Events

Farm walkThe Soil Association continues to provide dedicated training events for farmers and growers across the UK, as well as providing technical support to other organisations and alerting Soil Association members about relevant non-Soil Association events.

Through our training events and wider services we aim to inspire and support new entrants to enter organic agriculture, to provide practical work-based training through our Organic Apprenticeship Scheme, as well as ongoing professional development for more established organic practicioners.

Our events focus on encouraging 'best practice' across all farming and growing sectors, disseminating current research, marketing support and market information, as well as creating new trading links and opportunities for all organic businesses.

When planning our programme we always include a broad range of expert speakers and the majority of our courses include a visit to a farm or site that displays 'best practice' in its field.

New futures in farmland ownership

02 July 2013

2 July, 10.00pm - 5.00pm Hamilton House, Bristol

The Soil Association and Biodynamic Land Trust are working with the Community Land Advisory Service to host an event on ‘New futures in farmland ownership’.

The day will look at farmland ownership, how we can make it stack up economically and how communities in France have taken real ownership of their land and food supply through the work of Terre de liens.
This event is part of an EU wide project on access to land for sustainable farming and will include participants from across Europe with stories to share about sustainable management of agricultural ...

Seed Festival 2013 - Hawkwood, Stroud

06 July 2013

Hawkwood College, Painswick Old Road, Stroud. GL6 7QW

Musicians, Poets, Artists, Inspiring Eco Speakers, Movers and Shakers and YOU! Seed Festival inspires a more intimate and personal connection with our living world and our place within it. Create • D...

Farm Walk: Wakelyns Farm - Suffolk

17 July 2013

 Professor Martin S Wolfe, Wakelyns, Metfield Lane,Fressingfield,Suffolk, IP21 5SD

Farm Background: 23 ha of arable and agroforestry. The farm is entirely experimental, the main feature being a range of different agroforestry alley-cropping systems. There is one organic rotation in...

Farm Walk: Caerhys Farm, Pembrokeshire

18 July 2013

Rupert Dunn,Caerhys Farm,Berea,St Davids,Pembrokeshire,SA62 6DX 

Farm Background: Caerhys Farm is on the picturesque coastline of North Pembrokeshire. We produce pasture fed Welsh Black beef and pork. We also grow vegetables for our CSA scheme, Caerhys Organic Com...

Farm Walk: Northdown Orchard - Hampshire

24 July 2013

Mike Fisher Northdown Orchard South LItchfield, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG25 3BP

Farm Background:5ha of horticulture. Box scheme since 1994, also supply field and protected crops to Riverford. Field crops and 1000m2 protected cropping, intercropping with green manures and green m...

Seminars with Iain Tolhurst: Irrigation and Water Management for Growers

29 July 2013

Walled Garden Shed, Hardwick Estate, Whitchurch-on-Thames, RG8 7RD. Reading

Irrigation and water management for growers. Everything (well almost) you need to know about irrigation from tunnels up to field scale. The weather is a fickle thing and can leave you high and dry so...

Farm Walk: Strickley Farm, Cumbria

30 July 2013

James Robinson,WH & KM Robinson,Strickley,Old Hutton, Kendal,LA8 0LU

Strickley is an organic dairy farm comprising of 240 acres which has been in the Robinson family for 5 generations. We have a pedigree herd of 100 Dairy Shorthorns plus followers. We have always take...

Seminars with Iain Tolhurst: Extending the season

30 July 2013

Walled Garden Shed, Hardwick Estate, Whitchurch-on-Thames, RG8 7RD. Reading

Extending the season for organic vegetable producers. This seminar is for organic producers with box schemes or other direct sales outlets; it would also be of considerable use to other growers aimin...

Farm Walk: Penyrallt Home Farm, Carmarthenshire

08 August 2013

David and Jinsy Robinson, Penyrallt Home Farm, Pentrecwrt, Llandysul, Carmarthenshire, SA44 5DW

Farm Background: Penyrallt Home Farm is a traditional family-run mixed farm of approximately 140 acres. We have a dairy herd of British Friesians & Ayrshires, Hereford Cross Friesian Beef animals and...

Farm Walk: Higher Farm, Devon

14 August 2013

Michael Rogers, Underwood, Higher  Farm, Beeson, Kingsbridge,TQ72HW

Farm Background: The farm comprises of 160 acres, all in Higher Level Stewardship. We farm a beef suckler herd and some winter field vegetables. We are into the second year of developing a 1.5 acre f...
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Low carbon farming event (Kent) - 'Moving towards low carbon farming'

The Low Carbon Farming project events moved to Kent during the sunny week in late May with a sucessful day at Commonwork Farm, Bore Place. The morning session was held in the farm's 'low carbon' conf...

Low carbon farming event - Practical measures to reduce farm emissions

The 2012 programme of low carbon farming events took off with a one day event held in Sydling, near Dorchester. A well attended day, packed with interesting talks and a great farm tour of Sydling Bro...

bTB Badger vaccination meeting (Wales)

To help our Welsh farmers make informed decisions about all the options available to them to reduce the risks of bTB on their farms a meeting was held at Gelli Aur College Farm in Carmarthenshire whe...

Weed Workshops - N.E + S.W Completed

Following listening to producers needs and identifying weed control in grassland systems is near the top of the list we hosted two Weed Workshops this October. One in the South West at Rob Halliday’s...

Low carbon farming event - Moving towards low carbon farming. Woodland Valley Farm, Cornwall

The second of our planned events took place at Woodland Valley Farm, near Ladock in Cornwall last Tuesday with a morning session of expert speakers followed by a delicious lunch and farm walk.
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