Category: News and events

Defra backs English farmers to unlock the growing organic market, creating stronger farm businesses and more homegrown food

Join us at The Great Project at the RAU to explore composting tips from expert farmers for better soil and crop health!

Join this Organic Research Centre and Organic Growers Alliance (OGA) webinar to learn about composting techniques to boost soil and crop health.

Dr Julia Cooper updates us on the GreenGrass project and improving resilience on dairy farms in challenging times

Phil Sumption blogs on ORC’s work on the organic market over the last 46 years, as Organic September draws to a close.

Agricology’s new Soil Health Hub brings together practical resources to help farmers build healthier soils

Join the UK’s largest agroecology gathering, in-person or online, as ORFC returns for its 18th year!

New Wakelyns Tree Management Booklet highlights the challenges and changes in tree management over the years.

This Re-Livestock webinar will explore innovative strategies for how free-range pigs can contribute more actively to their own nutrition by foraging above and below ground

Join the WINN-ORGANIC webinar to explore how life- and planet-centred innovation can help turn new ideas, technologies and collaborative approaches into practical solutions for the organic sector. 

Colin Tosh went to the Euopean Agroforestry Federation 2026 conference to find the latest research on what agroforestry actually does for biodiversity

Visit Fraser Farms to explore regenerative organic farming, local grain networks and links with human health.

Glastonbury Nut Farm open day and live demonstration of the AMB Rousset X15 Harvester, supported by ADOPT

Fields Good is a one-day festival on the Glenarm Estate in Northern Ireland, featuring ORC’s Lindsay Whistance

A new paper from the AGROMIX project, led by Maria Raimondo with ORC’s Rowan Dumper-Pollard cited as a co-author, looks at what influences farmers’ decisions to adopt and maintain agroforestry.

As the Liveseeding project comes to an end Christian Gossel looks back at the insights gained from conducting decentralised strip trials of multiple organic winter wheat varieties.

This session from Groundswell explored the question: How can nuts be harvested efficiently under UK conditions?

Julia Cooper updates us on the vermicomposting trials as part of the Feed the Soil project

Agroforestry is predicted to protect English arable crops from climate change, but Colin Tosh suggests that the reason why may surprise you

Phil Sumption blogs about a pioneering project on organic weed management that brought farmers, researchers and stakeholders together.

The outcomes of ORC’s project Early indicators to monitor changes in soil health: evidence to update guidance for UK farmers, have been published on the AHDB website.

IFOAM Organics Europe discussion. How to incentivise diverse and climate-resilient farming systems?

Watch this ORC/Soil Association webinar discussing the evidence for certified organic farming’s contribution to environmental outcomes.

Philippa Hall reflects on new evidence presented at Groundswell that challenges our perception of hedges