You don't get vibes without sandals --- you should know that
ORFC 2017
- Thread starter Tim W
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You don't get vibes without sandals --- you should know that
dontknowanything
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- Cambridge
more like 'imbibes'
- Location
- Hampshire
Thought that it was the best so far, and I have gone to all of them except for the first.
Your presentation was excellent, still laughing about you telling the old man (Oliver) that you will wait 'till he dies before you go organic! (Although you won't!)
Having said that, the sessions were quite diverse. I went with my daughter and we stuck with agricultural sessions, but there were a lot of 'land worker' type sessions, and pretty political ones.
I hoped to see Colin Tudge before I left, but he must have been busy somewhere, but he should be very proud of the conference, which seems to have swamped the 'other' one!
Today many of the papers looked at health, nutrient density foods, importance of healthy animal fats over vegetable oils, and concluded that pasture fed animals had such a positive advantage, improving the soils and producing more nutrient density foods. It would be great if the government post Brexit subsidised this type of farming to improve the health of the nation.
I would like to say encourage rather than subsidise ---- via legislation, taxation and possibly financial reward
Yes, there was a good vibe. It's a real pleasure going to a farming event where the average age of participants is much younger than me and half of them are women. You can't help but think that the future is bright. Unfortunately I lost my voice and most of my hearing which made chatting to people a bit tricky, ended up grinning at them in a slightly deranged manner and waving my arms about.
The BBC Farming Today seemed to give the ORFC much more coverage than the yawn fest up the road
The BBC Farming Today seemed to give the ORFC much more coverage than the yawn fest up the road
dontknowanything
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- Cambridge
You should have come and said hi, always good to meet people from here.
tom
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- Lancs/Cheshire
.. maybe in retrospect wearing a distinctive TFF badge might have been a good idea.
As Barleycorn says another great conference and I think Nessie deserves a lot of credit for that. I was less convinced by Colin's opening remarks about the distinction between what 'we' at OFRC believe compared to 'them' down the road. Maybe that was true when there was just a handful meeting in the library but now both events are more diverse the distinctions far less clear.
Dan Powell
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- Shropshire
I thought it was great and would go again. A lot of idealism and politics, but mainly positive and necessary. It made me think hard about what I'm doing and why I do it.
Did anyone else catch the Farming and Metaphysics session at the end? If not, hopefully it will be on the website at some point. Well worth a listen if you enjoy thinking about The Big Questions.
Did anyone else catch the Farming and Metaphysics session at the end? If not, hopefully it will be on the website at some point. Well worth a listen if you enjoy thinking about The Big Questions.
Dan Powell
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- Location
- Shropshire
I caught the soap box pitch about the community wheat field idea. Sounds great and would make a great TV series... following its progress through the year.
dontknowanything
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- Location
- Cambridge
Dan Powell
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- Shropshire
Some people will always want to be outsiders even when their ideas go mainstream. See also music fans saying their band has "sold out" because everyone else now likes them. It's human nature but pretty perverse.
tom
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- Lancs/Cheshire
There are a couple of short sound clips on coming together for the common good (and young farmers in particular getting it together) in a report by Ben Eagle at https://thinkingcountry.com/2017/01/06/my-visit-to-the-oxford-real-farming-conference-2017/
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That's happening on our place this year, I'll post more about it when we get up and running...I missed the pitch, forgot that they were going to do it
Farmersdaughter
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- Gloucestershire
My first time at ORFC,and really enjoyed it. Came home inspired, only down side was often wanted to go to more than one talk at same time. I am told most talks were recorded so waiting to listen on line now. The video of OFC are online and the soil saviour session I watched is very good.
- Location
- Hampshire
I hope that you are right. I would like to see several sessions that I had to miss but didn't see a lot of recording equiptment this year. Hopefully due to the advances in recording they were caught with go pro type things, will be interested to watch the website.
- Location
- Oxfordshire
Went to the first one years ago ;a quite different experience !( I remember creeping into a small room and encountering a small group of people who looked as if they had got lost trying to find the summer solstice at Stonehenge.I kept quiet with my head down in case they realised I was a large scale conventional arable farmer with a large self propelled sprayer! )
For various reasons have not got to it again until this year so was a pleasant surprise to see how large and diverse it has become.
Came away full of enthusiasm that there are plenty of people out there who realise that the wheels have come off our post war agricultural model and that we need to work for change from the bottom up as well as the top down.
For various reasons have not got to it again until this year so was a pleasant surprise to see how large and diverse it has become.
Came away full of enthusiasm that there are plenty of people out there who realise that the wheels have come off our post war agricultural model and that we need to work for change from the bottom up as well as the top down.