Defra are recruiting a chairperson for their Expert Group on Organic Production
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
Watch videos of sessions with ORC involvement at Groundswell – The regenerative agriculture show and conference- held in Hertfordshire June 22nd 2022
On the first of July we say goodbye to Senior Crops Researcher Dominic Amos after six and a half years at ORC.
ORC was represented at the Sixth European Agroforestry Conference (EURAF 2022), which took place in Nuoro, Sardinia from 16-20th May 2022
The Summer issue of the ORC Bulletin (136) has mailed out! The Spring 2022 issue (No.135) is now available for free download.
BIOFACH – the World´s leading trade fair for organic food is back! The organic trade meets at the organic exhibition in Nuremberg, Germany and online from 26 – 29 July 2022.
Defra’s Food Strategy White Paper fails to acknowledge or address the breadth of issues facing the food system
ORC Trustee Professor Janet Dwyer has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2022
This year’s face to face annual Farm Woodland Forum meeting focuses on the increased adoption and expansion of agroforestry in the UK and Ireland.
GM tomato won’t address the problem of vitamin D deficiency because poor nutrition is a function of poverty and a broken food system says GM Freeze
OF&G (Organic Farmers & Growers) has expressed serious concern over Defra’s introduction of their Genetic Technology Bill that received its first reading in Parliament today.
We would like to thank everybody who supported our Climate Friendly Farming appeal
The Land SKills Fair is LWA’s largest major gathering and will provide a space for upskilling for the agroecological transition as well as growing a diverse and people centred farming movement.
