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Participants in a field at a ReForest workshop

#Silvopasture Codesign Workshop, Pendle Pastures🌳🐑

Join ReForest & @organicrescent.bsky.social
at this family farm in the Pennines to explore practical opportunities for integrating trees with sheep & poultry with Lindsay Whistance.

📆18/3/26

Book now: agricology.co.uk/event/silvo-...

Tree and crop alley at Wakelyns

🌳Agroforestry Open Weekend 2026

Wakelyns - one of the UK’s pioneering examples of organic #agroforestry - will be opening their doors to visitors 16/5 - 17/5 as part of the global Agroforestry Open Weekend. Lots of activities on offer 🍰🐦🥬!

🎟️See our event listing for details: ow.ly/6uja50YsJCN

This ReForest Project Living Lab meeting at Pendle Pastures near Bolton 18th March is open to all!
🌳 🐑 🌳 🐔 🌳Farm walk with Tom Collinge exploring opportunities for integrating trees with sheep & poultry to provide shade, shelter & browse. With lunch! #agroforestry

https://ow.ly/fs9o50YsQ5F

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#Competition #Agroecology #KnowledgeExchange #SustainableFarming

cows lying in bracken

New Resource: Non-Chemical Bracken Management 🐄

This webinar from Innovative Farmers @thesoilassociation.bsky.social brought together farmers, researchers and advisors to launch a new learning network investigating managing bracken without chemicals. 🙅🧪

➡️ ow.ly/HgcK50YrK5r

📸Katharine Pinfold

Kate on a blue tractor in the market garden

🔦Event Spotlight: How to Start a Market Garden 👩‍🌾

Thinking about setting up a veg growing business? Learn about the challenges & rewards of commercial market gardening at this @ogagrowers.bsky.social webinar on 25/3 with Kate Collyns & @philsumption.bsky.social 🥬

Tickets here: ow.ly/CYiV50YrfqE

They have a four way variety bend for milling wheat - this is delivering significantly less disease compared to single variety crops. Arable costings are £372 per ha compared to averages of £850 per ha seen elsewhere. #ResilientfarmRoadshow

Angus Gowthorpe presenting

Angus Gowthorpe 430 ac mixed farm in the Vale of York. #AHDB #ResilientFarmRoadshow

Since 2014 his approach has been farming with nature. The soil comes first - direct drilling, extensive use of cover crops, integrating livestock and low inputs are at the core of this.

Having more organic matter in your soil means the soil can hold more nutrients and water holding capacity - it takes tike to build up soil heath but its pays back in dividends.

Healthy soils for resilience - as a start point knowing what you've got and knowing where you're heading is key.

If you want to know the potential of your soil, look in the hedgerows and compare it with whats in the middle of the field. Its the same soil, just managed differently.

Can you operate a farm system that thrives with minimal inputs?

Diversity is the key to resilience, it takes more management but it spreads the risk and makes you stronger.

Stephen Briggs standing by a screen during his presentation

Stephen Briggs at The AHDB #ResilientFarmRoadshow started by exploring resilience with a wide lens - 'what are the shocks to our farm systems that we're looking to recover from?' Economic, environmental or political? Can you function if there is a supply chain shock?

Banners for Agricology and the Resilient Farm Roadshow

Agricology booklets and materials

People mingling before the start of hte event

Dundee to Cambridgeshire to Suffolk to Shropshire and now Yorkshire. Today sees the final installment of The AHDB #ResilientFarmRoadshow

Todays speakers are Stephen Briggs, Angus Gowthorpe and Richard Bramley

A flowering hedgerow

🌳Hedgerow Management: 'No Cut' Period 🪚🙅‍♂️

Under Rural Payments Agency rules, you must not cut or trim #hedgerows from 1/3-31/8.

🐝These rules protect hedgerows on farms which provide vital ecosystem services for wildlife, water and soil.

Check if your hedgerow meets the criteria: ow.ly/bU2e50YnSPc

Front cover of The Spring Organic Grower showing Jonathan Smith loading seaweed with a fork onto a trailer to illustrate the feature 'making the most of seaweed'

Image shows the new 'Rotations for Field Vegetables Technical Guide' from Agricology

Our Spring #OrganicGrower is approved to print. OGA members can expect theirs soon! Also in the mailing will be this great new Rotations for Field Vegetables Technical Guide from @agricology.bsky.social - another benefit for being an OGA member organicgrowersalliance.co.uk/join-oga/

Rethinking oilseed rape - testing for cabbage stem flea beetle

📹New Video Reveals the Secrets Behind the Research🔬

Duncan Coston and the trial team from @adasgroup.bsky.social present an exclusive behind-the-scenes insight on the field trials exploring #CompanionCropping in winter oilseed rape.🌾

Watch the full video🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=wdoB...

