Living Mulches Take Centre Stage at the Annual BASE-UK Conference
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.
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January 22, 2025
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…
January 15, 2025
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...
May 3, 2023
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.
April 17, 2023
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.
March 1, 2023
RSPB and FarmWildlife's Richard Winspear writes about 6 key areas of farm management that focus on restoring nature to make farming more profitable, productive & resilient to the big food production challenges we face.
October 28, 2022
Christine Watson asks what we can do to produce more grain legumes in the UK, and why there is a difference in yield between those grown on-farm and the potential yield of those crops grown under ideal conditions...
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."
September 10, 2021
ORC joins the Countryside Charity in seizing the initiative and campaigning for the government to increase UK hedgerows by 40% in line with recent recommendations made by the Climate Change Committee (CCC) 2018 report - 'Land Use: reducing emissions and preparing for climate change.'
August 25, 2021
John Crocker shares his experience of allowing his bees to lead a natural life
June 1, 2021
As we move towards new land management schemes that will pay farmers for delivering public goods, it is a good time to make whole-farm changes that will lead to pesticides not being relied upon in the way they often are currently.
January 18, 2021
It is great that the pandemic has highlighted for people the importance of their food, which some perhaps previously took for granted. It has meant a massive increase in sales for us at the Seed Co-operative - the UK's community owned organic seed company - both to gardeners and to commercial growers who are experiencing greater demand.
January 8, 2021
In 1992 I started my career as a newly fledged post-doc working on the Integrated Farming Systems project and so have been intrigued to see the rising interest in regenerative agriculture. But what is it, and is it any different to integrated farming that has been promoted by organisations such as LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming) since its establishment 1991?