05 August 2011
An afternoon seminar session will be held in Yatesbury, Wiltshire on Friday 23 September, looking into low carbon farming practices in relation to arable production. Expert speakers will talk about the importance of soil management to reduce nitrous... |
29 July 2011
Pete Douglas one of our Soil Association Inspectors sent the below photo to us of a farm he recently inspected. |
18 July 2011
The website pages for the new Low Carbon Farming project are now live. The pages contain a number of information sheets about climate change and low carbon farming as well as details about the project and our upcoming activities and events. The webs... |
15 July 2011
Grochar is a new, Soil Association approved product that helps boost plant growth and soil health while reducing your carbon footprint. The product contains biochar, a special type of charcoal made specifically as a soil improver. |
15 July 2011
On a sunny summer afternoon over 30 farmers and growers met for an afternoon farm walk at Pollybell Organic Farm, an event kindly sponsored by Norton Organic Grain Ltd. |
06 July 2011
Over thirty farmers and growers joined us for an excellent organic milling wheat event at FWP Matthews, kindly sponsored by Robin Appel. The morning involved two technical sessions on soil and crops, followed by a tour around the mill, offering dele... |
24 June 2011
The new edition of the Organic Farm Management Handbook is now available, published by the Organic Research Centre at Elm Farm near Newbury. |
17 June 2011
The Producer Support team headed East for our top fruit day at Peter Hall’s farm near Marden in Kent. Brining with us our usual rain cloud, much to the delight of Peter, as they hadn’t received a drop of rain since the Easter weekend! The format of ... |
13 June 2011
The Low Carbon Farming project is working to establish a benchmarking facility to aid farmers and growers in monitoring and reducing on-farm emissions. |
13 June 2011
The Organic Trade Association has clarified how a new US policy memo which allows organic textiles to be sold in the USA in a similar way to organic food, is also in addition to existing FTC requirements. |