#IPM #Organic

Rotations in Horticulture: Design Fundamentals. Keep weeds under control. Include legumes to fix nitrogen. Minimise opportunities for pests and disease. Balance fertility building and exploitative cropping. Take a whole-farm systems approach.

🔄Rotations: Design Fundamentals ✏️

Learn everything you need to know about designing and implementing effective field veg #CropRotations with our new Tech Guide, video & Hub, available now.

ow.ly/cWYO50YmiOZ

#Agroecology #Horticulture #SustainableFarming
@philsumption.bsky.social

Cover crop

📖New Resource - Cover Crops Guide🌱

The UK’s first accessible, independent, farmer-led and scientifically supported farmers’ guide on #CoverCropping from AHDB is now available via Agricology's resources page.

➡️ agricology.co.uk/resource/cov...

Founded by @angusgowthorpe.bsky.social

collage of bread, arable crops fields and a tractor harvesting wheat

It's #RealBreadWeek 🍞🥖

🌱We believe the secret to delicious, nutrient-dense baking starts in the soil - a sustainable approach to grain production is the key to supporting healthier people & planet.

Find out more & get involved: ow.ly/WyTI50Ykh31

@sustainweb.org @realbreadcampaign.bsky.social

2017 - Agricology: Celebrating ten years

🎉 #10YearsOfAgricology

Popular content from 2017/18 inc.

✏️ Our Defra Consultation Response
🌱 Guide to #HerbalLeys by Cotswold Seeds
🪱Invertebrate Conservation @wildcru.bsky.social

🎂 Find all the links & explore more highlights on our interactive timeline agricology.co.uk/resource/10-...

5 speakers sitting on stage in front of a screen with the BASE UK logo

🌱Growing without Government Support? 💸

✏️Alice Farmery reports back from the 2026 BASE UK Conference - which asked the critical question: Can farmers flourish in a subsidy-free future?

Read the full blog here ➡️ ow.ly/9QI250Yi0Zb

📸 Annie Winn

#RegenAg #SFI #BASEUK #FarmFunding

💻#RotationsForFieldVegetables Hub

Last month we launched our new curated learning space bringing together the very best:

🧑‍🌾Farmer case studies
📹Videos & webinars
🧰Digital tools
📖Research & science

🔗 Visit the Rotations Hub now: agricology.co.uk/resource/rot...

@philsumption.bsky.social

Photo of flowering artichoke with text reading: IPM in Action: From Research to Practice in Horticultural Crops. Online event Mar 12 from 1pm to 2:30pm GMT

🔦Event Spotlight - #IPM in Action: From Research to Practice in Horticulture

Don't miss this exciting webinar from @thesoilassociation.bsky.social @soilassocscot.bsky.social
& @ogagrowers.bsky.social on building a balanced IPM system that delivers REAL results.

📆https://shorturl.at/HAk4C

Building a Resilient Farm Business with Tom McVeigh Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

📹New Video: Building a Resilient Farm Business 🚜

Farmer and Nuffield Farming scholar Tom McVeigh discusses:

🌳Creating a '3-storey' field
🌾No-till yield impact
💸Moving away from subsidy reliance

Full recording ➡️ ow.ly/rcqA50Ygv1t

#ResilientFarmRoadshow #RegenAg #Agroecology

Diagram showing a five year vegetable crop rotation cycle in loam soil.

5-Year Loam Field Rotation at Abbey Home Farm🌱➡️ 🥦

👨‍🌾 Andy Dibben explains:

"We use no farmyard manure or compost... I build up fertility with a long fertility-building ley... and then throughout the rotation, maintain fertility."

Learn more: ow.ly/wJuK50Y8Fg0

#CropRotation #Horticulture #RegenAg

💬"When you risk our natural ecosystems, you risk everything that creates a stable civilisation." ⛰️

@vickihird.bsky.social from @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social reacts to the latest DEFRA Natural Security Assessment on Global #Biodiversity Loss.

Read the full blog ➡️ ow.ly/YKvv50YclXZ

Thanks so much for this insightful and thought-provoking blog Vicki. Such an important topic for UK farmers and the country as a whole.

Corn bunting sitting on a wire and singing or calling

Agroforestry systems have gone in over 51ha of the farm. Our crop is nature and in particular the Corn Bunting, they are a real love of ours on the farm and we’re seeing more and more of them. @greenacresfarm.bsky.social
#ResilientFarmRoadshow

Mark speaking in front of slide showing poppies in one half of field

Heritage wheats

In our early years of growing YQ wheat it gave us great resilience - we realised it was modern wheats that weren't working for us. We then started growing older and older wheats and engaging with a whole new supply chain of artisan bakers. @greenacresfarm.bsky.social
#ResilientFarmRoadshow