The Organic Growers Gathering 2025

Welcome to The Organic Growers Gathering 2025!

Join for a weekend filled with learning, networking, and fun in the progressive community of the Hardwick Estate.

This event is for anyone passionate about organic horticulture and sustainable practices. Connect with fellow growers, attend workshops, and discover the most exciting and practical innovations in organic horticulture. Whether you're a seasoned farmer or just starting out, this gathering is sure to inspire and educate, with plenty of time for networking and celebrating too. Don't miss out on this opportunity to grow your knowledge and community. See you there!

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Collectively, we are building a resilient food and farming network. As we work on our farms and the land, we must have moments where we can connect and share our knowledge. As big corps circle around us, in both weather and political extremes, we use the power found in peer to peer knowledge exchange as we strengthen our love of soil and nature. We root for each other, to watch each other grow.

The OGG is growing alliances between organic farming networks, platforming growers voices for a more resilient community farming future, as part of a ripening food and land justice movement.

To create a viable future, we invite the young ones into our growing event, as they will be our future farmers. Sowing seeds whilst they are young. Find the ‘Young Growers Plot’ where there will be practical, fun and inspirational landy workshops. We encourage thinking about the next generation becoming knowledgable at healthy land-based activities.

As members of Hardwick, where organic agriculture has been a focus and nurtured, the farmers, growers, businesses, projects, crafters and residents here will welcome you onto this land we share. The gathering will continue to have tours hosted by Tolhurst Organic CIC, one of the longest running organic farms in the UK renowned for pioneering, ethical stock free organic standards. Set in the beautiful South Oxfordshire countryside.

OGG Partners

🥬 The Organic Growers Alliance
🥬 Sheepdrove Trust

OGG Sponsors
🥬 ReAg Tools
🥬 Ooooby
🥬 CSA Network
🥬 Soil Association

🥬 Real Seeds
🥬 Real Farming Trust
🥬 Biodynamic Agricultural College

Supporters
🥬 Permaculture Magazine

🥬 Biodynamic UK Association
🥬 Hodmedods
🥬 Unicorn Grocery Co-op
🥬 Suma Co-op
🥬 Landworkers' Alliance

Hosts

🥬 Tolhurst Organic

🥬 Hardwick

🥬 Joining us for the botanical bar Old Tree Brewery
🥬 Delicious meals with Two Trees Catering

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🎫 Bursary Tickets are available

Bursary Tickets are for those who are:

⋆ in agriculture part-time, not on a full wage

⋆ an entrant grower that earns significantly lower than the UK minimum wage

⋆ currently in an apprenticeship/internship on the land

⋆ in full-time agricultural education

⋆ LGBTQIA+, BIPOC and mothers

🍄 Call out for Contributions to the Programme!

Lets platform the voices from the fields to share our practical skills and knowledge gained from direct experience. Send your proposals for workshops, talks & entertainment.

In particular calling for landy artists, natural decor artists, performers and musicans who grow, please do apply!!

Apply HERE!

🥕 Apply to be a Land Steward!

Please fill in the form questions, as best you can. Applications will be prioritising new entrants and those working in growing on low income. We work part-time so we will get back to you as soon as we can.
Any questions, email: [email protected]

Apply HERE!

🥔 Partner/Sponsor the OGG!

The Partners and Sponsor's who have come on this journey with us for the last two years have enabled this important UK organic event to thrive and for bursary tickets to be offered. THANK YOU!

Join as an OGG Partner, Sponsor or Small Business Sponsor.

Get in contact to find out more...

Email: [email protected]

THE DETAILS...

ADDRESS

Hardwick Estate, Path Hill Farm, Path Hill, Goring Heath, Reading, Oxfordshire, RG8 7RE

Follow the signs as you arrive.

OPENING TIMES

You can arrive from 5pm Thursday 21st August 2025 with access to the parking & camping fields only and not the main event (ensure you have food with you as the main caterers will not be open yet, some facilities will be open such as drinking water stations and toilets).

