Great opportunity for young growers interested in #organicseed production and/or breeding

Text reads - IPM in Action: New Resource. Photo of a ladybird on a plant stem.

Are you a veg grower interested in...

🥬Natural #pestmanagement strategies?
🪱Building resilience that starts the soil?
🥕Planning disease-proof crop rotations?

Check out this @ogagrowers.bsky.social @thesoilassociation.bsky.social webinar summary & recording now.

➡️ ow.ly/mrj250YKm6Q

Green manures in flower at Real Seeds

Well, they are finally here! The Welsh Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS) Universal Actions were launched on 1st Jan & the Optional and Collaborative actions are now available. This is good news for Welsh growers. Tony Little explains.

organicgrowersalliance.co.uk/welsh-govt-l...

THIS THURSDAY!

Sustain hosts a conversation on the barriers and opportunities for producers to supply children with healthy and climate friendly local produce in schools. Join us: www.sustainweb.org/events/mar26...

How to start a market garden - with Kate Collyns YouTube video by Organic Growers Alliance

If you missed the webinar 'How to Start a Market Garden' with Kate Collyns and @philsumption.bsky.social the other night you can watch it here #organicfarming youtu.be/FzYJqokIAIM?...

At #BIOFACH2026, youth and innovation were at the heart of the conversation. 🌱
Our colleague Helene Schmutzler caught up with inspiring young organic entrepreneurs. Watch the video - and stay tuned for more inspiring conversations in the coming weeks!
#OEYN #OrganicYouth

The Organic Grower magazine and the Rotations for Field Vegetables Technical Guide held in the hand

Column inside The Organic Grower about the Agricology Rotations for Field Vegetables Technical Guide

Our new Rotations for Field Vegetables Technical Guide mailed out with the Spring #OrganicGrower magazine to 550 @ogagrowers.bsky.social members

OGA AGM enjoys Yorkshire hospitality - March 2026 - Organic Growers Alliance For the 2026 OGA-AGM we enjoyed warm hospitality at the Quaker Meeting House, Leeds. They provided all organic teas, coffees, milk and biscuits. They also gave us full access to their kitchens and the...

News from our recent AGM in Leeds - Seed Conversations, farm visits and more! #OrganicGrower #Organicfarming #organicseed organicgrowersalliance.co.uk/oga-agm-enjo...

Kate on a blue tractor in the market garden

🔦Event Spotlight: How to Start a Market Garden 👩‍🌾

Thinking about setting up a veg growing business? Learn about the challenges & rewards of commercial market gardening at this @ogagrowers.bsky.social webinar on 25/3 with Kate Collyns & @philsumption.bsky.social 🥬

Tickets here: ow.ly/CYiV50YrfqE

Emerging puntarelle garnished with slug eggs

It's our AGM on Friday in Leeds. If you can't make it you are welcome to join online from 1.45pm GMT. It may be possible to join in the panel discussion on 'Seeds; Sourcing, saving and sharing' that will follow the conclusion of the business. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/organic-gr...

Join OGA for this webinar with Kate Collyns on the challenges and rewards of starting a sustainable vegetable growing business. Wednesday, Mar 25 7-8.30 GMT www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oga-webina...

Front cover of The Spring Organic Grower showing Jonathan Smith loading seaweed with a fork onto a trailer to illustrate the feature 'making the most of seaweed'

Image shows the new 'Rotations for Field Vegetables Technical Guide' from Agricology

Our Spring #OrganicGrower is approved to print. OGA members can expect theirs soon! Also in the mailing will be this great new Rotations for Field Vegetables Technical Guide from @agricology.bsky.social - another benefit for being an OGA member organicgrowersalliance.co.uk/join-oga/

Inside of a polytunnel filled with winter salads - text February News and OGA logo

Our February news is out! “My salad days, When I was green in judgment: cold in blood“ - Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s Antony & Cleopatra. #Organicfarming mailchi.mp/0e3ff8f3f6f4...

Vegetable plants in trays

New #OrganicGrower Podcast OGPod 35: Plant Sale Q&A. James responds to questions about running a plant sale as an add-on to a veg growing enterprise, based on his experience of developing a profitable plant sale enterprise at Cotswold Market Garden/Conygree Farm. www.buzzsprout.com/2316172/epis...

