Organic Growers Alliance

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 https://mailchi.mp/organicresearchcentre/e-bulletin-january2026

🌳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: https://organicadvicenetwork.space/course/index.php?categoryid=3

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. 🌱

👉 https://www.nffn.org.uk/news/nffn-ceo-speaks-to-the-organic-grower-magazine-about-nature-friendly-farming

#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...

YouTube video by Organic Growers Alliance Holly Bears the Crown

Tim Deane reads from Nature Notes. A seasonal piece about Holly:
Signed copies available from OGA - making great Christmas presents! #NatureWriting #devonbooks organicgrowersalliance.co.uk/nature-notes...

Photo of a packing shed full of seasonal vegetables in crates plus the OGA logo, an icon of a Christmas tree and the words ' December News.'

Welcome to OGA's December News 2025
🎶 O Tannenbaum, how faithful are your leaves 🎵 mailchi.mp/9e6aee222a2e...

🎬In the final Episode of #AgroforestryThroughTheElements, Abbey Home Farm Head Grower Andy Dibben shares his insights on the power of people in #agroforestry systems.🧑‍🤝‍🧑

🌳Listen to the full episode here: agricology.libsyn.com/agroforestry...

#FarmingPodcast #RegenAg #Trees #Silvohorticulture

ADM & Bayer Announce New Regenerative Agriculture Collaboration to Support Farmers in Hungary and Build Supply Chain Resiliency ADM today announced the expansion of its regenerative agriculture program, re:generations™ to Hungary. The program helps build and maintain a more resilient food system and create economic value for g...

In news that should surprise no-one, regenerative agriculture is getting trademarked™

✅ Proprietary digital platforms (oh hi Bayer)
✅ New extension services (likely promoting Bayer products)
✅ More corn, rapeseed and soy
✅ Probably lots of lovely carbon offsets

#RegenAg - ker-ching!

Jez holding a potted herb in a polytunnel

The #OrganicGrower podcast is back! James is in conversation with Jez Taylor, head grower at Daylesford Organic in Gloucestershire. Jez manages 34 ac of organic fruit and veg with a team of 8. www.buzzsprout.com/2316172/epis...

We're excited to put this out into the world with @ogagrowers.bsky.social and funded by @afnnetwork.bsky.social

Thanks to @csanetworkuk.bsky.social @afnnetwork.bsky.social for the guide!

Front cover of Organic Grower with frozen lettuce pic, plus thumbnails of potato, red clover, tomatoes, clubroot and the Organic Growers Gathering.

Front cover of Climate resilience - a guide for growers - showing bountiful produce in a ploytunnel

The #OrganicGrower magazine winter issue is at the printers. Members will get theirs soon, plus a new guide for growers on Climate Resilience organicgrowersalliance.co.uk/join-oga/

"Our launch today, against the backdrop of the climate and nature crises, is an invitation to Government to harness the power of the fruit & veg sector for a healthier, greener & more food-secure future for the UK.”

Three people standing in front of pop-up banners in a panelled room

We're in westminster for the official launch of the UK Fruit & Vegetable Coalition. UKFVC Chair, OGA‘s Steven Jacobs said:
“The UK’s organic, agroecological fruit & veg growers are already delivering multiple wins for health, climate, nature and the economy, but they need support." #organicfarming