#ORFC25
supporter tickets on sale!
ORFC brings the movement together every Jan to lead the way towards a fairer food + farming system in the UK + beyond🌾Supporter tickets help to make ORFC accessible to all 🌍
9-10 Jan 2025 🌱Oxford, UK + Livestream
🎟️
We started with 50 people gathering in Oxford 14 years ago. We’ve now welcomed 5,000 delegates from across the globe, online and in person. A remarkable movement, sharing diverse ideas, stories and knowledge.
#ORFC2023
#RealFarming
#Agroecology
#FoodSovereignty
#ORFCGlobal
has finished it's incredible 7-day run, but you'll be able to watch all Crowdcast and many Zoom sessions on our YouTube channel afterwards, so don't worry if you still have lots to catch up on... 👀
Thank you to our incredible speakers, delegates, funders, sponsors and partners for making our tenth annual conference so wonderful! Here's our
#ORFC19
highlights video
If you want an antidote to a week of zoom meetings, read Rupert Dunn's account of opening his community bakery in St Davids this week. The first 'peasant' bakery in the UK; all bread made from heritage wheat he grew himself and baked in a wood-fired oven.
🌱 THANK YOU
#ORFC23
DELEGATES 🌱
What an incredible few days! And it's not really over - you can still watch the online sessions with speakers from 130 countries anytime!
The
#ORFCGlobal
Programme is now LIVE! We have been very busy, and there is lots to dive into: 150+ hours of sessions, across 6 continents, over 7 days. It's an awesome global line-up:
Got your tickets yet?
#agroecology
#foodsovereignty
There are so many awesome speakers at
#ORFCGlobal
, we decided to make a poster. Stay tuned next week for exciting additions to the (already incredible) line-up. Full programme coming soon...
Book your tickets:
#agroecology
#foodsovereignty
"Looking forward to a convergence of movements shaping the future of food & agriculture & emergence of new ideas to protect the health of the plant & people though cocreation with the living earth"
@drvandanashiva
🌱 don't miss her online at
#ORFC23
We now have audio from almost all
#ORFC18
sessions live on our sound cloud page. Search for the session you want to listen to, or plough through the whole lot, organised by playlists that follow the session timings over the two days:
@GeorgeMonbiot
we want to thank not only
@GeorgeMonbiot
but also all the equally passionate speakers on that panel, and the 100+ speakers throughout
#ORFC20
who talked to climate breakdown and our delegates who tackle the
#ClimateEmergency
in a truly diverse number of ways. We need all of you!
With over 100 UK-based sessions and an exciting line up of must-see global speakers, are you ready for
#ORFC22
? It starts at 2pm tomorrow and runs until Friday. Tickets are available throughout - please share, there is lots of room for everyone online...
🌱Healing our connection with food in the fake food era 🌱
Have you watched our
#ORFC22
archive session with
@drvandanashiva
,
@NavdanyaInt
, Satish Kumar, & Ruchi Schroff?
@drvandanashiva
will be at ORFC in Oxford in January tackling GM, seed sovereignty, and advocating for farmers across the globe 🌱 Have you got your tickets yet?
To celebrate the publication of
#TerraViva
by
@drvandanashiva
, we’ll be sharing some highlights from her lifetime of activism advocating for food sovereignty, indigenous knowledge and the preservation of local seed heritage 🌱👇🌎 (1/10)
Interesting findings from the team at The University of Edinburgh.
Presenting their research on the impacts of N-fertiliser and pesticide use on crops' interactions with agricultural pest and disease organisms!
#ORFCGlobal
Due to rapidly increasing Covid cases, we have decided to move
#ORFC22
entirely ONLINE.
The in-person programme will now be merged with our virtual one - presenting a total of 500 speakers across 135 sessions! We hope you’ll join us.
