OGI Annual Conference
OGI Conference 2026
9am-4pm | Registration from 8.15am
OGI Members €35 | Non-members €55
Join us at the Woodlands House Hotel, Adare, Co. Limerick on Tuesday 24th November, for OGI Annual Conference 2026.
We’re busy pulling together a programme that brings in some exciting new voices, including Jo Facer of Laurelbank Farm in Northern Ireland, and Jayne Arnold of Oxton Organics in England. We’ll also have discussion panels and some familiar features that you’ll be glad to see back. We’ll be sharing the full speaker line-up in the coming weeks, so watch this space. Tickets are available now from NOTS.
SPEAKERS & PANELLISTS
Jo Facer, Laurelbank Farm
Jo worked for many years in construction in her home city of London before moving to Northern Ireland to establish Laurelbank Farm, a 7-acre organic smallholding. Laurelbank’s vision is to reconnect people with the land and to nourish and empower communities through farming and feasting.
At its heart is a thriving CSA scheme, and alongside her work on the farm, Jo is an author, teacher, willow weaver, and brewer. In 2023 she co-authored The Edible Flower: A Modern Guide to Growing, Cooking, and Eating Edible Flowers and in 2026 she joined the CSA Network UK Board.
She also founded and runs the Growing Academy, a 30-week organic fruit and vegetable growing course based at Laurelbank.
www.laurelbankfarm.org
Jayne Arnold, Oxton Organics
Jayne is the co-founder and Head Grower of Oxton Organics, a 5-hectare farm in the south Midlands near Worcestershire, UK, founded in 1986. Jayne grows a diverse array of vegetables and top fruit, runs a local box scheme, and has a small flock of sheep.
She is passionate about improving soil health and experiments with seed saving, bio-stimulants, undersowing, and more recently the Flächenrotte (surface decomposition) method to create maximum soil fertility and nutritional density in the food grown in it.
Oxton Organic’s ethos has always been to encourage diversity above and below ground – the farming practices needed now more than ever.
www.oxtonorganics.co.uk
→You can listen to Jayne on this 2024 podcast from the Organic Growers Alliance.
More speakers and panellists coming soon…
TOOLS & TECH PANEL
Back for another year! Join some of Ireland’s leading organic growers as they reveal their favourite technology and tools, and how they have boosted their efficiency as a grower. More info coming soon.
