Watch this final clip from our NEW #LivingMulches 'How-to' video to understand different mulch management options available post-harvest in year 3. 🚜🐖🌾

Find the full video here: agricology.co.uk/resource/liv...

📹Rural Pod Media + Down to Earth Media

Spring - establishment phase infographic Action: Cereal sowing Considerations: Cereal selection, seed rate, row spacing Risks: Cereal crop may shade out the living mulch before establishment or fail to suppress it adequately

Spring - establishment phase infographic Action: undersowing the living mulch Considerations: Species selection, sowing rate, machinery timings Risks: A vigerous living mulch species chosen at this stage can outcompete the crop in year 2. Poor germination can also be an issue.

Summer - field management and harvest living mulches infographic Action: field management Risks: Non establishment of undersow, cash crop shades out undersow

Summer - field management and harvest living mulches infographic Action: harvest Considerations: yield penalty, harvesting straw, post-harvest actions Risks: living mulch enters the straw swath, increasing the green matter content. Mulch fails to establish proper ground cover

🌱 Living Mulches: What to expect in Year 1 🌱

Thinking about introducing #LivingMulches on your farm? Here's what you need to know to get started.📌This is a post you'll want to save for later!

📖 Full tech guide: ow.ly/omgZ50WC3pU
🎥 'How To' video: ow.ly/f2Fu50WC3pV

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Mark Lea

Living with #livingmulches… hard lessons, hidden rewards! 🌱

Mark Lea from Green Acres Farm shared his 5 years of insight at #ORFC in Jan. The key message? To succeed you need patience, planning, and a willingness to adapt 💯.

🎧 Listen: ow.ly/uH6I50Wyv6h
📽️ Learn more: ow.ly/A3Xw50WyuY7

🎬Take a look behind the scenes on our #LivingMulches Video shoot! 🌱📹

We filmed in April and June at the Fring Estate with presenter Matt England + a fab crew, featuring drone shots, farmer tips & everything soil-friendly farming 🌾🦋.

Full video here 👉 agricology.co.uk/resource/liv...

Have you watched our new #LivingMulches 'How To' video yet? 🌾📹

In this clip, Matt England guides us through the first stage of establishing a living mulch system, explaining how species selection is critical.

👀Full video: ow.ly/ZShv50Wr233

@organicrescent.bsky.social #RegenAg #SoilHealth

📹 🚀Just launched! Our brand new #LivingMulches ‘How-To’ video with Matt England at the Fring Estate is live! 🌿

Watch now + stay tuned for bonus clips & exclusive content over the next few weeks 👀
🎬 ow.ly/ZShv50Wr233

👏 Huge thanks to the filming team at Rural Pod Media and Down to Earth Media

A quick look behind the scenes as filming continues for our #LivingMulches video at the Fring Estate in Norfolk📽️.

Down to Earth Media have been using their drone cameras to capture the perfect shot 🌿🤩

We can't wait to share the finished product with you

📽️Today we're back at the Fring Estate in Norfolk with Matt England, RuralPod Media and Down to Earth Media, to wrap up the filming of our #LivingMulches video🌾.

The finished video will be launching SOON - stay tuned for updates (you won't want to miss this one!) 👀

#SoilHealth #RegenAg

Nice write-up from Agricology on our joint event #Organicfarming #livingmulches #agroforestry

Watch out latest webinar #5 – Cultural control solutions for weed and soil management The 5th OPER8 webinar focused on cultural controls and mulching solutions. It was a collaboration with the EU-funded GOOD project and the webinar lasted about 1 hour 30 and has been recorded. (see bel...

Watch the Oper-8 latest webinar #5 – Cultural control solutions for weed and soil management featuring Matt Smee #Livingmulches www.oper-8.eu/watch-out-la...

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Flyer advertising Field Day at Fring Estate with photos of Ian Robertson and Matt England, and a combine harvesting cereal with clover understorey plus text about the event

Flyer advertising Field Day at Fraser farms with photof Jonty Brunyee, and Alex and Hannah Fraser, and scenes from the farm, plus text about the event

Promo image for Agricology podcast series 2 - to till or not to till

Our latest Agricology Newsletter is out! It's packed with podcasts, blogs, field days and new resources. #Tillage #livingmulches #grazing #coppicing #dairying
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Missed our webinar on US clover #livingmulches trials with Lincoln Fishman Momentum AG? Are living mulches practical and scaleable? Profitable? Delivering #soilhealth benefits? youtu.be/V4vb0pHcuVI

Beyond the label: Exploring resilient & regenerative organic agriculture - The Organic Research Centre Agricology/ORC/Oper8 event at Fraser farms focusing on living mulches, agroforestry and whole farm systems with Jonty Brunyee and the Frasers

Join us on June 2nd at Fraser Farms in Yorkshire, where innovation meets tradition in #organicfarming, @agricology.bsky.social will highlight the farm’s work with #livingmulches and #agroforestry www.organicresearchcentre.com/news-events/...

Check out the new @agricology.bsky.social Living Mulches Technical Guide – out now!

☘ ️Practical step-by-step guidance on getting started with #livingmulches in arable systems
🌾Matt England’s observations and reflections from trialling living mulches in Norfolk.
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Living With Living Mulches - Agricology Mark Lea talks with Matt Smee at the Oxford Real Farming Conference about the learnings from 5 years of trialling living mulches in an organic arable system.

New resource: Listen to this chat between Matt Smee and @greenacresfarm.bsky.social who imparts valuable insights into, in his words, ‘how not to do’ #livingmulches ... #ORFC25 ORFC - Oxford Real Farming Conference agricology.co.uk/resource/liv...

Living Mulches Take Centre Stage at the Annual BASE-UK Conference - Agricology Matt Smee reports back from the 2025 BASE-UK conference, focusing on a talk given by Danish farmer and agronomist Frederik V. Larsen on his experiences of trialling living mulches.

☘️🌽"Root complementarity is a key driver for reducing competition between crop and (living) mulch." Read Matt Smee's blog on the BASE-UK Conference where Frederik Larsen from Denmark "delivered a brilliant talk on #LivingMulches" agricology.co.uk/blog/living-...

Practical experiences implementing living mulches in arable and horticultural farming systems - Agricology This Organic Research Centre webinar features two farmers talking about their experiences of living mulches in arable and horticulture systems.

The @organicrescent.bsky.social have been running the #LivingMulches project for 3 years to trial integrating white clover as a perennial cover crop into a cash crop rotation through direct drilling. Features Matt England & David Newman (Bucksum salads)
agricology.co.uk/resource/liv...

Living Mulches Final Report - Agricology The final report for Innovative Farmers field lab trials which aimed to determine the impacts of living mulches on cash crop yields and weed composition.

This Innovative Farmers #Livingmulches report is an interesting read.
☘️LM can provide excellent #soilhealth benefits & reduce artificial inputs, but the current yield penalty (30%) needs to be reduced.
@organicrescent.bsky.social @thesoilassociation.bsky.social
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Living mulches for sustainable cropping systems: A step towards 'Regenerative Organic' Agriculture in the UK? - Agricology 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 towards a perennial soil cover, offer a ...

This month we are focusing on #livingmulches using legumes to provide protection for the soil as a permanent semi-permanent ground cover
☘️ We kick off by revisiting this blog by Dominic Amos - with key practical considerations for farmers
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Join us at #ORFC25 Oxford Real Farming Conference
for a session on 'Living with #livingmulches' Friday, 10th January, 13.00 – 13.45 GMT (In person). Chaired by our own Matt Smee and featuring @greenacresfarm.bsky.social agricology.co.uk/blog/agricol...
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