Category: News and events

The Agroforestry ELM Test project is seeking farmers with little or no experience in agroforestry to undertake a video interview (approximately one and a half hours) to gather opinions on the content of agroforestry provision within the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and Local Nature Recovery (LNR) developed by Defra so far.

Extensive, regenerative, organic, short-term leys, permanent pasture, species-rich swards, herbal leys... The options when it comes to low-input systems are incredible. Join the National Sheep Association (NSA), two NSA members and experts in the field…

ReForest has launched! Agroforestry at the forefront of farming sustainability in multifunctional landscapes in Europe – a 4-year Horizon Europe project, bringing together 14 institutions from 10 European countries with extensive expertise in this field.

ORC welcomes Kathrin Heimbach and Christian Gossel and says foodbye to Chiara Tuoni and Ambro Costanzo

Community event to share the work of the Yorkshire Grain Alliance from field to fork. Come and find out how you can get involved!

The Autumn issue of the ORC Bulletin (137) has mailed out! The Summer 2022 issue (No.136) is now available for free download.

Calling UK dairy farmers! You are invited to take part in an online survey on summer mastitis in dairy cattle

Organic September is about celebrating everything organic and the hard work and dedication that goes into growing while working with nature, not against it.

Are you a leafy salad grower interested in trialling peat reduced options? Riverford and the Organic Research Centre are developing a new Innovative Farmers field lab

There are still places available for SRUC’s part-time post-graduate distance learning programme in Organic Farming for the 2022/2023 academic year, starting early September 2022.

The Soil Association, Woodland Trust, Finance Earth, Organic Research Centre and Scottish Rural College (SRUC) have been awarded funding from the Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund to explore the feasibility of developing a carbon code for Agroforestry

Defra are recruiting a chairperson for their Expert Group on Organic Production

Do you know, or are you, a forward-thinking, innovative organic farmer/ grower who is passionate about implementing organic principles, has proven strong leadership skills and deserves recognition for their work? To encourage the emergence of…

The Organic Innovation Days is an annual public event organised by TP Organics and IFOAM Organics Europe. After two virtual editions of our Organic Innovation Days, this year’s edition will take place as a physical…

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

Positive Food Futures is an exciting new programme from the Eden Project for young adults who have a keen interest in the future of food and farming, and how we can make these systems more…

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.