Tag: Agroforestry

ORC highlights from Groundswell 2024 including agroforestry, Wakelyns 30 years celebration, living mulches and regen ag research priorities

ORC’s Christian Gossel reports back on the key messages from the 38th annual meeting of the Farm Woodland Forum

ORC will be at Carbon Calling 2-4 August in Cumbria running a workshop ‘Trees and Livestock: a balancing act’

Save the date for the second Agroforestry Show with The Woodland Trust and the Soil Association at Woodoaks Farm in Hertfordshire

Researchers from ORC recently attended the European Agroforestry Federation Conference in Brno

ReForest webinar for farmers, advisors, researchers, policymakers, and others on the practical applications of the FarmTree Tool

ORC were at Wakelyns – the home of agroforestry – for the Agroforestry Open Weekend and report on recent developments.

Interested in agroforestry? Come along to our free Agroforestry Design Clinic at Groundswell and get advice from the experts.

Come along to this Woodland Trust day to learn more about how trees can be incorporated on farm.

Marking 30 years of agroforestry at Wakelyns, this revised edition of Resilience Through Diversity celebrates the work of Martin and Ann, fellow researchers from the Organic Research Centre and the wider research and Wakelyns community; as evolved and expanded by their son David Wolfe and his wife Amanda from 2020.

ORC research for CPRE reveals which parts of England would benefit most from the creation of new hedgerows

The 2024 Farm Woodland Forum Meeting will bring together researchers and practitioners across the UK who are advancing the practice of agroforestry for food production, reducing farm-level net greenhouse gas emissions, and enhancing biodiversity.

This spring REFOREST researchers have been assessing soil health in agroforestry systems using a range of practical measures.

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

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

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

Join Agroecology: strengthening livelihoods for an informative and practical online discussion on the benefits and practicalities of making and using tree hay

The ‘AGROMIX Summit: Agroforestry for the future of European Agriculture’ aims to facilitate and incentivise the adoption of Mixed Farming and Agroforestry systems under EU legislation.

Defra announces payments for agroforestry. Colin Tosh and Will Simonson unpick the detail.

Report from the REFOREST North of England Agroforestry Living Lab meet up at the beautiful Gowbarrow Hall Farm in the Lake District, hosted by Sam and Claire Beaumont.