Bringing the real food and farming movement together. #realfarming #agroecology #foodsovereignty ORFC 2026, 8-9 Jan 🌱🌍 Oxford, UK + Livestream 🌱🌍
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Call to Action!
"We call on all our member organizations and allies to unite and mobilize to end violence against women, girls, and diversities in rural and urban areas, amid raging wars and genocide." #25Nov25
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🌍This #GlobalFertilizerDay, let’s face the facts:
Chemical fertilizers are #fossilfuels in disguise.
🛢Most synthetic nitrogen fertilizers are made from fossil gas.
☠️Linked to cancer, birth defects & water pollution.
💰Controlled by a handful of corporations. (1/3)
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🌾Oxford Real Farming Conference 2026 tickets now on sale! Join thousands who share your vision for a fairer food and farming system at @ORFC!
The policy hub run by @UKSustain & @SoilAssociation is worth the price of admission alone!
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🌾 MEET THE SPEAKERS: Emergent Generation Summer Gathering 2025! 🌾
This year we’re digging deep into a vital issue: How can we reconnect town & country, farm & fork? How can we build understanding across rural & urban perspectives?
Event details 👇
bit.ly/EGBooking2025
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@Beyond_GM has sent a pre-action letter to Defra Secretary of State Steve Reed, putting the government on notice that we intend to pursue a judicial review of the Genetic Technology Regulations 2025. Read more and DONATE to our @CrowdJusticeUK funder NOW. crowdjustice.com/case/stop-h…
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You’ll meet fantastic and inspiring people and go away with ideas and energy.
23-24 July, Subsidised tickets available orfc.org.uk/orfc-in-the-fiel…
Photos by Gail Caddy
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The event includes practical workshops on mob grazing, hay meadow restoration, cow-calf dairying, permaculture, and more.
You'll also hear how this 4th generation farm is using conservation grazing as part of its nature friendly farming.
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For anyone, farmer or just curious, interested in pastoralism in the UK and where it needs to go, you couldn’t get a much better event to go to than this one from @ORFC .
2 days of hands-on learning at Hill Top Farm, a PfL certified farm in the stunning Yorkshire Dales...1/3
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🚨 Wales is on the brink of losing a vital part of its local food system.
A coalition of farming & conservation groups — including @PastureForLife @RSPBCymru @NFFNUK @RBSTrarebreeds & @SusFoodTrust — is calling for urgent action to save small abattoirs. Only 5 remain in Wales.🧵
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🪺@ORFC will be at Hill Top Farm in July – get your ticket now: orfc.org.uk
Hill Top Farm is a member of the @SusFoodTrust’s Beacon Farms Network and provides a living classroom where students can explore sustainable farming in action sustainablefoodtrust.org/our…
Oxford Real Farming Conference is coming to the Yorkshire Dales! 🐏
Join us In the Field on 23-24 July for an incredible two days of livestock and biodiversity-focused practical workshops at Hill Top Farm.
Spaces are limited, so book now:
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Head to ORFC in the Field - on us!
We're offering two of our members a FREE two-day ticket to ORFC in the Field at Neil Heseltine's Hill Top Farm in Malham on 23-24th July.
For all the details, including how to apply by 1st July, see yas.co.uk/future-farmers-orf…
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Two and a half years ago @overthefarmgate and I met at @ORFC /@oxfordfarming . Today I am incredibly happy that we will be getting married!
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Set your alarms! ⏰ The Agricology podcast is back! Season two of the podcast kicks off this Thursday🎙️
With our new host Wallace Currie, we will be exploring the question - ‘to till or not to till.’
The first two episodes will be published this Thursday
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Dean Organic Fund 💰, Living Mulches guide 🍀, Silvopasture 🌳 and more. Our April E-Bulletin is out! mailchi.mp/organicresearchce…
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🌱At the ORFC @LandworkersUK & @via_campesina gathered peasants, landworkers, youth, trade unionists & activists to discuss what being a social movement means & why it’s key for agroecology & food sovereignty.
🎥Watch here: orfc.org.uk/orfc-archives/
Sessions by LVC & LWA👇
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Is a fossil fuel free food system possible?
What are the challenges, opportunities & trade-offs farmers and eaters face in this critical transition?
Listen now to this fantastic #FuelToFork bonus episode recorded LIVE at #ORFC25 @ORFC.
🎧 fueltofork.com/episode9
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Sustain Annual Conference is here!
2025 is a critical year, with the development of a new food strategy, farming roadmap + more on land use to children’s health.
Join the national momentum to help change the UK food system for good.
Tickets ▶️ buff.ly/40GlHcH
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If you eat meat, are you willing to eat the whole animal?
🥦 In #FoodTakes Ep 2, @Rob_Percival_ (@SoilAssociation) makes the case for all-or-nothing meat eating--or just eat plant-based! 🌱
Share your thoughts ⬇️
🎥 Filmed at @ORFC, Food Takes is produced by TABLE's @rebelwrit
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Is a fossil fuel free food system possible?
🎙️ Our panel event with @IPESfood & @futureoffoodorg at @ORFC discussed just this & we recorded it live for the podcast!
Listen to this special live episode of #FueltoFork, available now:
tabledebates.org/fueltofork/…