ORFC 2025

Facilitators: Sofie Elise Quist, Margherita Paola Poto, Laura Vita, Diana Garduño Jiménez 

The Ocean sustains all life but is often absent from our thinking about food and agriculture. This workshop allows participants to foster a deeper connection with the seas and engage in the wonders of ocean literacy through storytelling, games, and reflexive activities. We start with storytelling about (re) connecting with the sea through food. Then participants will be divided into groups to join in immersive activities developed by the Ocean Incubator Network to explore the role of the Ocean in food systems from our different standpoints. The workshop ends with a reflexive walk, and an invitation to implement care for the Ocean in our own spheres of influence.

ORFC2025 Workshop: Learning to Connect with the Ocean

Facilitator: Amy Dakin Harris

Join Amy as she shares gentle movement practices that help us ‘meet’ and nurture exchange with the land that we work with. With the aim of expanding ‘regenerative’ practices into the life of the landworker, Amy has been drawing on her training in somatic movement to devise simple exercises that support us in attuning to presence, for listening and conversing with the landscape of our own bodies, as well as other beings’ bodies (human/more-than-human). There will be invitations to move, witness, and give/receive light touch, with the choice to opt-out or adapt. All bodies and experiences are welcome.

ORFC2025 Workshop Embodiment in the Land: Practising Reciprocity

Speaker: Rose Davis

Chair: Jess Abis

For many small-scale, localised, and regenerative food producers, profitability can feel like an uphill battle. Direct-to-consumer sales offer the best chance for profitability — but how do you get there when marketing feels like another full time job? The Nest, a non-profit creative and marketing incubator for agroecological producers, is here to support the transition to a localised, agroecological food system. In this live session, marketing expert Rose Davis and producers from The Nest will share simple, strategic ways to market your business on a tight budget and limited time.

Join us to discover how marketing can become a powerful tool to support the success of your direct-to-consumer business, and to book a free 30-minute session during our 1:1 Storytelling Surgery.

ORFC2025 How to Sell Your Produce Directly to a Localised Market

Speakers: Catherine McAndrew, Valeria Ragni

Chair: Tara Wight

The Seasonal Worker Scheme governs the arrival of up to 47,000 migrant farm workers to the UK each year. As part of this scheme, workers are tied to their recruiter and must pay up front for visas and flights. These features are a major driver of debt bondage and forced labour. In this session, we will be joined by the Landworkers’ Alliance, the Worker Support Centre, and former farm workers to explore the harsh reality of working in the UK’s horticultural supply chains and to discuss how to hold the supermarkets profiting from this situation to account.

ORFC2025 Farmworker Struggles in Britain: Voices from the Frontline

Facilitators: Liba Ravindran, Loa Niumeitolu

This is a workshop for people to reconnect with the land. We begin with honouring the Indigenous people and land we are on. Everyone introduces themselves.  Participants share their stories about how their families and ancestors dealt with challenging and difficult systemic situations in their lives. Participants will share oral and written stories that illustrate actions of anti-oppression and justice that are rooted in their ancestral lines, whether genealogical, cultural or other forms that fought oppression and brought justice. This circle also employs somatic exercises to allow the participants to feel into the power of their ancestors and their experiences.

ORFC2025 Workshop Anti-Oppression Circle: Retracing the Footsteps of Our Ancestors

Hosted by Sustain, Emergent Generation, Soil Association and Roots to Work

This session aims to provide an informal, inclusive, and engaging networking opportunity for anyone who is passionate about — or curious about — the politics and practice of food and farming. The event is aimed at fostering intergenerational cohesion by welcoming those newer to the movement and those established in it. Come along to meet new people, share ideas and opportunities, and build new connections. Please note that this event is in the café on the second floor of the Cheng Building, you will need to take the lift or stairs up.

ORFC2025 WORKSHOP Intergenerational Learning And Campaigning On Genetic Modification

Oxford Real Farming Conference