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Fungi and the Soil Food Web

Every organism in a healthy and thriving soil ecosystem is important, including bacteria, protozoa, and nematodes. We’re going to focus on plants and fungi in this webinar, because they have unique roles and partnerships that facilitate every other form of life in the soil. 

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Trialling diverse forage crops for sustainable livestock wintering

Innovative Farmers & FABulous farmers demonstration event where farmers will share their experiences of using diverse winter grazing crops

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BGS Spring Farm Walk

Join BGS, AHDB & LIC to find out about the system of buying beef calves from the dairy herd, rotationally grazing them, and finishing the cattle with minimum concentrates feeding.

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Herbal Ley Establishment & Management

A one day course on Herbal Leys Establishment and Management brought to you by the FarmED team and Cotswolds Seeds.

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Bioindicators: What can weeds teach us?

What is a weed? We generally think of it as the wrong plant in the wrong place. But what if we viewed these plants as bioindicators that can inform us about soil health or management practices? Join us for a practical workshop to learn what weeds can teach us.

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An Evening with Andy Cato from Wildfarmed

Meet local farmer and co-founder of Wildfarmed Andy Cato at FarmED on the 27th April. Andy’s talk at FarmED will chart his journey from France to the UK, the genesis of Wildfarmed and the support they offer farmers in transitioning from chemical-based agriculture towards biological systems.

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OF&G’s National Organic Conference (NOC)

OF&G’s National Organic Conference is an annual event built to service the stakeholder community in and around the organic sector.

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Getting started with Regenerative Agriculture

Join the Agricology team and a range of guest speakers for a day of talks about getting started with regenerative agriculture and how to make it work financially. Regenerative agriculture is becoming ever more popular across UK farming, however for many there are still uncertainties as to how best to get started, which techniques are […]

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ORFC in the Field: Biodynamics and Permaculture Design at Huxhams Cross Farm

Come and join leading practitioners for two days of hands-on workshops that explore how biodynamic principles and practice and permaculture design can be used at farm scale.

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Groundswell 2023

The Groundswell event provides a forum for farmers and anyone interested in food production or the environment to learn about the theory and practical applications of Conservation Agriculture or regenerative systems, including no-till, cover crops and re-introducing livestock into the arable rotation, with a view to improving soil health

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Down To Earth North

Down to Earth will focus on the basic principles of regenerative agriculture, offering an arena where the whole industry can come together and address the opportunities, facts, and science surrounding its principles and to see it in action.

At its core, regenerative agriculture looks at improving the health of soil or restoring highly degraded soil. This unique event will offer farmers the practical advice they need to start applying its principles back on their farms.

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Down To Earth South

Down to Earth will focus on the basic principles of regenerative agriculture, offering an arena where the whole industry can come together and address the opportunities, facts, and science surrounding its principles and to see it in action.

At its core, regenerative agriculture looks at improving the health of soil or restoring highly degraded soil. This unique event will offer farmers the practical advice they need to start applying its principles back on their farms.

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LEAF Open Farm Sunday 2023

LEAF Open Farm Sunday returns on Sunday 11th June, as hundreds of farms across the country will be opening their gates for farming’s annual open day. Showcasing farming’s commitment to producing nutritious food more sustainably.

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REGEN 23

Regen ’23 will take place in the Vale of Glamorgan, at Sealands Farm, St Brides Major CF32 0RR on Thursday 8 June 2023 at 10am. Richard Anthony operates a diverse, progressive arable enterprise which integrates livestock and renewable energy, with a focus on soil health, grassland and carbon capture.

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Agroforestry Open Weekend 2023

Following the success of the Anglian Agroforestry Open Weekend 2021 and 2022, please join us in 2023 to see Agroforestry in action

Friday 19 – Sunday 21 May 2023

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Farm of the Future: Net Zero in Practice

Delivered by Innovation for Agriculture (IfA), in partnership with RASE and Harper Adams University, the Farm of the Future: Net Zero in Practice event will provide a unique opportunity to gather information and ideas on how to decarbonise your farm business.

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The Agroforestry Show 2023

Interest in agroforestry is on the rise across the UK farming and forestry sectors, yet for many there is still uncertainty as to how to put this concept into practice.Amidst this uncertainty agroforestry presents a huge opportunity for innovation between those who produce food and those who work with trees. Now is the time to […]

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Regenerative Agriculture – Understanding the opportunities and challenges

It is recognised that there is a need to bring together the scientific evidence supporting the implementation of regenerative agriculture, to help evaluate the potential benefits and challenges for food production, the environment and farm profitability, across different agroclimatic zones and farming systems.

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National Conference 2023: Connecting Trees, Farmers and Foresters

This conference will examine how we can successfully integrate trees into the farmed landscape and build mutually beneficial relationships between the farming and forestry sectors at this time of transition.

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18th International Ramiran Conference

After two years delay, the International Recycling of Agricultural, Municipal and Industrial Residues in Agriculture Network (RAMIRAN) Conference is due to take place in Cambridge from the 12th to the 14th of September 2023

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Demonstrating the habitat management & conservation techniques that have increased farmland birds & biodiversity at Peppering Farm

Agricology is delighted to offer a tour of Peppering Farm – for farmers and farm advisors in the county of Sussex – to explore the three pillars of successful farmland bird conservation: Habitat, Food Source, and Predation Control.

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Friends with Benefits

Friends with benefits: identifying and attracting natural enemies

A practical workshop to learn how to ID and observe natural enemies and share experiences with encouraging them into cropping systems Interested in building natural pest resilience into your cropping system? In this workshop entomologist Barbara Smith (Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience) will provide an overview of the main groups of natural enemies, the […]

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Farming without Chemicals – The Countryside Forum

The 87th Meeting of The Countryside Forum will be held on Thursday 12th May 2022.  It was intended to hold it in person at 33 Margaret Street, London WIG 0JD by kind invitation of Savills, starting at 11.15 am.  Unfortunately that has not proved possible, so the meeting will be held online via Zoom.  The […]

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Fordhall Farm Visit

*An event organised by the Landworkers’ Alliance Fordhall Organic Farm is a 128 acre organic and pasture-fed certified farm in community-ownership based in North Shropshire. It operates a system of permanent outdoor grazing called ‘Foggage Farming’ and everything is sold direct to the public via their onsite farm shop and online shop. The farm tour […]

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