Growing Grains: Farm, Health and Local Food Networks
Visit Fraser Farms to explore regenerative organic farming, local grain networks and links with human health.
What have we learnt from eight years of decentralised organic winter wheat trials?
As the Liveseeding project comes to an end Christian Gossel looks back at the insights gained from conducting decentralised strip trials of multiple organic winter wheat varieties.
Diversification, integration and participation – Let’s Liberate Diversity!
Julia Cooper attended the 15th Let’s Liberate Diversity! Forum in Scandicci near Florence.
New 2026 version – Wakelyns Agroforestry: Resilience through diversity
This revised edition of Resilience Through Diversity celebrates the work of Martin and Ann Wolfe with ORC includes updates to the evolving community of stacked enterprises at Wakelyns.
Baking a better tomorrow
To mark Real Bread Week with support from ORC – UK Grain Lab, The Real Bread Campaign and Better Food Traders are launching ‘Baking a better tomorrow’
Yorkshire Grain Alliance videos
Series of 8 short videos from York University’s Fix our Food Project where they talk to members of the Yorkshire Grain Alliance
Grain changers harvest first northern England trial
Giulia Kessous writes on a cultivar testing and breeding initiative in Yorkshire, which could spark the growth of a diverse local grain food economy
ORFC in the Field at Wakelyns
From silvohorticulture, silvoarable and silvopasture to soil health and tree maintenance, join us at ORFC in the Field at Wakelyns, where you will be tutored by some of the country’s leading experts in agroforestry.
FiBL Open Day – Organic transformation of food systems
Join FiBL researchers from all over Europe for this virtual open day exploring the latest developments in organic research
National Organic Conference: “Now the organic sector must act with purpose”
Report from OF&G’s 17th annual National Organic Conference (NOC), hosted by Tim May at the Kingsclere Estate in Hampshire
ORC at Groundswell 2024
ORC highlights from Groundswell 2024 including agroforestry, Wakelyns 30 years celebration, living mulches and regen ag research priorities
New updated version – Wakelyns Agroforestry: Resilience through diversity
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.
Yorkshire Grain Alliance
New booklet outlines the vision of the Yorkshire Grain Alliance of a resilient, human scale food system for the future
National Organic Conference – Food, Farming, Nature, Climate & People
SAVE THE DATES — OF&G National Organic Conference at Tim May’s Kingsclere Estate in Hampshire – 1-2 July 2024
Oxford Real Farming Conference – Boot camp for agroecologists
ORC’s Head of Research Julia Cooper blogs on the recent Oxford Real Farming Conference.
LiveSeeding meets up in Poland
Isabel Mackintosh and Charlotte Bickler blog reflect on the first year of LiveSeeding and the second annual meeting in Poznań, Poland
OF&G’s National Organic Conference (NOC)
SAVE THE DATE — OF&G National Organic Conference at Green Acres Farm in Shropshire – 4 JULY 2023
Overcoming barriers to crop diversification uptake in Europe: A mini review
Review shows that addressing barriers to crop diversification by farmers requires a simultaneous and coordinated approach.
LIVESEEDING – upscaling organic seed and plant breeding in Europe
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.
Yorkshire grain changers unite!
Community event to share the work of the Yorkshire Grain Alliance from field to fork. Come and find out how you can get involved!
Farmers urged to capitalise on organic’s potential
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.
40 years of ORC: Pioneering research in #40rganic farming
LIVESEED project comes to an end after 52 months
