Agricology Blog

Alice Farmery reflects on the 2025 Norfolk Landscapes Conference - an event exploring how farmers, conservationists and innovators are shaping regional adaptive landscapes.

Planning your Groundwell itinerary can feel like an impossible task! We highlight some of the 2025 we think you won't want to miss.

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...

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.

"We can’t be growers championing our sustainable production and continue using peat. The issues at stake - biodiversity loss and the loss of carbon - are just too great..."

Agricology's Farm Engagement Officer Matt Smee reflects on his experience of the ORFC (2023) and its contribution to helping build a resilient, equitable and sustainable farming system...

Mark Ward states the case for farmers and water companies to work collaboratively to support one another in reaching their respective objectives and improving water quality as a result.

A joint industry and Research Council funded project looking at how to reintegrate sheep into arable systems for the improvement of soil quality is seeking help from arable farmers.

Dominic Amos asks if establishing a perennial soil cover could offer a practical solution to reducing inputs and having more sustainable cropping systems.

John Holland shares his views on the potential of regenerative agriculture to transform our food and and farming systems.

Should we plough and if so how deep? Mark Measures shares some key learnings from recent research projects and long term trials.