The Kindling Trust are organising a course is aimed specifically at people interested in becoming commercial growers, with the aim of supporting them on to the start of the farming ladder (they also have an Incubator...
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adminVideo Re-Cap of the Quality of Organic Food Q&A Session
Back in November, Professor Carlo Leifert hosted a Question and Answer session about the quality of organic food study as part of NEFG’s Celebration of Potatoes. The session began with a thorough explanation of the...
IARC Reviews Cancer Risk of Five Common Organophosphate Pesticides
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) met in March of this year to assess the carcinogenicity of tetrachlorvinphos, parathion, malation, diazinon and glyphosate and released a summary of their...
Perspectives on the GM Debate and Herbicide-Use Implications for Antibiotic Resistance
Last week, the World Health Organization’s IARC declared that glyphosate ‘probably causes cancer’, drawing strong responses from pro and anti GM groups alike. As the debate over GM crops and pesticide use persists in...
Scottish Farming Innovation Network events this summer
Soil Association Scotland are organising a number of different events on farms (including rush control near Carlisle on 28th May) and inviting suggestions for host farmers and researchers interested in participating in...
National Organic Combinable Crops, July 7th, Suffolk
Some of the biggest challenges and latest developments in organic food and farming are set to come under the spotlight at the largest on-farm gathering for the UK organic sector. Dr Julia Cooper will be discussing soil...
Sustainable Intensification Research
Newcastle University and Nafferton Farm are part of the new Sustainable Intensification Platform research programme. The website and the newsletter for the programme outlines the partners involved, the research farms...
Controlling Rushes without Chemicals Workshop, Wednesday 14th October 2015, Cumbria
Wednesday 14th October, 11am-3pm , starting at The Croft, Houghton, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA30LD courtesy of Susan Aglionby Workshop looking at controlling rushes without chemicals, and will assess the impacts of liming...
Growing Spelt and Rye in the Northeast: Nafferton to host a November Information Session
The Nafferton Ecological Farming Group will host an information session on the 21st November 2015 to discuss preliminary results from the first year of spelt and rye trials at Nafferton Farm and the future of the...
Results from ImproveP Potato Trials
The International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems (ICROFS) has shared some of the results from the ImproveP project. ImproveP considers strategies for addressing phosphorus deficiency in organic farming...