More info here:
#ORFC24
tickets now on sale! 🎟️
4-5 Jan 2024 🌱 Oxford + Livestream
From a fringe protest of 50 to a global gathering of 5000, ORFC brings the movement together to lead the way towards a fairer food & farming system 🌾🌍
Don’t miss out - book now:
Did you know we're doing a hybrid conference this year?
In-person tickets have sold out, but you can still join us ONLINE, for 70 sessions with 55+ global speakers and live-streamed content from Oxford.
Book tickets:
#ORFC22
#agroecology
📣 We are thrilled to announce that Vandana Shiva will join
#ORFC23
in person in Oxford!
@drvandanashiva
is a world-renowned advocate for agroecological farming & seed sovereignty. Don't miss the chance to watch her speak in January!
Book tickets now:
#ORFC23
ONLINE SESSION 🇯🇴
Palestinian farmer, Doha Asous, will share the challenges of farming under occupation & explain why it’s crucial to tend land & practice a farming livelihood in the face of aggression & land grabs by illegal settlers
Book now:
🌱👩🌾THANK YOU ORFC 2024 DELEGATES 👩🌾🌱
15 years in and
#ORFC24
is 3,500 strong, with an incredible delegation both in Oxford and around the world online 🌍
Here's to agroecology, food sovereignty, this incredible community, and the next 15 years! 🍻
#ORFC24
Welcome everyone to our ninth annual Oxford Real Farming Conference! Please do get involved with the lively discussions, using our conference hashtag which is
#ORFC18
We only have a few days to lobby our MP's and ensure that next weeks Agriculture Bill supports a nature-friendly, agroecological food system. Please sign and share to protect our farmers, our environment and the future of our food system in the UK.
@SoilAssociation
@SusFoodTrust
If you want to help ensure a resilient, sustainable & biodiverse future for UK agriculture, please read my (SHORT!) blog about next week’s vital Agriculture Bill & follow the links to ask your MP to vote for some very smart amendments. And please share!
Will from
@TCFarm
in Bristol wants to see every urban centre ringed by a network of community-led
#organic
food producers. What do you think is the future of
#realfarming
?
#ORFC19
Our co-founder Colin Tudge opening
#ORFC20
with a rousing call to arms on rejecting the status quo when it no longer serves people, the land, farmers, our biosphere
'I think the bottom line is you can't have environmentally sustainable agriculture without democracy in it' - Chris Newman of
@SylvanaquaFarms
Session - Democratising Food Sovereignty
#ORFCGlobal
#ORFCGlobal
ends today, but you'll be able to watch all Crowdcast sessions and many Zoom sessions on our YouTube channel afterwards, so don't worry if you still have lots to catch up on... there's time!
The
#ORFCGlobal
opening plenary kicks off at 12 noon GMT - it's going to be great, make sure you're there! We already have 3,700+ people logged in and waiting... awesome.
Do you have queries about accessing the conference? Take a look here:
#ORFCGlobal
tickets go on sale tomorrow! Confirmed speakers include; US farmers, Will Harris & Naima Penniman, activists, Francis Moore Lappe, Lyla June, Rob Hopkins & Nnimmo Bassey, soil specialists, Didi Pershouse & Jairo Restrepo + many incredible communities around the world.
🌾CALLING ALL FARMERS, LAND WORKERS & GROWERS🌾
We want to hear your
#agroecology
&
#farming
stories!
Are there pressing issues in farm practice & policy that the ORFC community needs to consider & discuss?
Let us know 🌱
Please RT: Just a few weeks left to get your early bird tickets for the Oxford Real Farming Conference. £15 for farmers & food producers, £25 for everyone else: Don’t miss it... we've got an epic line-up!
#ORFCGlobal
Our biggest year yet - 1000 of you across multiple venues (we needed more space for you wonderful lot) and a waiting list so long we wish we had yet more space for you all! If you’re headed to
#ORFC19
then check out this video from Conference Manager, Tom Simpson
Join us at the virtual cinema tonight, 8PM GMT, to watch Gather - the story of a growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty. Book through the link in today's delegate email.
