We were delighted to welcome Tim Parton to speak on Soil Health at Scale at #ORFC24

Sadly, Tim has since had a terrible on-farm accident. If you have learnt from Tim's contributions to farming healthy soils, please consider donating to his recovery gofundme.com/f/the-tim-part…

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AFSA Officially Launches “𝙎𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙄𝙨 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙚” Campaign To Uphold Farmer Managed Seed Systems (FMSS)

“Seed Is Life” campaign, a significant initiative aimed at promoting Farmer Managed Seed Systems ( #FMSS ) and countering the…

We are thrilled and honoured to have exceeded our fund raising target in this year's Big Give campaign. The support you have shown us in donations and sharing our campaign has been incredible and we are very grateful to you all. 🙏

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Excited to be featured on this weeks episode of the brilliant Farmerama Radio have a listen to Dot & Hamish from our working group chat to Katie back at ORFC open.spotify.com/episode/5Zw7uY…

Just an hour left to get your ideas in! 💡

🚨Tune in to our session this afternoon at 2.30 to hear from Greg Hands and Mark Spencer on UK food policy.

Watch it live here:
parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/49…

Interested in an agroecological transition for food and farming system? ORFC is accepting submissions for next year's conference. Deadline Thursday, 25 April at 12pm BST (midday). Find out more and apply
orfc.org.uk

🌿 Join us in championing sustainable farming 🌱

We're fundraising to develop online tools empowering farmers moving towards sustainable pasture-based systems.

The campaign is live to April 25th - donate via
Big Give to have your donation doubled! ⏰👇

donate.biggive.org/campaign/a0569…

🧑‍🌾 Support Pasture For Life in their mission to empower farmers transitioning to sustainable, pasture-based systems. Donations are doubled thanks to Big Give #GreenMatchFund - donate by 25th April to help supercharge nature's recovery: bit.ly/3vPFACK Real Farming Trust 🌱

Farmers and crofters in Scotland: are you doing something really interesting? Do you have a great story to tell? The #ORFC25 submission deadline has been extended to 25/4/24 - a great platform to exchange knowledge, inspiration and stories Landworkers' Alliance Nature Friendly Farming Network Scottish Crofting Federation

📢 DEADLINE EXTENDED 📢

Send us your ideas + proposals for #ORFC25 by Thurs, 25 April at 12pm BST 🌾

As always, ORFC is a platform to exchange knowledge, inspiration + stories 🧑‍🌾

Spread the word + invite new voices to be part of #ORFC25 in Jan 🌱

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PETITION: #DoubleTheAGBudget !

The future of our food system depends on both nature *and* farmers. It shouldn't have to be a choice between the two.

Sign our petition to call on the UK Gov to take the future of farming seriously & double the budget
➡️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6596…

To mark International Day of Peasant Struggles #17April we celebrate La Via Campesina (Official EN) & European Coordination Via Campesina and encourage our Members to get involved in international organising for food sovereignty ✊🌍

If we globalise the struggle, we globalise hope!

Read more: landworkersalliance.org.uk/international-…

🌎🧑🏽‍🌾🌾Call to Action - #17April International Day of Peasant's Struggles. Build solidarity! Enough with the genocide, evictions and violence!
📣 viacampesina.org/en/call-to-act…
#️⃣ #17April #PeasantStruggles #FoodSovereigntyNow #PeasantRightsNow European Coordination Via Campesina AbL_eV MVIWATA Kenyan Peasants League

Take part in our Great Bean Trial!

Seeking experienced growers to trial resilient dwarf French beans across UK & Ireland. Support, seeds, and growers' fee provided.

For more info and to sign up: seedsovereignty.info/the-great-bean…

🚨Deadline 2 May

Reflecting on a brilliant workshop held at ORFC earlier this year, our Council member Lucy Aphramor has written about the urgent need to reframe nutrition, beyond the healthy/unhealthy binary, and toward relational, holistic, collective care.

Read here: foodethicscouncil.org/opinion/refram…

Don't be shy! Apply! Not too late to nominate! We want our Young Organic farmer/Grower of the Year Award 🏆🥇 #YOFGY to shine a light on young people who are too modest to shout about the wonderful things they are doing. ow.ly/Oklw50RbZqE

We’re really proud that ORFC are official partners and supporters of our latest report entitled “Sowing the Seeds of Stability: A case for Basic Income for Farmers, Farmworkers and Food Producers in the UK”

Co-founder of ORFC Ruth speaks to sky news about how we need to transition to an Argo-ecological farming system that supports our farmers and pays them what they deserve!

#nofarmersnofood #foodsecurity #agroecological

Fantastic to see agroecology being discussed on Sky News. The current dominant model is broken at every stage, and those working to fix it need practical support.