at Tim May’s Kingsclere Estate in Hampshire – 1-2 July 2024

Interested in farming with trees or already planning a project? Come to this Forest for Cornwall event at Rosuick Organic Farm and find out how they can support you and get inspirational advice and experience from local farm agroforestry projects.

AGROMIX study demonstrates that agroforestry systems represent a valuable habitat for breeding birds in European agricultural landscapes.

The Biological Husbandry Unit (BHU) in New Zealand have recently published a new comprehensive guide to electrical weed management (EWM), written for farmers, growers and other land managers, as well as scientists and engineers working with EWM

A review of the 12th edition of the Organic Farm Management Handbook by Marianne Landzettel

Join this webinar to learn about the work of the Agroecology Research Collaboration, find out how they are building stronger links between farmers and researchers, and how you can get involved!

Soil Association webinar for organic, low input and in-conversion farms covering new SFI and CSS funding options tailored to the horticultural sector.

A webinar for organic, low input and in-conversion farms to highlight changes in farming support payments.

The Agroforestry Open Weekend is back in 2024 – May 17th to 20th