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Tickets are selling fast for ORFC 2022, with only a very small handful left for the in-person event in Oxford. If you want to join us in person, book this week. The full event programme will be announced at the end of November. Book ORFC 2022 tickets An online ticket to ORFC 2022 will give...

ORFC Global 2021 Workshop Nature is a key stakeholder in any farm business, but how do you account for the assets it provides? Correct and supportive management of nature can actually improve the business bottom line. After significant research and analysis of over 80 farm businesses, Chris...

ORFC Global 2021 Session Governments are beginning to recognise the urgent need to transform our food systems. This has been made even more pressing by the current health and economic crisis caused by the COVID pandemic. Currently, there are good but rather scattered examples of governments...

Thinking about fungi makes the world look different. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that support and sustain nearly all living systems. Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They can change our minds...

Opening plenary with speakers and farmers from around the world. Featuring: Colin Tudge, Sam Lee, Anna Lappe, Nnimmo Bassey, Morgan Ody, Erin Matariki Carr, Te Kahurerema, Nury Martinez, Tshering Ongmu Bhutia, Alice Cunningham and Taiko Drummers

Some thoughts of Colin's that stirred a few Twitter comments http://www.campaignforrealfarming.org/2014/02/is-agroecology-natural-is-natural-good/

Latest article by Colin and Graham, tracking down some inspiring examples, including more on Wakelyns agroforestry http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/Blogs/2255122/the_many_faces_of_real_farming.html Do you know of any other models that work?

Colin has written another article to explain what the Oxford Real Farming Conference is about, and, as he focussed mainly on the economics of making real farming happen, he also summarised some of the sessions in the conference that he attended...

A piece by Colin Tudge and Graham Harvey at http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2247895/low_input_farming_diversity_is_the_key.html

My Twitter feed is a precious source of information for me and today it delivered - directly from the US - this guide to agroforestry for profitable farms http://nac.unl.edu/documents/morepublications/profitable_farms.pdf. It is all rather new to me, but in the last few months I have read and...

Found an article this morning about grazing and profitability with some numbers: is the message getting through? It also refers to the PFLA and since there was interest in this topic I thought I would post it here http://www.talkinggrass.co.uk/grass-tide-turning/. This year ORFC we had a few...