#ORFCGlobal
#ORFC20
Conference Manager Francesca, talking through the big issues up for discussion at this year's conference. As usual the practical sessions look set to be useful and fascinating, and we're looking forward to welcoming you all to Oxford next week!
What an amazing pair of women currently speaking over at
#ORFCGlobal
!! Truly momentous occasion! 🙌🙌🙌
Helena Norberg-Hodge & Alice Waters
Session: Local Food Can Change the World
ORFC22 starts today! 🌾
We are so excited to be kicking the event off with a fantastic line-up of speakers, from the UK and beyond. Sessions will start from 2pm - swipe to find out what’s on this afternoon!
Tickets are available throughout:
#ORFC22
@GeorgeMonbiot
First of all, thank you
@GeorgeMonbiot
for speaking. You definitely started a discussion. which is surely a good thing. There were boos to some of your statements, but you were also applauded and cheered at other points.
From 'Nitrogen: The Global Farming Challenge': Soil & air have enough nutrients for the next 10,000 years; what is missing is soil biology. We have to work with nature's systems. The challenge is how to take it to all farmers & support transformation
#ORFCGlobal
@SoilAssociation
We will be recording great stories
@ORFC
to keep the knowledge sharing alive after conf is over. DM us or come say hi if you have something to share :) We share the voices of the independent farming community! Find our latest show here:
“we have lost the plot when imports like jackfruit (flown in, in tins) and silicon valley meat substitutes are more socially acceptable in the UK than a British lamb chop. We destroy our diversity and are losing the culture from agriculture” -
@JoannaBlythman
#ORFC20
Come work with us! The Real Farming Trust are looking for a comms co-ordinator 2 days a week. You will work across all the RFT's programmes including ORFC. A minimum of 2 years comms experience please and confidence in pitching to the media. See more here;
Consistently over 4000 attendees through the day, from all over the planet, a truly global event showing the real interest in doing things differently, shame we can't get to the pub to talk about it all! Superb job
@ORFC
#ORFCGlobal
"What we're doing to Mother Earth is matricide" says Australian author, Charles Massy. in his talk with the incredible Bruce Pascoe tonight at
#ORFCGlobal
.Join us for the weekend and watch it on on playback. Other talks coming up include Lyla June, Merlin Sheldrake & Naomi Klein
It's that time again... we're now inviting proposals for the 2022 Oxford Real Farming Conference!
#ORFC2022
We'll be gathering in person and online next January. Be sure to send us your ideas by 22 August. More info here: Please share with your networks.
Don't miss out on our inaugural ORFC in the Field
@FarmED
in early July. Two days of hands-on workshops from incredible practitioners in everything from heritage grains to beekeeping to agroforestry. Great food and great company too!
General tickets for the 13th Oxford Real Farming Conference are now on sale! It's our first in-person conference for two years. Book early and please share, these tickets will go fast:
Thank you all for a wonderful
#ORFC18
- stay tuned as we share resources covering all the great stuff you created these last couple of days. We’re on FB, SoundCloud and YouTube as well, and everything will get shared to Happy weekend from the ORFC team
Update for delegates: you only need to book for workshops, no booking is needed for talks. We're emailing all delegates today about how to join the conference, so keep your eyes peeled for that... 👀
#ORFCGlobal
Tickets for ORFC 2021 have been released! These are advance supporter tickets for our global, online conference next January with farmers, food producers, campaigners and many others from around the world. Help make ORFC accessible to farmers everywhere.
We want to hear from you! In these difficult times,
#ORFC
wants to help support and connect our community by sharing news and stories from the food and farming frontlines. Send us videos or pics from the farm, tell us how your community is responding...email francesca
@orfc
.org.uk
Why is diversity more important than abundance?
We need global change in supporting diversity with the reallocation of subsidies to value diversity at the
#farm
level and encourage farmers to focus on that.
