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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.

Oxford
Panel Discussion
Workshop

Speakers

Dan Burdett

Bryce Cunningham

Clare Hill

Chair

Abigail Williams

Languages

English

Format

Audio

11:00 GMT
05/01/2023

Stepping off the Dairy Treadmill

How can we step off the dairy treadmill? Join farmers from the Food Ethics Council’s Dairy Project who are seeking to overcome lock-ins relating to dairy.

Oxford
Workshop

Speakers

Teresa Meadows
Jenny Phelps

Languages

English

Format

Audio, PDF

11:00 GMT
Thursday, 5 January 2023

Farming and Community Advice and Support for our Landscape, Climate and Nature Recovery

This session will set out a shared vision for how to find structured local support for farmers and communities to deliver resilience and climate action. It will demonstrate an integrated framework and the essential role of farmer collaboration and facilitation. It will help delegates understand how to contribute to creating a structure around the complex architecture of farm and community advice in a climate emergency. It will explore the many partnership roles needed to deliver…

Oxford
Workshop

Speakers

Hatty Richards

Holly Tomlinson

Rhian Williams

Languages

English

Format

Audio

11:00 GMT
05/01/23

Overcoming Barriers to New Entrants (Workshop)

In the UK, many of the landworkers within our movement are new entrants: people who haven’t been born into farming families, or who are new to agroecology. If you’re a new entrant of any age and involved in any kind of land work, join us for this session where we will share our experiences and inspiration as landworkers.

Oxford
Workshop

Speakers

Samson Hart

Sara Moon

Languages

English

Format

Audio

11:00 GMT
05/01/23

Building a Jewish Land and Food Justice Movement in the UK

How to cultivate Jewish identity and community rooted in ‘radical diasporism’? How to mobilise the Jewish community to act on food and land justice issues? How to link in to the wider land justice movement whilst articulating a specific Jewish experience in relationship with land? This session will share the work of Miknaf Ha'aretz in building a radical, diasporist, Jewish food and land justice movement in the UK, offering Jewish identifying folks more access points…

Oxford
Panel Discussion
Workshop

Speakers

Mark Betson

Philip Franses

Marina O’Connell

Jeremy Smith

Chair

Gabriel Kaye

Languages

English

Format

Audio

14:00 GMT
05/01/2023

Biodynamics for Local Food and Nature Restoration: Trialling a model with Diocesian land

Finding land for growing local food, nature restoration and carbon capture is a huge challenge. The Apricot Centre has been given an opportunity to trial an innovative approach, with a tenancy on land owned by the local Exeter Diocese.

Oxford
Workshop

Speakers

Rachel Sweeney

Languages

English

Format

Audio

14:00 GMT
05/01/2023

Unearthing: Developing social permaculture philosophy and principles through shared movement practice (Workshop)

This workshop explores practical and embodied tools to explore social permaculture principles, reflecting on transitions, interconnections and empathy concepts in community practices, centred on progressive learning and co-development.

Oxford
Workshop

Speakers

Ali Taherzadeh

Languages

English

Format

Audio, PDF

16:00 GMT
05/01/2023

Organising Together for Transformation (Workshop)

This participatory session invites landworkers, activists and organisations interested in supporting agroecological transformations to come together to discuss how we can strengthen our collective movement ecology to have the biggest impact.

Oxford
Workshop

Speakers

Sonia Sinanan

Zoe Wangler

 

Languages

English

Format

Audio

16:00 GMT
05/01/23

How to Start a Community Land-Based Project

Want advice about starting a community land-based project? The Ecological Land Cooperative share their learnings from 15 years of developing agroecological smallholdings for new entrants to ecological farming. The aim is to demystify the journey of buying community-owned farmland. The session will explore how to develop a viable business plan, finance your project, write planning applications, choose governance structures, and ensure good relationships between community owners and tenants.

Oxford
Workshop

Speakers

Samson Hart

Mama D

Sui Searle

Languages

English

Format

Audio

16:00 GMT
05/01/23

Belonging to the Land: Resistance and resilience

In our interactive, reflective and embodied session, Mama D, Sui Searle and Samson Hart will discuss our relationships to land, belonging, spirituality, resilience and resistance within ourselves and our movements. We look towards understanding land as belonging, sovereignty, homeland, or identity beyond capitalism and we re-imagine co-liberation through land and spiritual practice. We will share our experiences in relation to specific questions, then open these up to wider discussion and reflection.

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