Sixteen years ago, Ruth West, Colin Tudge, and a band of renegades founded the Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC) as a challenging alternative to the 90-year-old, more conventional Oxford Farming Conference, held 500m down the road during the same two days in January. The challenger has more poetry, music, and women, and fewer suits, gilets, and brogues; there is more discussion of ecology and…
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