Photo of flowering artichoke with text reading: IPM in Action: From Research to Practice in Horticultural Crops. Online event Mar 12 from 1pm to 2:30pm GMT

🔦Event Spotlight - #IPM in Action: From Research to Practice in Horticulture

Don't miss this exciting webinar from @thesoilassociation.bsky.social @soilassocscot.bsky.social
& @ogagrowers.bsky.social on building a balanced IPM system that delivers REAL results.

📆https://shorturl.at/HAk4C

Photo of small copper butterfly on borage flower, with text 'OGA 2026 Funding Appeal. UK Organic Horticulture Needs you' and OGA logo

We need to raise funds to secure the development of the Organic Growers Alliance, and build greater strength across the organic movement. #OrganicFarming
We have the promise of £5,000 if our members, friends, and supporters will match it. organicgrowersalliance.co.uk/oga-fundrais...

Dan Betterton peers out from behind a cucumber plant and nasturtiums

Check out the latest #OrganicGrower podcast. In this episode, James talks to Dan Betterton of The Kitchen Garden People, based at @realfarmed.bsky.social Oxfordshire. www.buzzsprout.com/2316172/epis...

Join up now to get a hard copy of this organicgrowersalliance.co.uk/join-oga/

OGA members will receive a hard copy of this fab new guide with their next #OrganicGrower magazine.

New polling among our members shows that farmers growing non-cereal crops are seeing real benefits: healthier soils, more resilient farm businesses and more diverse income streams. But many farmers face practical barriers that make it hard to take the leap.🥕🫘

👉 www.nffn.org.uk/news/growing...

Soil health indicators 🪱 organic action plans 🥕 toolboxes 🔧and more! Our January E-Bulletin is out! #Organicfarming #soilhealth #agroforestry mailchi.mp/organicresearchcentre/e-...

🌳Join Ben Raskin, @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social's @vickihird.bsky.social, farmer Mark Lea, & Bee Happy Plants' Sarah Holdsworth for free webinar on #agroforestry for #pollinators

🐝Boost #biodiversity, improve #productivity & build #resilience

📅 24 Feb, 7pm
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/1977367740...

🌿 #OrganicAdviceNetwork Cross Visits 2026
🌾Connect, learn, and exchange with fellow agricultural advisors through 2–3 day cross-border cross visits focused on organic farming
📍 Topics, locations & tentative dates already available on: organicadvicenetwork.space/course/index.php

Green from the Grassroots. Our January newsletter is out! #Organicfarming #OrganicGrower #agroecology mailchi.mp/9590182b51d7...

📢New Blog! Our #ORFC26 Reflections

Alice Farmery, Janie Caldbeck & Phil Sumption from the Agricology team have joined forces to share their highlights & take-away ideas from across the conference.

Read now ➡️ https://agricology.co.uk/blog/reflections-on-orfc-2026/

📸@hedgehoghugh.bsky.social

A group of people on a farm walk looking at a field planted with Oakbank Stewardship Mix

🔦Winter Event Spotlight ❄️

See #SustainableFarming in action at these events in Feb ⬇️

🐄3/2 - Tregooden Farm Walk, Cornwall @farmcarbontoolkit.bsky.social
🐦6/2 - Oakbank Roadshow, Norfolk
🍓12/2 - Strawberry Growing Workshop, Tolhurst Organic

Details & ticket info: ow.ly/hcs150XZw2B

Are you a farmer or farm advisor with an opinion on what is a key indicator of #soilhealth is? Help us update the #AHDB Scorecard by joining an online workshop on soil health indicators. SRUC
https://tinyurl.com/yn9fkw7b

In a recent interview with The Organic Grower, our CEO Martin Lines explains the difference between organic, regenerative and nature-friendly farming. 🌱

👉 www.nffn.org.uk/news/nffn-ceo-speaks-to-...

#nffn   
📸 Mahtola Eagle-Lippiatt

Strawberry Growing Workshop One day workshop for commercial growers and gardeners, learning about propagation, site preparation, care & selling of organic strawberries.

Don't miss this! Strawberry Masterclass with Tolly! One day workshop for commercial growers and gardeners, learning about propagation, site preparation, care & selling of organic strawberries. #organicfarming #Organicgrower

10:00AM to 3:30PM, Mon 16 Feb

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Sign the petition to end peat sales! No more delays: Let's get peat out of gardens once and for all. The time for uncertainty has ended.

Petition asking the Labour Government to put a timeline on the ban of peat based composts by @peatfree.bsky.social has flown past 5,000 signatures already. Labour is damaging economic growth in the horticulture sector with uncertainty on this issue actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...