Category: News and events

The Agroforestry Open Weekend is back in 2023 – May 19th to 21st – and it’s bigger than ever, with more than 35 farms taking part from the UK, Ireland and beyond!

This is a webinar led by the EU Horizon Europe LIVESEEDING project. The aim of the workshop is to detect techno-economic challenges that organic seed producers currently face.

BIOFACH in Nuremberg is the place where people share their passionate interest in organic food, get to know each other and exchange views.

Conversation Beneath The Trees is a podcast bringing together scientists, farmers and innovators from all around Ireland to share their ideas and experiences of farming with trees.

In the 3rd week of January, Regen Action took place in London. Kathrin Heimbach reports on the discussions.

Would you like to be involved in an on-farm field trial exploring living mulches: direct drilling cash crops into (semi)-permanent established stands of clover?

Join us for AGROMIX workshop on Agroforestry land use policies in England!

ORC, through the Organic at the Heart project, helped to deliver the Grain Changers event in York on the 23rd October 2022.

At this years Agronomists’ Conference on December 6th ORC’s Henny Lowth gave a presentation on ‘Reducing artificial inputs’ which covered ORC’s work on living mulches in the Innovative Farmers field lab sponsored by AHDB, and the LiveWheat project.

This Farm Wilder webinar looked at the many benefits trees can bring to livestock systems, with ORC’s Lindsay Whistance

Do you want Government to delay laws to protect your children from junk food advertising by almost three years? We don’t.

The ORC team would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and thank you to everyone that has supported us over the last twelve months, a year that has been very productive for ORC.  

Check out the Trees on Farms podcast mini series from Meet the Farmers – a weekly show that profiles people in the countryside and gives you an insight into food and farming.

Peach Hayne Organics, is UK’s only organic certified Christmas tree farm and family-run in the heart of Devon.

Free webinar on Dec 14 at 7pm organised by Farm Wilder, with funding from Devon County Council, will be led by ORC’s Lindsay Whistance “who has been pivotal in generating the recent upsurge in interest around silvopasture.”

Watch the webinar introducing the Agroforestry Carbon Code project with Soil Association, Woodland Trust, Organic Research Centre. Features ORC’s Will Simonson and Colin Tosh

Soil Association Certification held its annual Organic Trade Conference in October. The line-up featured keynote speaker, Professor Dave Goulson, alongside research experts at The Crow Flies, as well as the latest UK organic market figures from NielsenIQ and many other top industry experts.

The Cotswold Grain network is a group of bakers, farmers, brewers and researchers who want to re-imagine the grain economy in the Cotswold, promoting heritage and non-commodity grains and direct distributing locally.

Today we’re launching The Future of Farming appeal as part of The Big Give Christmas Challenge to enable more famers to farm agroecologically. Donate via the Big Give between 29 Nov & 6 Dec and your donation will be doubled.

Mixedness from concepts to action: towards shared definitions and challenge identification at different levels

ORC is partners in a new Horizon Europe-funded project ‘LIVESEEDING’ – Organic seed and plant breeding to accelerate sustainable and diverse food systems in Europe.

Following the first ever Pitch Up! in November 2021 – which saw a wide range of entries from food, drink and farming to fashion, beauty and leisure businesses – the team at Kingsclere Estates organic, regenerative farm is pleased to announce Pitch Up! 2022.

The Organic Research Centre and Agricology were partners in the Organic Growers Alliance’s recent Organic Matters conference held at the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham on October 18th.