ORFC 2026 8 – 9 Jan
ORFC 2026 8 – 9 Jan
Join us for a lunchtime conversation between butcher Joanna Kudryńska and Marthe Kiley-Worthington, an experienced ethologist and ecologist focused on animal welfare. Marthe has spent several decades studying the epistemology of cattle, horses, elephants, and rhinos, and now runs an ecological farm on Exmoor. Marthe and Joanna will be discussing taboos related to slaughter and directing their attention towards areas that are usually omitted with the aim of improving both animal and human welfare.
Plum Village is a Zen Buddhist Monastery and Mindfulness Practice Centre in the South of France. Within our Agroecology farm which we call The Happy Farm we centre the interbeing or interconnectedness of food production, sacred ecology and the wellbeing of the farmers. This is expressed as a sacred trilogy of food, ecology and farmer. Our farm exists not just to cultivate seasonal, organic and nutrient-dense food for our community, but to help all those…
Oaks display many fine qualities: appreciation, generosity, stability, resilience, connection, strength, presence, knowledge, wisdom, family, protection, care, meaning and wonder. Benedict welcomes us to envision a bright future, a land of plenty, a vibrant world of loving connection. He invites this by planting oak saplings of known provenance, grown from acorns of some of the oldest powerful veteran and ancient oaks of England. This talk explores Benedict’s oak journey, as he weaves a story of…