Tag: Knowledge Exchange

Building English Shelterbelt Trials for Productivity (BEST) is an ADOPT-funded, farmer-led trial investigating the benefits to livestock systems from the presence of improved hedgerow/windbreaks.

ORC will work with Gowbarrow Hall Farm in Cumbria to adapt and demonstrate an upland agroforestry model that integrates fruit and nut trees into cattle grazing systems to improve farm resilience, biodiversity and water management.

This project explores how the government’s targets of creating or restoring 30,000 miles of hedgerow by 2037 and 45,000 by 2050 can become a reality, looking at the opportunities and also potential barriers to achieving this goal.

H2021 European project OPER8 will share guidance and advice on effective alternative methods of weed control to herbicides, such as biological. cultural and mechanical techniques which are proven to be effective on farm against key weeds.

The Organic at the Heart project aims to build communities around environmentally friendly farming through the development and demonstration of local hubs that embody the Organic Principles of Health, Ecology, Fairness and Care.

Sharing knowledge and evidence of the value of agroforestry through a network of farms and initiatives across the UK working to balance the objectives of simultaneously and sustainably growing food, transition to the new ELM Scheme and contribute to ‘public goods.’

Agricology was established by ORC with the aim of providing farmers and growers with trusted, practical information to support the transition to more sustainable and resilient farming systems.