Agricology Blog

On 12 February I attended the annual BASE-UK conference in Newcastle. The day was filled with a range of inspiring and informative talks that covered topics including living mulches, on-farm research, strip till in horticulture and building on-farm resilience.

We were delighted to take part and attend (in-person and on-line) the Oxford Real Farming Conference a couple of weeks ago. Ever inspiring, we thought we’d give you some of our reflections along with some useful resource recommendations that were highlighted in the sessions that we attended…

While there is lots of information to be found if you look in the right places or speak to the right people, there is a need to pool it together and make it more accessible. This is what this book by Andy Dibben and Ben Raskin does so brilliantly...

Agricology were thrilled to take part in Northern Ireland’s first regenerative agriculture festival, which took place at the Sheddings, a beautiful venue that forms part of the Glenarm Estate in County Antrim...

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...

"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.

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.

Wakelyns' David Wolfe invites you to visit the farms in the UK and Ireland celebrating their agroforestry planting over the course of the open weekend.

The Organic Research Centre (ORC) is taking part in the Big Give Green Match Fund 2023 to raise £20,000 in just 1 week! These funds will go towards ORC’s ‘The Importance of Hedgerows’ appeal.

Do you have hedgerows, treelines, scattered trees, or scrub on your farm? We want to learn from farmers about the benefits and challenges of managing these ‘trees outside woods’ and have compiled a short online survey to capture your views.

Steven Jacobs reflects on the importance of building seed breeding programmes that offer more genetic diversity and greater grower control than those currently dominating the plant breeding industry in a blog inspired by a recent seed legislation workshop with The Gaia Foundation.