ORFC to host agroecological farming gathering in Scotland

Join leading practitioners for three days of practical workshops, talks, storytelling, music and farm tours in October 2024, in the beautiful 230-acre grounds of Comrie Croft in the Southern Highlands of Scotland.

The organisers of the Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC) will host 'ORFC in the Field' at Comrie Croft, Perthshire, 9th-10th October 2024, plus an optional day of farm visits.

The hands-on event will explore how young people are finding a way back to the land and farming, re-introducing traditional skills, applying new agroecological knowledge and practices, and inspiring more young people to do the same.

Find out more and book your place here

Over three days, the organisers will host a series of practical workshops and talks including:

Cultivating and integrating various mushroom species into your garden or farm with Rhyze Mushrooms Co-op
Learning how to make a Lazy Bed to produce great soil with seaweed
Heritage Seeds: understand their importance and how to save your own seeds with Seeds of Scotland
Tour Comrie Croft Farm with Andrew Donaldson and learn about Andrew’s journey to accessing land in Scotland
Explore Tomnah'a Market Garden with lead grower, Catherine

There will be delicious local food offerings for lunches and dinners as well as folktales and music in the evenings. Following the workshops, there is an optional day of farm visits (Friday, 11th October) for participants to see some of the best Scottish agroecological farms.

Published 25 Jun 2024

Kath Dalmeny

Chief Executive
Sustain

Kath is Chief Executive of Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming.

Among many initiatives, Kath has helped to design and instigate: the Sustainable Fish Cities alliance campaign, which has now won pledges to serve 100% verifiably sustainable fish from caterers that together serve 1 billion meals a year; the Good Food for Our Money campaign and the Campaign for Better Hospital Food, which together won healthy and sustainable food standards for Whitehall, prisons and parts of the armed forces, and in NHS Standard Contracts for hospitals. She now sits on the steering group for the Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics, campaigning to end the overuse of antibiotics in farming.

Kath also instigated and helped to develop the Good Food for London and Beyond the Food Bank reports, now established for several years, mapping uptake of good food schemes by London boroughs, for the benefit of citizens, food producers, farm animals and the environment, and encouraging healthy competition between local authorities. In 2017, she helped to launch of the Right to Food initiative, aiming to provide the legal foundations that would ensure that everyone, no matter what their circumstances, is able to eat well and not experience hunger. The Right to Food principle was adopted in the manifestos of Labour, the Lib Dems, the Green Party and the SNP in the 2019 General Election.

ORFC to host agroecological farming gathering in Scotland

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