Reflections on Groundswell 2025
Alice Farmery reflects on her first experience of Groundswell, sharing some of her highlights and key learnings...
LEARN MOREJuly 10, 2025
Alice Farmery reflects on her first experience of Groundswell, sharing some of her highlights and key learnings...
April 16, 2025
On March 18th 2025, the ReForest North of England Living Lab held a coppicing workshop at Sleastonhow Farm in Cumbria, which included a farm walk and an opportunity to see and discuss wood pasture, hedgerow and woodland management.
April 3, 2025
As the facilitator of the 'Experts in Your Field' project, I've witnessed first-hand how small-scale farmers are reclaiming their rightful place at the helm of agroecological research, with findings that could transform how we approach farming's biggest challenges....
September 17, 2024
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...
June 14, 2024
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...
November 8, 2023
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.
July 21, 2023
Groundswell 2023 did not disappoint – the buzz of stands, workshops, discussions, and of course general socialising did indeed create a huge ground swell of people hungry for information and inspiration. Janie Caldbeck reflects on some of the takeaway messages...
April 18, 2023
ORC's Christian Gossel describes the new version of the farm sustainability Public Goods Tool and invites farmers to try it out and share with others...
March 6, 2023
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.
February 14, 2023
Our friends at ADAS have asked us to help spread the word about an upcoming conference and a callout to submit research abstracts. RAMIRAN is a research and expertise network that was set up more than 25 years ago to improve nutrient utilisation and minimise the environmental impact of livestock manure and other organic material used in agricultural systems.
August 1, 2022
"We set out to create some easy to follow but detailed resources that would help farmers, growers and other land managers to increase their use of nature-based Integrated Pest Management (IPM) - no matter where on this journey they currently are. This blog highlights what’s in these resources, and where people can go to find them."
January 31, 2022
When under the inspection of an environmental regulator, water companies and farmers can often point to each other accusingly. One side can paint a picture of a farmer haphazardly firing tonnes of fertiliser onto their prized crop, the other of a frowning businessman ordering the release of vast tonnes of sewage overflow into the precious water-course, at the expense of all life in it.