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The ORFC archives are in development and all session recordings from 2010 – 2022 are coming soon! Keep scrolling to explore the full ORFC 2023 session list.

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Explore older session recordings on the ORFC YouTube Channel. Archival material from ORFC 2012 – 2020 can be found on the old ORFC website.

Please note many of the recordings are made by volunteers, using non-professional equipment. If you have any questions about the content, or would like to add anything to the archive, please contact francesca@orfc.org.uk.

Lunchtime Talk
Oxford

Speakers

Mary Dobbing

Carol Laslett

Patrick Mallery

Languages

English

Format

Audio

13:00 GMT
05/01/2023

Street Goat-Urban Goat Rearing for High Welfare Milk and Meat

Street Goat is an urban micro dairy collective based in Bristol which aims to bring animal farming back into urban spaces and bring people closer to where their food comes from. Since the project's foundation in 2015, it has grown to have three milking sites across Bristol and a regenerative grazing project called Meat Goat.

Lunchtime Talk
Oxford

Speakers

Kelly Jowett

Languages

English

Format

Audio

13:00 GMT
05/01/2023

Introduction to Beneficial Beetle Monitoring and Identification

A session describing why and how to monitor beneficial beetles on farms. This will focus on carabid beetles (which eat crop pests and weed seeds), dung beetles (which cycle cattle dung, improving pastures and reducing associated pests) and the farm measures that can encourage abundance and diversity of species in different systems.

Lunchtime Talk
Oxford
Panel Discussion

Speakers

Peter Brooks

Areej Ashhab

Gabriella Demczuk

Jacob Bertilsson

Languages

English

Format

Audio

13:00 GMT
05/01/2023

Investigative Ecology: Critical views on the politics of contemporary agriculture

How can spatial practices within a framework of critical research intervene in the pressing ecological issues of our time? Investigative Ecology assembles artist-researchers from the Centre for Research Architecture (CRA) whose investigations look into the political forces shaping agriculture and the environmental space.

Lunchtime Talk
Oxford

Speakers

Cornwall’s Climate Stories

Languages

English

Format

Audio

13:00 GMT
05/01/2023

Cornwall’s Climate Stories (Documentary Screening and Discussion)

Should we all give up meat and dairy if we’re to have a hope of avoiding climate breakdown? This is what the headlines seem to tell us. But is this too simplistic a picture – and what would this mean for Cornwall, where most of our farmland is used to raise livestock or to grow crops for these animals to eat?

Lunchtime Talk
Oxford
Panel Discussion

Speakers

Vandana Shiva
Charles Dowding
Ruby Reed
Christabel Reed

Languages

English

Format

Video

14:00 GMT
Thursday, 5 January 2023

Ecosystem Restoration and Agroecology through Online Learning

The UN reports that the only way we can meet the global target of 1 billion restored hectares in the next eight years and avoid ecosystem collapse is to support people across the world to engage in localised ecosystem restoration. Join this lunchtime session and explore how we can leverage online learning to support a peer-driven, participatory global ecosystem restoration movement.

Lunchtime Talk
Oxford

Speakers

Catherine McAndrew

Languages

English

Format

Audio, PDF

13:00 GMT
06/01/2023

Solidarity with Migrant Workers in Europe

This presentation will explore working and environmental conditions at the bottom of the corporate supply chain. Wage workers are often at the sharpest edge of the exploitative practices of corporate food systems that aim to extract wealth from both the land and the people that work it.Catherine McAndrew

Lunchtime Talk
Oxford

Speakers

Donna Udall

Languages

English

Format

Audio

13:00 GMT
06/01/2023

The Benefits of Native Ponies in Welsh Landscapes

The native ponies of Wales are in decline. They live in many landscapes including coasts, moors, marshes and mountains that provide a range of socio-ecosystem services. These services include supporting (e.g. biodiversity), provisioning (grazing), regulating (flood prevention) and cultural services.

Lunchtime Talk
Oxford

Speakers

Satish Kumar

Chair

Ruby Reed

Languages

English

Format

PDF

13:00 GMT
06/01/2023

Moving Forward with Positivity in Challenging Times with Satish Kumar

Farming is fabulous, but it is not only hard work, it is also frustrating to be a farmer in these challenging times.

Lunchtime Talk
Oxford
Workshop

Speakers

Nicola Westgate

Jane Dobson

Pammy Riggs

Chair

Chris Aukland MRCVS

Languages

English

Format

Audio, PDF

13:00 GMT
06/01/2023

Can We Make Health ‘Infectious’? Explore the effects of subtle energy systems on overall farm health (Workshop)

Farmers relying on ‘subtle energy systems’ for farm and livestock health, such as bio-energetic, biodynamic, homeopathic, radionic and other resonance systems, report a corresponding amplification of the health and vitality of the whole farm. This session shares the experiences of farmers achieving measurable results with such systems and explores the questions this raises.

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