Events

Farm walkThe Soil Association continues to provide dedicated training events for farmers and growers across the UK, as well as providing technical support to other organisations and alerting Soil Association members about relevant non-Soil Association events.

Through our training events and wider services we aim to inspire and support new entrants to enter organic agriculture, to provide practical work-based training through our Organic Apprenticeship Scheme, as well as ongoing professional development for more established organic practicioners.

Our events focus on encouraging 'best practice' across all farming and growing sectors, disseminating current research, marketing support and market information, as well as creating new trading links and opportunities for all organic businesses.

When planning our programme we always include a broad range of expert speakers and the majority of our courses include a visit to a farm or site that displays 'best practice' in its field.

Royal Highland Show 2013

20 June 2013

Avenue Q, Royal Highland Show, Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, Edinburgh, EH28 8NB
Please note: we are still on Avenue Q but are now closer to the RHET Children’s Discovery Centre

Join Soil Association Scotland at the Royal Highland Show As farmers, foodies and families gear up for one of the flagship events of the Scottish summer, the Soil Association’s programme for this yea...

Farm Walk: Oakley Grange Farm - Leicestershire

20 June 2013

Richard & Inger Mee,Oakley Grange Farm,Shepshed Road,Hathern, Leicestershire, LE12 5LL 

Farm Background: We are a mixed organic farm of approximately 660 acres , organic since 2001. Our main enterprises are beef, sheep, pigs and arable. We have been farming under an environmental scheme...

Seminars with Iain Tolhurst: Machinery and Tools for Growers

24 June 2013

Walled Garden Shed, Hardwick Estate, Whitchurch-on-Thames, RG8 7RD. Reading

Machinery and Tools for Growers. An in-depth look at tools and equipment needs for growers and large scale gardeners on organic holdings. Sensible purchase and use of the right equipment can improve ...

Organic Awareness Days at Yeo Valley

26 June 2013

Yeo Valley, Wills Barn Education Centre, Rhodyate, Blagdon

Our one-day organic induction on Yeo Valley’s organic farm is designed to provide an engaging, informative and enjoyable introduction to organic. The event is relevant and helpful to anyone involved ...

National Organic Cereals 2013

02 July 2013

Mark and Liz Lea’s Green Acres Farm near Shifnal, Shropshire

National Organic Cereals is the UK’s largest one-day event dedicated to organic farming. It draws an audience made up of existing organic producers, those with an interest in finding out more about t...

National Organic Cereals 2013

02 July 2013

Mark and Liz Lea’s Green Acres Farm near Shifnal, Shropshire

National Organic Cereals is the UK’s largest one-day event dedicated to organic farming. It draws an audience made up of existing organic producers, those with an interest in finding out more about t...

New futures in farmland ownership

02 July 2013

2 July, 10.00pm - 5.00pm Hamilton House, Bristol

The Soil Association and Biodynamic Land Trust are working with the Community Land Advisory Service to host an event on ‘New futures in farmland ownership’.

The day will look at farmland ownership, how we can make it stack up economically and how communities in France have taken real ownership of their land and food supply through the work of Terre de liens.
This event is part of an EU wide project on access to land for sustainable farming and will include participants from across Europe with stories to share about sustainable management of agricultural ...

Flock Science Seminar

05 July 2013

Oxpens Farm, Stowell Park Estate,  Northleach, Cheltenham GL54 3QE.

Following last year’s Flock Science Seminar, Oxpens Farm, Stowell Park Estate have kindly agreed to host a follow on event for us on Friday the 5th July 2013. The day will be quite comprehensive and ...

Seed Festival 2013 - Hawkwood, Stroud

06 July 2013

Hawkwood College, Painswick Old Road, Stroud. GL6 7QW

Musicians, Poets, Artists, Inspiring Eco Speakers, Movers and Shakers and YOU! Seed Festival inspires a more intimate and personal connection with our living world and our place within it. Create • D...

Farm Walk: Wakelyns Farm - Suffolk

17 July 2013

 Professor Martin S Wolfe, Wakelyns, Metfield Lane,Fressingfield,Suffolk, IP21 5SD

Farm Background: 23 ha of arable and agroforestry. The farm is entirely experimental, the main feature being a range of different agroforestry alley-cropping systems. There is one organic rotation in...
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Low carbon farming event (Kent) - 'Moving towards low carbon farming'

The Low Carbon Farming project events moved to Kent during the sunny week in late May with a sucessful day at Commonwork Farm, Bore Place. The morning session was held in the farm's 'low carbon' conf...

Low carbon farming event - Practical measures to reduce farm emissions

The 2012 programme of low carbon farming events took off with a one day event held in Sydling, near Dorchester. A well attended day, packed with interesting talks and a great farm tour of Sydling Bro...

bTB Badger vaccination meeting (Wales)

To help our Welsh farmers make informed decisions about all the options available to them to reduce the risks of bTB on their farms a meeting was held at Gelli Aur College Farm in Carmarthenshire whe...

Weed Workshops - N.E + S.W Completed

Following listening to producers needs and identifying weed control in grassland systems is near the top of the list we hosted two Weed Workshops this October. One in the South West at Rob Halliday’s...

Low carbon farming event - Moving towards low carbon farming. Woodland Valley Farm, Cornwall

The second of our planned events took place at Woodland Valley Farm, near Ladock in Cornwall last Tuesday with a morning session of expert speakers followed by a delicious lunch and farm walk.
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