Formative Pruning Fruit Trees and Fruit Growing in Market Gardens
Tom Nancarrow gives a practical introduction to formative pruning and care of apple trees at the 2024 Organic Growers Gathering.
LEARN MORETake a walk through highlights from Agricology's first decade in an interactive timeline with featured content.
Weeds are an important component of biodiversity, providing resources for beneficial insects and food webs, but can also be a significant burden to crop yield. This pdf details findings from the James Hutton Institute Centre for Sustainable Cropping long-term experiment relating to weed management.
Oper8 video featuring farmer Alex Fraser and Charlotte Bickler from the Organic Research Centre discussing their collaborative work on choosing competitive cultivars for weed management in organic and low-input systems.
Soil Association guide to transitioning to chemical-free weed management.
This guide from NIAB, WWF and Fenland Soil is designed to help farmers identify actions that can be taken to better manage cropping systems on drained lowland peat soils.
Agricology has drawn together practical resources and case studies to help you navigate ways in which to integrate trees into farming systems.
This guide from the University of Reading and Forest Research provides useful information on 33 species of trees and shrubs that could be planted in UK agroforestry systems.
In this video Matt England talks through his journey of trialling living mulches with the key learnings, observations and reflections that have come from it.
OGA webinar with Dr Charles ‘Merf’ Merfield on the 'Big 4' in weed management: minimising weed seed rain, (proper) false seed beds, flame weeding, and row hoes.
This Agricology technical guide is designed to support farmers in making informed decisions about adopting living mulches in arable systems.
This resource consists of the audio recording and presentations from a session at the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2025 which aimed to address the stigma around the use of tillage in organic and agroecological crop production.
Mark Lea talks with Matt Smee at Oxford Real Farming Conference about the learnings from 5 years of trialling living mulches in an organic arable system.
Cultivating Wisdom’ is a collection of agroecological research summaries from practitioners in the Landworkers’ Alliance’s ‘Experts in Your Field’ project.
A report on the use of ‘row hoes’ — what used to be called inter-row hoes / cultivators.
Footage of a Groundswell 2024 panel discussion organised by Agricology and The Allerton Project, with the panel and audience members sharing their experiences of growing cover crops.
How do you tackle the biggest problem facing arable farmers in the UK? This is video footage of a Groundswell 2024 session run by Agricology, borne out of a collaboration with ADAS and the Oper8 project.
A report on mini-ridgers - a highly effective weeding tool for controlling intrarow weeds through burial.
A revised new edition of this publication explaining the on-farm research carried out at the innovative and pioneering Wakelyns.
This Organic Research Centre webinar features two farmers talking about their experiences of living mulches in arable and horticulture systems.
Four short films focusing on promoting sustainable agricultural practices being used on the Waddesdon Estate and beyond.
Footage of agroforestry pioneer Stephen Briggs imparting some of his learnings from a now well-established commercial agroforestry system.
Session from 2024 Oxford Real Farming Conference featuring grower Iain Tolhurst (Tolly) and "biological nutrition" farmer Tim Parton discussing soil health at scale.
GWCT briefing from Allerton Project research on measures that can
reduce negative impacts on water quality and aquatic ecology,
and potentially reducing flood risk.
DiverIMPACTS case studies across Europe highlight why crop diversification strategies have been successful and what challenges needed to be overcome to achieve success.
























