Tag: Agroforestry

Shimpling Park Farm visit, Suffolk

Shimpling Park Farm is mixed with 650 hectares of arable land and 1,000 New Zealand Romney breeding ewes on Hanslope series chalky boulder clay. They farm an additional 980 hectares under farm management contracts and all the farms are managed organically. They grow…
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The wonders of woodchip

Join Ben Raskin for this webinar to discover how to source, manage and efficiently use woodchip to improve your growing on small-scale farms. About this event Woodchip and mulches are underused tools in small-scale farming…
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ORC Bulletin 135 on its way!

And Bulletin 122 available for free download

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Integrating trees

This Your Future Farming Webinar session will look at how you can integrate trees into your farming system including on farm woodland and hedgerow management and agroforestry. We'll also be looking at how to leverage…
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Agroforestry Policy Brief

How can agroforestry contribute towards biodiversity conservation? The Policy Brief, written by Colin Tosh, is based on evidence presented in, and feedback to the online workshop held 20/10/2021. The key findings were: Agroforestry increases farmland…
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6th European Agroforestry Conference, EURAF2022

The 6th European Agroforestry Conference, EURAF2022, which will be held in Nuoro, Italy on May 16-20, 2022. The agroforestry in Europe is one the strategic instruments to map out sustainable trails towards the green transition.…
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ORC highlights from the Oxford Real Farming Conference

Beyond the Farmgate: Exploring Supply Chain Needs for Diverse Agroecological Systems https://youtu.be/YPrsgw3sSoU Oxford Real Farming Conference 2022 discussion with Katie Bliss, Julie Brown, Josiah Meldrum, James Woodward, George Young. Katie Bliss talks on DiverIMPACTS 'Enabling…
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Assessing the multidimensional elements of sustainability in European agroforestry systems

New paper published from the SustainFARM project team. A real team effort with Laurence Smith, Samantha Mullender, Sally Westaway and Jo Smith contributing authors from ORC. Smith LG, Westaway S, Mullender S,  Ghaley BH, Xu…
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40 years of ORC: Pioneering research in #40rganic farming

To round off our 40th anniversary year we have published an ebook celebrating our pioneer research in organic farming. This brings together all the Factsheets and Research Digests that we have put together over the…
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ORC at the Northern Real Farming Conference

https://youtu.be/2Lp8-zGh5vI How can agroforestry contribute towards climate change mitigation? Discussion hosted by the Organic Research Centre https://youtu.be/S9EOe0lD3ZY Workshop hosted by the Soil Association, featuring ORC's Dominic Amos See Full NFRC2021 Playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC0vTtYvEz3cDwihkTjAn8LJp1hFrbGRL
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