Organic Farmers & Growers

Assuring organic standards

Something’s brewing…


We’ll start here with an apology. Despite a good track record of keeping up the blogging on a relatively regular basis, it’s been a bit quiet around here for a week or two. Sorry about that. Without wanting to over-blow our own importance, the stats don’t lie and we know that we have a pretty [...]
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“Does my bum look big in this?”


Overalls. Not the most flattering of attire at the best of times, but they’re there to do a job and they are a mainstay of the farming world. However one of our licensee’s was unfortunate enough today to have our Certification Manager, Steve Clarkson, walking behind him toting a camera-equipped smartphone when the elements conspired [...]
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John shares the day-to-day of organic farming


In a world where pretty much everything seems to happen online now, you would expect there to be a wealth of useful content on the practical aspects of organic farming. Somewhere among all those celebrity tantrums on Twitter and videos of cute kittens doing funny things, there really is a wealth of helpful, real world [...]
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Vote for our pumpkin posers


After an absence of a year, the (in)famous OF&G pumpkin carving competition has returned! The idea was tentatively floated in the office last week and such was the enthusiasm in the response (from most quarters, anyway…) that we pressed on and, voila, here are the results! The pumpkins were organic, sourced from our licensee, Mark [...]
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Organics: down a bit, but far, far from out…


This year’s Selling Organic conference held some real ‘wow’ moments. Contrary to the doom and gloom you might have expected, we heard of rocketing turnovers, growing exports and successful expansion. There were a string of upbeat presentations from people at the sharp end of the organic food sector who talked unfailingly of growth. Of course, [...]
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The People’s Supermarket: hear from the the man behind the mission


Next week (October 13, to be precise) sees the third annual running of our Selling Organic series of conferences at which we bring together some of the sector’s greatest minds to share their expertise and examine the state of the market. We’re really pleased with this year’s line-up of speakers, which has some fresh faces [...]
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