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Why Vegan Organic? Vegan Organic Farming Goes Beyond Standard Certified Organic Practices Summer 2021 No.55 The ORGANICThe journal of the Organic GROWER Growers Alliance Growing growers on Gower p20 Organic food for all p18 Transfer mulches for protected cropping p32 Urban fringe farming for Green economic recovery p28 Low intensity apples p22 Page 1 - The Organic Grower - No 55 Summer 2021 IN THIS ISSUE The Board talk .......................................................... 3 ORGANIC GROWER News .................................................................. 4 The Organic Grower is edited by Phil Sumption, with help from Carolyn Wacher, Jim Aplin and Kate Collyns. If you have any news, events or ideas for articles please get in touch. OGA AGM 2021 ............................................. 6 [email protected] Agroforestry in organic horticulture ................ 8 Thanks to all our contributors. Adverts: John Crocker [email protected] Digging deeper into no dig ............................... 9 Copy date for next issue: August 15th 2021 The Organic Grower is the membership magazine of the Organic Growers Alliance CIC (OGA). Views expressed in The Organic The Frost report: Spring diary ........................ 10 Grower are not necessarily those of the OGA or its committee. Every effort is made to check the factual accuracy of statements made in the Vegan organic farming ......................................11 magazine, but no guarantees are expressed or implied. In particular, readers should satisfy themselves about the authenticity of products or inputs advertised. Material may not be reproduced without prior New EU organic action plan .......................... 12 written permission. Printed by Severnprint on 100% recycled paper using vegetable based Organic seed sector innovations ..................... 14 inks and powered by renewable energy, with a view to seeking out more environmentally friendly mailing solution on all future copies. Organic Growers Alliance CIC Growing the Goods: ELMS update ................ 16 Company No. 11551999 Registered in England and Wales Organic food for all ......................................... 18 Growing growers on Gower ........................... 20 Low intensity apples ....................................... 22 Editor’s notes Welcome to the Summer issue of The Organic Grower, a little late Amendments for soil health in top fruit ......... 24 maybe, but just like the season. The picture opposite captures May in a nutshell. I hope that the crops are now catching up after the Alternative fertilizers in intensive organic apple late and slow start. production ....................................................... 25 For those of us who believe that organic food should not be the preserve of the well off, but a basic human and environmental right, the stories Seed sovereignty in Wales .............................. 26 of how growers are providing access to organic food for the needier Fringe farming for a green economic recovery ...28 sections of their communities, are heart-warming and inspiring (pp18- 20). We know the food system is broken and Food Banks shouldn’t 75 years of the Soil Association ...................... 30 be needed, but growers can be part of building a better world. Tom O’Kane is doing exactly that with Cae Tan CSA working to support a Transfer mulch in organic greenhouses ......... 32 thriving community of growers and CSAs on the Gower (p20). Seed Sovereignty in Wales is the subject of Katie Hasting’s article which Nature note – Dandelions............................... 35 covers the launch of the Welsh Seed Hub (p26). Events .............................................................. 36 It’s not just Wales – organic and agroecological food production in the urban fringe needs to be part of any green economic recovery and Rob Logan reports on a new Sustain project aiming to facilitate access to land for peri- OGA CIC Directors urban farming (p28). Pete Richardson Devon 07821 403739 [email protected] Chair It’s not just veg either - we devote Tony Little Wales [email protected] Wales a few pages to top fruit and a low- Ben Raskin Wiltshire 07990 592621 [email protected] SA liaison intensity system of apple production devised by Julian Eldridge that may Jim Aplin Worcs 07796 317542 [email protected] Secretary be useful to veg growers wanting to Tamara Schiopu Oxon 07795 334474 [email protected] incorprate agroforestry (p22). Mick Marston Newcastle 07764 221425 [email protected] North of England Phil Sumption, Editor Antonia Ineson Scotland 07872 057985 [email protected] Scotland rep (not Director) Cover: Abbi Mason trainee at Cae Tan and founder of Big Meadow CSA (p20). Photo: Erika May Photography Page 2 - The Organic Grower - No 55 Summer 2021 The COVID 19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of our role in connecting and supporting the organic growing Board talk community. We are pleased to report our membership is up, and that our programme of online and events and webinars really Tricky springs are increasingly becoming a feature