Tag: Soil health

Join this Organic Research Centre and Organic Growers Alliance (OGA) webinar to learn about composting techniques to boost soil and crop health.

The outcomes of ORC’s project Early indicators to monitor changes in soil health: evidence to update guidance for UK farmers, have been published on the AHDB website.

The Feed the Soil team answer composting questions in the Soil Medic Tent at Groundswell

Climate Farm Demo webinar presenting results from long-term trials of biochar on an organic farm in Switzerland.

ORC are once more partners in the Agroforestry Tent. Book your agroforestry design session now!

Julia Cooper blogs on our recent workshop discussion on soil health indicators.
How do we decide which indicators best reflect soil health?

Our newly published literature review in the journal Next Research provides an overview of different composting systems

We are looking for farmers and advisors to take part in online workshops to feedback for final report on soil health indicators

Join the Soil Association at Mindrum Farm for a guided farm walk focusing on improving soils as part of whole farm system change.

New ORC project launched which will evaluate ten different indicators to create a framework for farmers to better manage their soil health

Join Agricology and Oper8 at the Fring Estate for field-based insights into living mulches, intercropping, and resilient soils 

Isi Mackintosh blogs on ORC’s past work on compost and composting, and how the Feed the Soil project brings it up to date

Tickets now available for the Regenerative Agriculture Show and Conference in Hertfordshire

Insights from the Perennial Green Manures project: an innovative approach to fertilising cropland

Dr Julia Cooper writes to the new Defra Secretary and Farming Minister, urging them to read ‘Six Inches of Soil’

Farm Carbon Toolkit’s conference on biodiverse farming takes the dung beetle as a a powerful proxy for soil health

Julia Cooper features on this AWE International podcast – and addresses the myths and mistrust around organic produce.

Come and join ORC at the Regenerative Agriculture Show and Conference in Hertfordshire

This spring REFOREST researchers have been assessing soil health in agroforestry systems using a range of practical measures.

ORC is taking part in the Big Give Green Match Fund campaign again this year. This time to raise £100,000 in just one week for our Feed the Soil project.

Come and join ORC at the Regenerative Agriculture Show and Conference in Hertfordshire

Join The Organic Research Centre for the Living Mulches Network Day at Mark Lea’s Green Acres Farm in Shropshire on Wednesday 3 May

Would you like to be involved in an on-farm field trial exploring living mulches: direct drilling cash crops into (semi)-permanent established stands of clover?

Loving soil wasn’t just this year’s Groundswell slogan, it was the topic, in depth and from the ground up, in practice and in theory, in detail, from a global and from a bird’s eye perspective. Marianne Landzettel blogs for ORC.