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Recording from the 2025 Fields Good regenerative agriculture festival. Organic veg grower John McCormick talks with small-scale market gardener Chris Dobbs on the keys to success...

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Courgettes and sweetcorn: Photo: Phil Sumption
Recording from the 2025 Fields Good regenerative agriculture festival. Organic veg grower John McCormick talks with small-scale market gardener Chris Dobbs on the keys to success...
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Maize. Photo: Phil Sumption
The RB209 Nutrient Management Guide is a key resource for efficient nutrient management in UK farming, focusing on optimising crop yields while minimising environmental impact.
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Still taken from Clive Bright's Fields Good presentation 'Less Bare, More there: Filling the Gaps in Soil Health'
Recording of a talk from the 2025 Fields Good regenerative agriculture festival. Organic Sligo farmer Clive Bright outlines how he has worked closely with nature to drive his business, referencing soil degradation and capping, using mob grazing, agroforestry, and the value of having a grazing plan.
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Take a walk through highlights from Agricology's first decade in an interactive timeline with featured content.
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Hazelnuts at Home Farm, FarmEco Community Care Farm. Photo: Alice Farmery
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.
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Group of people hand weeding a vegetable crop in the field. Courtesy of Jane Sweetman
Cultivating Wisdom’ is a collection of agroecological research summaries from practitioners in the Landworkers’ Alliance’s ‘Experts in Your Field’ project.
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Taken by Tim Scrivener. Stephen Briggs, Whitehall Farm, Cambs
Footage of agroforestry pioneer Stephen Briggs imparting some of his learnings from a now well-established commercial agroforestry system.
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Session from 2024 Oxford Real Farming Conference featuring grower Iain Tolhurst (Tolly) and "biological nutrition" farmer Tim Parton discussing soil health at scale.
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Allerton radish cover crop with earthworm
GWCT briefing from Allerton Project research on measures that can reduce negative impacts on water quality and aquatic ecology, and potentially reducing flood risk.
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Sustaining our soils: Photo Phil Sumption
Recording of an Organic Growers Alliance's Organic Matters 22 conference session exploring stockfree organic standards and carbon sequestration, mobile green manures, Organic-PLUS trials on fertility-building inputs, grower experiences, and featuring discussions on research priorities.
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FiBL booklet offering a view on soil fertility from different angles to stimulate new thinking about a sustainable relationship to the soil.
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Buckwheat cover crop
Abstract created as part of the DiverIMPACTS project outlining some of the benefits that can be attained from establishing summer cover crops on sandy soils and giving useful practical recommendations.
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David Brass and his free range hens in their woodland range. Photo credit: Phil Formby, Woodland Trust Media Library. All Rights Reserved
Can planting trees on your hen range boost biodiversity as well as benefit your business?
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Maize
Abstract created as part of the DiverIMPACTS project based on a long-term Dutch field trial, outlining practical recommendations, advantages, and challenges of combining winter cover crops and early maize varieties.
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Pea triticale intercrop and Combine: Photo Mark Lea
The DIVERSify project Guide for Farmers and Agronomists - summarising key results from the intercropping research carried out in an easily digestible way, dividing information into 3 keys areas.
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Buds in agroforestry row
This film, created by the Soil Association through the FABulous Farmers project, explores some of the many benefits that can be experienced from different agroforestry systems.
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Direct drilled field
Interesting results from a 5-year reduced cultivation trial that took place at the Salle Park Estate, Norfolk, to assess the impact of contrasting tillage regimes on the biological, chemical and physical condition of soils.
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Cover crop
An update from research undertaken as part of the Demonstration Test Catchments research platform established to investigate the extent by which on-farm mitigation measures can cost-effectively reduce the impact of diffuse water pollution on river ecology whilst maintaining food production capacity.
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Earthworm on soil surface
A Soil Biology and Soil Health Partnership case study expaining the scorecard that has been developed to help farmers measure and manage soil health and detailing some test results that reveal interesting insights into different management systems and their impact.
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Testing the efffects of SOM
A Soil Biology and Soil Health Partnership case study explaining the scorecard that has been developed to help farmers measure and manage soil health, and detailing results from a long-term experimental site at Harper Adams University, which is investigating the impact of adding organic material at recommended rates on soil and crop quality in a predominantly arable rotation.
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Good irrigation management
This FiBL guide will help farmers, growers and agricultural consultants improve irrigation practices and manage water sustainably.
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Herbal leys
This is part 1 and 2 of a collaborative 2-part series of virtual events exploring establishment, management, soil health, grazing and ensiling in relation to herbal leys.
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Elm Farm, Berkshire UK silvopasture woodchip plots August 2012
Research briefing outlines the planning, establishment and management of different agroforestry approaches as experienced at Elm Farm, an organic livestock farm in Berkshire.
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Mandy with nine star broccoli seed crop. Credits: Mandy Barber (All Rights Reserved)
This article, aimed at smaller-scale farmers and market gardeners, describes some perennial leafy greens, roots and alliums, including guidelines for growing and different ways in which they can be used.
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