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Cover of alley planting guide with trees in rows and crops in between

Alley planting
Technical Guides
Woodland Trust factsheet on alley planting produced with the help of Lindsay Whistance
Cover of Shelterbelts resource

Shelterbelts
Technical Guides
Woodland Trust factsheet on shelterbelts produced with the help of Lindsay Whistance
Drying beans on the plant

Full of Beans! Integrating dried beans into your crop rotation
Video
This session at the Organic Growers Gathering in 2024 explored the potential and challenges of integrating more dried beans into arable and horticultural crop rotations.
Cows grazing under trees

Agroforestry Research and the REFOREST Project
Video
Tom Staton of Reading University and Will Simonson of the ORC review the latest findings from the REFOREST project in this Pasture for Life webinar
Jake Freestone standing at a podium in front of a slide

From Paper to Practice: The Living Mulch Journey
Video
Jake Freestone in conversation with Julia Cooper on how he has worked collaboratively to integrate living mulches into his farming system
Rowan speaking to Organic Farm Management Handbook slide in packed hall

The missing numbers: Addressing financial data gaps in agroecological farming
Video
In this session at Cultivating Wisdom ORC’s Rowan Dumper-Pollard and Landworkers’ Alliance’s (LWA) Bee Laughton discussed addressing the financial data gaps in organic and agroecological farming.
Dominic and Charlotte in front of a packed hall

Live Crop: A networked approach to variety testing on-farm that delivers real world Results
Video
Dominic Amos and Charlotte Bickler reflect on the benefits of working with farmers in a real world context to test cerealvarieties
Organic hops

Organic hop varieties field lab
Video
This is a recording of the Organic Hops Field Lab workshop held at the Organic Growers Gathering 2024.
tree strip with wild flowers in an arable field

Biotic stress and yield stability in English organic silvoarable agroforestry
Research Publications
Paper written by Colin Tosh, Tom Staton, Ambrogio Costanzo and Will Simonson arising from the Agromix project published in the journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development.
Part of front cover of report showing organic consumers, an organic field and logos of author organisations

Marketing organic: Consumer insights report
Research Publications
UK Organic and ORC report - an in-depth analysis of UK consumer attitudes, behaviours, and knowledge regarding organic products.
Report cover and text over a picture of plums

Organic consumers – tips for retailers
Better Food Traders, ORC and UK Organic report with tips and advice for food retailers on how to market to organic shoppers.
Healthy soil in a fertility ley

Groundswell 2024: Living Mulches – The Future for Arable
Video
Recording of the workshop at Groundswell 2024 on iving mulches with ORC's Matt Smee and Matt England of the Fring Estate.