OGI Conference 2024

Our 2024 OGI Conference  will take place on Tuesday, 26 November 2024 at Killruddery House, Bray, Co. Wicklow.

This year’s conference will feature keynote speakers:

Ben Raskin, Soil Association

John McCormick, Helen’s Bay Organic

More speakers and full schedule coming soon.

Speakers

Ben Raskin, Soil Association
Ben Raskin has worked in the commercial growing world for nearly 30 years and has a wide range of practical horticultural experience, starting his career growing vegetables for chefs, box schemes and farm shops. He now focuses mainly on integrating trees into farming systems.

He is Head of Agroforestry for the Soil Association and keeps his hand in on the field implementing a pioneering agroforestry system on a 1500 acre farm in Wiltshire. He also works as an independent advisor, trainer and author, writing books for children and grownups, including most recently “Silvohorticuture”, “The Woodchip Handbook” and “Plant a Tree – Retree the World”.

John McCormick, Helen’s Bay Organic

John McCormick established Helen’s Bay Organic Farm in 1991. Situated on 20 acres of fields adjacent to Belfast Lough in Helen’s Bay, Co. Down, it produces over 50 varieties of organic fruit and vegetables for delivery around Belfast and beyond, with a farm shop click & collect service.