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.

Farm Walk: Woodlands Farm - Lincolnshire

11 June 2013

Andrew Dennis, Woodlands Farm, Kirton House, Kirton, Near Boston, Lincolnshire, PE20 1JD

Farm Background: 2800 acres of Beef, sheep,arable, poultry and horticulture. Mixed Organic and Biodynamic farm with Box Scheme, field scale vegetables and local breeds. Woodlands offers school visits...

Farm Walk:Tamarisk Farm,Dorset

12 June 2013

Adam and Ellen Simon,Tamarisk Farm,West Bexington, Dorchester, Dorset,DT2 9DF

Farm Background: Tamarisk Farm is 600 acres of mixed organic farming on the clay slope running down to the sea behind the chesil beach on the Jurassic coast of West Dorset. Most of the land is low fe...

Farm Walk: Tolhurst Organics - Oxfordshire

18 June 2013

Iain Tolhurst,Tolhurst Organics, West Lodge Hardwick, Whitchurch on Thames, Pangbourne, Reading, RG8 7RA

Farm Backgroun: 8ha of horticulture. Stockfree organic,Soil Association symbol holder since 1976. Pioneer use of green manures in vegetable rotations with many innovative techniques utilised on the h...

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...

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 ...

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...

Farm Walk: Caerhys Farm, Pembrokeshire

18 July 2013

Rupert Dunn,Caerhys Farm,Berea,St Davids,Pembrokeshire,SA62 6DX 

Farm Background: Caerhys Farm is on the picturesque coastline of North Pembrokeshire. We produce pasture fed Welsh Black beef and pork. We also grow vegetables for our CSA scheme, Caerhys Organic Com...

Farm Walk: Northdown Orchard - Hampshire

24 July 2013

Mike Fisher Northdown Orchard South LItchfield, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG25 3BP

Farm Background:5ha of horticulture. Box scheme since 1994, also supply field and protected crops to Riverford. Field crops and 1000m2 protected cropping, intercropping with green manures and green m...

Farm Walk: Strickley Farm, Cumbria

30 July 2013

James Robinson,WH & KM Robinson,Strickley,Old Hutton, Kendal,LA8 0LU

Strickley is organic dairy farm comprising of 240 acres which has been in the Robinson family for 5 generations. We have a pedigree herd of 100 Dairy Shorthorns plus followers. We have always taken a...

Farm Walk: Penyrallt Home Farm, Carmarthenshire

08 August 2013

David and Jinsy Robinson, Penyrallt Home Farm, Pentrecwrt, Llandysul, Carmarthenshire, SA44 5DW

Farm Background: Penyrallt Home Farm is a traditional family-run mixed farm of approximately 140 acres. We have a dairy herd of British Friesians & Ayrshires, Hereford Cross Friesian Beef animals and...
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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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