Tag: Organic Research Centre

The ORC are very pleased to announce that as of the 27th January 2022 the third round of DOF funding is open, with up to £200,000 of interest-free loans available for small businesses.

The Organic Research Centre is looking to appoint a Project Manager to oversee management of Agricology, a web-based platform supporting farmers and growers in learning about practical sustainable farming regardless of labels. The job holder will play a key role in overseeing the day-to-day operations of the project.

The Organic Research Centre has two vacancies available at their site near Newbury

The Organic Research Centre (ORC) – the UK’s leading research charity in this field, has been awarded two new research projects by Defra to gather robust evidence on organic farming.

On a crisp November morning, within the inner sanctum of The Organic Research Centre at Elm Farm, I find myself amongst a mob of multi-disciplinary minds. Farmers, scientists and foresters. We are all here for a common reason. Our task: to get the wheels turning on the WOOFS project.

The Organic Research Centre, a leading independent research charity, is launching the new Dean Organic Fund at the Oxford Real Farming Conference this week. The fund offers interest-free loans, typically ranging from £5,000 to £25,000, to small-scale organic/ecological growers and food businesses.

The Organic Research Centre (ORC) is seeking to appoint a share farmer for their 80 ha Elm Farm in Berkshire in or after November 2018. It is envisaged that the joint venture will seek to fulfil the aims of ORC, to support research and innovation and demonstrate inspirational, best organic practice.

Do you have short herbal/diverse leys in your arable rotation that you put livestock on for extra income? Or livestock that spend time on another farmers’ herbal/diverse ley? We are offering the opportunity for a small number of farms to be ‘case studies’ in our exciting new research project and explore the true impact these practices have on their farm and farm business.