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.
OGA webinar focusing on how to create your own peat-free growing media for plant raising.
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.
Agricology has drawn together practical resources and case studies to help you navigate ways in which to integrate trees into farming 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.
The Agricology Podcast offers practical insights into sustainable farming, featuring conversations with farmers, researchers, and advisors. Explore topics like soil health, regenerative agriculture, and livestock management through diverse perspectives.
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.
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.
The Organic Grower Podcast is an OGA initiative which aims to be practical in focus, getting straight into the nitty-gritty of people’s growing practices and business operations.
This Organic Research Centre webinar features two farmers talking about their experiences of living mulches in arable and horticulture systems.
A practical guide for farmers and growers wanting to get ahead of weeds when establishing pasture, arable and horticultural crops.
DiverIMPACTS case studies across Europe highlight why crop diversification strategies have been successful and what challenges needed to be overcome to achieve success.
The final report for Innovative Farmers field lab trials which aimed to determine the impacts of living mulches on cash crop yields and weed composition.
Final report for a project based on the premise that ancient or heritage wheats may be more suitable for organic and low-input production and better adapted to marginal environments than 'modern' high-yielding varieties.
A DiverIMPACTS practice abstract exploring the practicalities of applying the technique of biofumigation to help with pest and weed control.
Footage of a discussion held at Groundswell 2022, organised by Agricology, about the impacts of reduced nitrogen use and ways in which farmers are moving away from high input systems.
























