Strengthening the resilience of upland livestock farming through agroforestry
Gowbarrow Hall Farm secures ADOPT funding for upland agroforestry innovation, with ORC as research partner
Weather Wise Farming: for livestock health and welfare
Nature Friendly Farming Network and Woodland Trust partnered webinar with ORC’s Lindsay Whistance
Strawberry Growing Workshop
Organic strawberry growing Masterclass with Iain Tolhurst MBE
Agroforestry and its benefits for livestock health and welfare
NFFN webinar led by ORC’s Lindsay Whistance looks at the many benefits trees can bring to livestock systems
Rootstock 2026
ORC’s Lindsay Whistance will be speaking at this one-day conference for South West farmers on resilient, profitable, regenerative farming
Silvopasture Co-design at Agroforestry Show with Brackenhill Farm
Working with Tom Newbury from Brackenhill Farm near Tebay we hosted the second Living Lab Co-design workshop at the Agroforestry Show in September.
ReForest Training Hub at the Agroforestry Show
Come and join us in the ReForest Training Hub at Agroforestry Show 2025 – your gateway to practical solutions and cutting-edge insights.
Animals and trees in the farming landscape
This Farm Carbon Toolkit case study looks at Dr Lindsay Whistance’s research, which examines some of the ways trees positively contribute to livestock farming systems.
Silvopasture for building climate resilience in livestock systems
Report from UK-Brazil-Africa Scoping Project (December 2024-February 2025) on silvopasture is published
Agroforestry at Groundswell
ORC joins forces with Woodland Trust, the Soil Association and Alba Trees to offer support in the Agroforestry Tent at Groundswell
ORC attends the Organic World Congress in Taiwan
Cultivating Organic Solutions for True Sustainability: Lindsay Whistance and Rowan Dumper-Pollard reflect on their experiences in Taiwan
UK-Brazil-Africa Silvopasture Network Online Workshop
Share experiences and ideas that can be put together into the beginnings of an action and research agenda.
Feeding willow to lambs: Results from Innovative Farmers field lab
Join Innovative Farmers for the latest feeding willow to livestock network webinar.
Resilient dairy farms through landscape design – Groundswell follow-up webinar
The Nature Friendly Farming Network and Woodland Trust are hosting a follow-up webinar to the very popular Groundswell session looking at how dairy farms are planning for extreme weather events.
Trees and Livestock: a balancing act
The challenges and opportunities of balancing livestock and trees in the North of England.
REFOREST at Carbon Calling
ORC will be at Carbon Calling 2-4 August in Cumbria running a workshop ‘Trees and Livestock: a balancing act’
Silvopasture in Colombia
At the end of January Will Simonson visited the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Colombia to attend a workshop on silvopasture design.
REFOREST Living Lab at Gowbarrow Hall Farm
Report from the REFOREST North of England Agroforestry Living Lab meet up at the beautiful Gowbarrow Hall Farm in the Lake District, hosted by Sam and Claire Beaumont.
International Agroforestry Conference
The Irish Agroforestry Forum is bringing together a diversity of expert voices, both national and international, to discuss and highlight the multi-faceted benefits that trees can bring to farms and the wider environment.
Conversation beneath the trees
Conversation Beneath The Trees is a podcast bringing together scientists, farmers and innovators from all around Ireland to share their ideas and experiences of farming with trees.
Silvopasture benefits for livestock
This Farm Wilder webinar looked at the many benefits trees can bring to livestock systems, with ORC’s Lindsay Whistance
Silvopasture: Benefits For Livestock
Free webinar on Dec 14 at 7pm organised by Farm Wilder, with funding from Devon County Council, will be led by ORC’s Lindsay Whistance “who has been pivotal in generating the recent upsurge in interest around silvopasture.”
ORC highlights from the Oxford Real Farming Conference
