Category: News

We are thrilled to announce that renowned environmentalist and campaigner, Vicki Hird, has joined the Organic Research Centre as a Trustee.

Report from OF&G’s 17th annual National Organic Conference (NOC), hosted by Tim May at the Kingsclere Estate in Hampshire

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

Dr Julia Cooper writes to the new Defra Secretary and Farming Minister, urging them to read ‘Six Inches of Soil’

As part of our Marketing of Organics project we are looking to recruit participants for a survey on people’s organic buying habits. Can you help – either by signing up, or passing it on to others?

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

ORC Trustee Christine Watson has been elected to one of the UK’s most prestigious fellowships

Joint winners of the Young Organic Farmer/Grower of the Year 2024 announced: Adam Beer and Rita Oldenbourg from Pitney Farm Market Garden in Somerset and Chris Gospel: beef, sheep and arable farmer in Aberdeenshire.

TP Organics has compiled key messages and concepts in support of organic farming and its role on fostering long-term food security in Europe

Shortlist of nominees for ORC’s young Organic Farmer/Growerof the Year 2024 have been announced

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

The Final Report of the Agroecological Intelligence Project: ‘Establishing Criteria for Agroecologically Appropriate Technology’ has been published by A Bigger Conversation.

ORC is part of TALC – a new UK-based collective of agroecological trainers, mentors, advisors, centres of learning and demonstration farms working together to share and deliver skills and knowledge.

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.

Julia Cooper features on this AWE International podcast – and addresses the myths and mistrust around organic produce.

To secure resources and sites for field testing for the Feed the Soil project we need to raise the final £20,000 by the end of May 2024!

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

Please help us reach our £100,000 target. Take advantage of your donation being doubled before the campaign ends at midday on Thursday 25th. 

ORC is proud to have been part of the Innovative Farmers Organic hop varieties field lab which identified 3 varieties well-suited to organic systems

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

We have extended the YOFGY application deadline to 10th May 2024. Apply or nominate someone now!