of the UK helped to keep us together, if only in cyberspace. The last year growing year, and 2021 is no exception. A cold April and a cold has seen important developments in post-Brexit agricultural and wet May meant propagation tunnels across the nation have policy and the OGA has had a seat at the table in forums in been bursting at the seams as growers hold back planting out to the all the UK nations. Holly has revolutionised our website and last possible moment. We hope the recent spell of warm (and many communications; and The Organic Grower continues to be highly places dry) conditions has allowed many of you get back on track, valued by the membership and has played a crucial role in sharing at least to some extent. Here’s hoping for a favourable summer! experience as growers adapted and responded to COVID. In OGA news, it is with great sadness that we say goodbye to Greta Looking to the future, we’ve got exciting and important work to Hughson, our Development Manager. In the relatively short time do in many areas, but particularly around certification, organic she was with us, she had an enormous impact, helping to develop regulations and policy development. And this where we need you. some of our key policy positions, liaising with our funders and, We are always looking to expand and strengthen the Board, so if alongside Holly, steering our webinar and knowledge exchange you think would like to join, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. programme through challenging times. She leaves with our sincere thanks and our best wishes for the future. We’ve all missed being able to get together in person over the last year or so. But as restrictions ease, we are delighted that Every organisation needs its stalwarts and ours, as you well know, some physical events can resume, and I draw your attention to is Phil Sumption. In the interim, alongside his role as OG editor, the ‘Events’ section of the magazine. We will of course be closely Phil will be picking up the key aspects of Greta’s role. These include observing all the COVID guidance, but of all the things we’re leading on the Organic Matters Conference 2021, coordinating looking forward to this summer, getting out to see you all again is other events and webinars and acting as our main link in the at the top of our list! Agroecological Research Collaboration. Thank you, Phil! Organic Growers Alliance Board of Directors The AGM is always an opportunity to look back on the events of the last year – and you can read about it in detail on Page 6. Photo: Coleshill Organics Gloves drying in the tunnel at Coleshill Organics after a wet week in May.... Page 3 - The Organic Grower - No 55 Summer 2021 100% peat-free OGA/Organic news Organic food and farming in Scotland - Realising potential Proven peat-free growing media and ingredients The Scottish Organic Stakeholders Group has been discussing the • Sylvamix® Natural Melcourt’s Soil Association-approved sustainable peat-free growing medium is widely used throughout way forward for organic food and farming in Scotland over the last the UK for a wide range of applications from seed sowing to few months. A ‘Proposition for Action’ has been put together and is containerisation being sent to Mairi Gougeon, the new Cabinet Secretary for Rural • Bark-based growing medium ingredients are unrivalled Affairs and Islands in early June. It has been signed by a range of in quality and consistency and Soil Association approved farming and environmental organisations, farmers and growers, and people involved in processing and retailing organic food. It has • Bark-based mulches are effective, consistent and cost competitive built on the work of the Scottish Organic Forum, but involves a much All Melcourt products are based on materials sourced and manufactured wider group of people and organisations. The SNP manifesto for the in the UK - backed up by customer service that is widely acknowledged as being second to none. recent election included targets for increased organic land area and for public procurement of organic food, and that, combined with the Melcourt have been supplying the grower market in the UK for three COP meeting in Glasgow later in the year and the need for action post decades and have been certified by the Soil Association since 1991. COVID, provides a potential turning point for organics in Scotland. The Proposition refers to the recent EU target of at least 25% of agricultural land to be organic by 2030, with all EU countries Melcourt Industries Ltd • Boldridge Brake • Long Newnton • Tetbury being required to develop plans for how to achieve that (EU Gloucestershire GL8 8RT T: 01666 502711 • F: 01666 504398 • E: [email protected] Farm to Fork Strategy and Communication, An Action Plan for www.melcourt.co.uk the Development of Organic Production). It calls for a similar @melcourtltd plan and target for Scotland to be put together by the Scottish Government by the end of 2021, with stakeholders and all who have signed up to the Proposition being keen to work with the government to take this forward.
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