@DanSaladinoUK
#ORFC23
It's Day Two at
#ORFC22
🥳
From today, there will be up to 14 sessions running at once - so navigating the programme might seem tricky!
Our Conference Director, Francesca Price shares her top picks for today ⬇️
"It is only possible to tell these stories because someone out there was saving these seeds and fighting for
#diversity
."
Eating to Exctinction with
@DanSaladinoUK
#ORFC23
It should be possible to provide good food for everyone without wrecking the natural world, and without cruelty or injustice. Join us online at
#ORFCGlobal
in January and let's tackle our broken food system together:
over
#ORFC20
1000 delegates chose from 118 talks on topics ranging from climate, agroecology, access to land and increasing diversity, to practical sessions such as beekeeping, growing pulses and weed management. Check out and RT our highlights video
A fantastically detailed introduction into the living, thriving soil ecosystem that sustains us currently taking place at the
#ORFCGlobal
Speakers - Joel Williams & Tom Morrison
The ever excellent
@BBCFarmingToday
begins its coverage of
@ORFC
and
@oxfordfarming
conferences - small clarification though to
#OFC19
chair’s statement: there are actually over 1000 delegates just coming to
#ORFC19
for our biggest year yet
Why do food producers using organic methods without pesticides etc have to pay to label food as such when those who use non-agroecological methods don't - will you change this?
#ORFC18
‘At the beginning of what could be a rather bleak January, we are confident that ORFC will remain a place to find community and hope.’
Our Conference Director Francesca Price sheds some light on the exciting line-up we have planned for
#ORFC22
🌟
DAY ONE of
#ORFC23
Online!
Can't decide what to watch? Each day we'll be sharing insights into what the team is most looking forward to to help guide you along the way. Today co-founder Ruth shares her pick 🌱
It's not too late to join us online! Book 🎟
Are you a land worker, farmer, forester, food or land justice advocate? Care about community, skills and celebration? Landworkers' Alliance
@LandworkersUK
members are coming together for 3 days of learning, community and revelry at Abbey Home Farm in Gloucestershire, 12-15 Aug:
There is just 1 DAY left to get your discounted early bird tickets to
#ORFCGlobal
- book here:
Here's a little taster of the incredible speaker line-up in our latest newsletter:
#agroecology
#foodsovereignty
"So much of farming is about domineering landscapes, plants and animals. In our farming, we wanted to...view ourselves not as the pinnacle of dominance, but more as one of many ecological players" Rebecca Hosking's great piece on Agriwilding in
#ORFCReview
🎟️ ORFC 2023 tickets are on sale now!🎟️
Join the largest gathering of the
#realfarming
movement in the UK in Oxford & online from 4-6 January 2023 & connect with thousands working towards a fairer food & farming system 🌱
Tickets go fast - don’t miss out
🌱CALL FOR PROPOSALS OPEN🌱
Send us your ideas for ORFC 2024!
For the 15th ORFC we will welcome the global community to Oxford to celebrate the connections made & stories shared since our first gathering. Help us create a dynamic & radical programme! 👇
Farmers at
#ORFC22
-
Would you like some help and support with the agricultural transition? The YOUR FARMING
FUTURE programme is providing the following for FREE to farmers:
👉FARMER TO FARMER WEBINARS
👉1 ON 1 ADVICE & PEER SUPPORT
👉TRANSITION TOOL KIT
The UK’s first undergraduate degree in Sustainable Food and Farming has been launched by
@SchumacherColl
to train up a new generation of agroecological farmers and ethical food entrepreneurs. The application deadline is 1 July - find out more:
Farmers need to take ownership of conservation. We need to take messages to farmers that maintenance of soils and water quality is as important as habitats.
#ORFC18
#goodfarming
Are you a radical and strategic thinker? The team behind
#ORFCGlobal
is looking for new trustees to join the Real Farming Trust: Deadline: 14th February. Please RT!
#agroecology
#foodsovereignty