Tag: Soil health

As part of the European project LEGUMINOSE, Innovative Farmers are calling for farmers to join their intercropping trials.

Agricology is delighted to hear the news that Iain Tolhurst (Tolly) has been recognised in today’s King’s Birthday Honours list with the award of Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to organic horticulture.

Agricology are looking forward to hosting a Q & A tent at Groundswell 18. This will be a place where audience and speakers can get together for an informal chat – where farmers, researchers, and specialists can come together to share knowledge and expertise in a relaxed setting face to face. 

THE importance of soils and water will be highlighted to farmers, researchers and policymakers at what promises to be a thought-provoking conference next month.

How can businesses working in a shared rotation collaborate to assess and manage the health of their soils? Come along to hear about this GREATsoils field lab where three businesses, Jepco, Worth Farms, and Loveden Estates, are working on a joint strategy to improve soil health in the long term.

Join SoilBioLab & Innovation for Agriculture for a one-day interactive workshop on soil biology including a chance to look at soil life under the microscope.

Theresa May’s Government has responded to a ground-breaking, all-party parliamentary report on soil health, acknowledging that the current approach to soil management must change if the UK is to have any success in improving soil quality and mitigating climate change. Three specific areas the Soil Association has campaigned for were addressed by the Government in […]

“I want to see if this trial can lead to a more sustainable growing system that will put something back into the soil whilst at the same time producing a good quality product.”  Joe Rolfe of Taylorgrown Ltd, who is taking part in the AHDB funded GREATsoils project, talks about their trial which combines soil health […]