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Interest among UK farmers in planting trees on their land has skyrocketed recently. Only ten years ago a survey indicated that very few farmers know...

Due to popular demand, the #30minworms survey is back! Following feedback, this spring farmland survey is trialling a new way to support your earthworm identification...

Background For organic pig and poultry farmers, living up to the ideal of feeding 100% regional and organic feed is difficult and especially for protein...

Reducing tillage and chemical inputs can be beneficial for soil and the environment, so could a permanent clover understorey acting as a 'living mulch', moving...

It is not an easy time with the combination of the COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit. It is great that the pandemic has highlighted for people...

In 1992 I started my career as a newly fledged post-doc working on the Integrated Farming Systems project and so have been intrigued to see...

A healthy floodplain meadow in June is a spectacular sight, teeming with life in every hue. So, it may seem odd that this is also...

Variety is the spice of life When we think of a balanced diet, we think of eating a range of foods to give us different...

Agricology and the University of Reading have been awarded a DEFRA Environmental Land Management scheme test to research in partnership, how effective videos and podcasts...

If you have never gotten down on your hands and knees to sift through a cow or sheep poo, then grab a 'stool.' Each pat...

Is he or she recognisable as a farmer? Checked shirt, muddy boots, body warmer, lots of talk about the weather and how to get hold...

Have you ever wondered what the true benefit of hedgerows, tree lines or flower rich margins are on your crop yield? As part of the...

As part of #OrganicSeptember campaign, Daylesford Organic have been running a ‘Future of Food’ series, featuring interviews with thought leaders in the food, ecology and...

Can you make land both a productive farm and also good for bumblebees? This is a question that has been occupying the minds of the...

Ploughing has received bad press in some organic farming circles due to the higher fuel requirements and the fact that it buries soil organisms and...

There is huge potential for farmers to be incentivised and rewarded for protecting and sequestering carbon in their soils. Government initiatives and carbon offsetting schemes...

Planting trees is great isn’t it? Good for the farm, good for the planet, good for our livestock for our crops for our soil. It’s...

Agricology has been awarded a DEFRA ELM Test in partnership with the University of Reading to research how effective videos and podcasts are as tools...

Why do we eat lamb, throw away wool and wear plastic? Why are food and fibre systems not generally considered within the same systems and...

Jez Taylor, head of the diverse market garden at Daylesford Organics talks to us about managing the greenfly on the roses they supply to the...