Agricology Blog

Come along to ‘The Study’ at Groundswell, where a varied and stimulating range of talks combining science, education and farming await...

Lindsay Whistance from the Organic Research Centre blogs about a collaborative project aimed at enhancing our understanding of the effects of shelterbelts.

Janie Caldbeck and ORC colleagues report back from the EURAF 2024 conference in Brno in the Czech Republic; abuzz with researchers from all over Europe presenting research outputs, along with some interesting talks from farmers...

ORC's Christian Gossel writes about the Farm Woodland Forum Annual Meeting - a place to meet UK agroforestry experts, hear groundbreaking research, and visit established sites.

After a couple of days let up from the seemingly never-ending rain, we visited Treflach farm on the Welsh / Shropshire border on 8th March 2024, for a Pasture for Life (PfL) field day about bale grazing and overwintering strategies.

"Up until now, few studies have evaluated the effect of agroforestry on bird diversity in farmland systems. This was the gap we aimed to fill with our study, which was part of the AGROMIX project..."

Phil Sumption picks out some of the ORFC 2024 highlights that shine a light on farmers and growers transitioning to more sustainable and resilient farming systems.

Oper8 is a three year EU horizon project bringing together farmers, researchers and academics to share alternative weed control solutions.

Phil Sumption blogs on an online conference in Germany focusing on new approaches for organic plant health care.

The aim was to hold a practical event demonstrating techniques to restore soil health and sharing knowledge and experience between local farmers and farm managers working at a range of scales in the catchment.

Three of civilisation’s great current obsessions; Artificial Intelligence (AI), carbon, and biodiversity loss are a focus of one part of the EU-funded REFOREST project that the agroforestry ORC team are currently working on.

On Saturday 9th of September we were lucky enough to attend the Carbon Calling conference in Cumbria.