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ORFC 2026 Audience. Credit: Hugh Warwick

Reflections on ORFC 2026 

Read a selection of Alice, Janie and Phil's key session highlights and wider learnings from the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2026.

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Pig with Stick
August 27, 2025
Ben Raskin makes the case for part-time farming, showing how this often-overlooked model can unlock a range of individual and social benefits.
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Photo: Philipp Leingärtner / tobetold.film
June 30, 2025
Phil Sumption reports from the Organic Field Days - the biennial meeting point for the German organic farming sector.
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Pemboa Flower Farm in full bloom
June 19, 2025
In this guest blog post, River from Pemboa Flowers invites us to rethink the role of cut flowers as a vital part of any biodiverse, low-impact, and financially resilient farming system.
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Participants in the Growing to Seed Project. Photo Catherine Howell
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....
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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...
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ORFC 2024: Livestock Carrying Capacity. Photo: Hugh Warwick
February 1, 2024
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.
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System Cameleon - alternative weeding solutions (photo credit Janie Caldbeck)
December 15, 2023
Oper8 is a three year EU horizon project bringing together farmers, researchers and academics to share alternative weed control solutions.
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Organic apple cultivation: promoting beneficial insects through flowering strips. Photo: Uni Hohenheim / Jutta Kienzle
December 13, 2023
Phil Sumption blogs on an online conference in Germany focusing on new approaches for organic plant health care.
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Mid field flowering margin with deer. Courtesy of Julia Gold. All Rights Reserved
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."
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Brassica seed
December 3, 2021
Real Seeds' Kate McEvoy shines a light on the fragility of the seed system and trys to encourage people to think about seed sovereignty as a fundamental part of food sovereignty...
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FarmEDagroforestrymap
May 28, 2021
Edd Colbert blogs about developing an ‘Agroforestry Living Textbook’ at FarmED in the Cotswolds to showcase inspiring agroforestry systems for arable, livestock and horticultural operations.
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ML Mulch rye Nov 21 (3)
January 26, 2021
Dominic Amos asks if establishing a perennial soil cover could offer a practical solution to reducing inputs and having more sustainable cropping systems.
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