The ticket entrance and access to all areas opens at 9am Friday 22nd August 2025. Breakfast and the cafe will be open from then too!

NOURISHMENT

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner can be purchased from the on-site kitchen throughout the event by Two Trees Catering, returning for a 3rd year!

Also as tradition Old Tree Brewery are back with us, you've been fabulously supporting the botanical bar so far and they love your support too!

All using as much local, fresh and organic on farm produce as possible ofcourse.

CAMPING & VEHICLES

Camping is included in the ticket price. In the camping field, you are welcome to cook your own food on stoves, though not with open fires.

Live-in vehicles will be next to camping, you will be guided to a place to park.

There will be wheelbarrows available to help you take your things from the parking area.

Pre-purchase of Live-in and Vehicles Passes helps us understand how much space to create. You will need a VEHICLE PASS on arrival (please put this in a visable place say your front window dash board in your vehicles).

We are hoping that y'all will try to car share to reduce emissions and parking spaces in our fields. Help a fellow grower get here: LIFT SHARE & TRAIN PICKUP BOOKINGS

TRAIN

Arriving via train with a scheduled pickup time, bike or walking is possible!

The closest train station is Pangbourne Train Station, Pangbourne, Reading RG8 7DY, which is a 10-minute train from Reading Train Station, Station Rd, Reading RG1 1LZ that has alot more connections. The cycle is 15-minutes, the walk is 40-minutes.

Let us know if you're coming by train and would like to book a picked up: LIFT SHARE & TRAIN PICKUP BOOKINGS

There is a Reading Coach Station, Three Mile Cross, Reading RG7 1JL, please check bus connections from this coach station to Reading Train Station in advance as this is a little out of town.

ACCESS NEEDS

There are a few places for Access Needs Parking, or if you need to share anything with us to make your visit more comfortable, please do get to contact with us. Do bear in mind this event is located on a farm with uneven ground and unlevel paths.

WHAT TO BRING?

➣ CASH as the card readers in the fields can be temperamental. There will not be a cash point at the event.

➣ TOOLS to sharpen and show.

➣ SEEDS to bring to the seed swap and more

➣SOIL to sample and test under the microscope

➣ YOUR IDEAS for the Breakout Space, bring your experiments, your farm hack machinery and more to share your learnings with others.

➣ STUFF like t-shirts and items to screen print.

➣ A MUG! Let's avoid using disposable cups, cause they ain't so environmental, really.

➣ PLATE & CUTLERY could be useful at times.

➣ GOOD BOOTS are essential as there will be uneven ground. Check the weather before you get here, maybe you even need wellies and waterproofs, who knows!

➣ SUN PROTECTION so things like sun hats, thin shirts and extra tarps for tent shade cover.

➣ WARM CLOTHES for nighttime, even though the days get hot it can get cold at night, even bring an extra blanket and ground cover sheets for your tents.

➣ HEAD TORCH as not all the paths will be lit up, and bring your other good trusty outdoors gear.

➣ SWIMSUIT for the outdoors showers or if you're up for a dip in the river just down the path!

➣ CAMPING bring the gear that will keep you cool, warm and dry; tents, sleeping bags, ground sheets, as well as tarps for creating shade.

BREAKOUT SPACE

This year we will have a dedicated tent to facilitate a 'Breakout Space'.

So have a think about what you would like to bring with you, write your suggestions on a postcard and submit them in the box when you arrive.

It can be a topic, a problem you are wrestling with, or if you just think more people ought to appreciate your latest invention. Maybe a discussion should be had at the gathering and this would be the place to get this shared.

NO DOGS/PETS

We kindly ask you not to bring dogs or other animals to the event. This is hard for us to ask of you, however it's going to be a busy place, with food and children to also think of, as well as live-stock closeby and crops to care for. Thank you for your understanding. There might be a few dogs about that live on the estate as this is their home.

REFUND POLICY

We can allocate a certain amount of refunds. Refunds are available 30 days before the event. After that, we can only agree refunds if our budget can afford it, on a case by case basis, as we will have already invested in your arrival at the event. We cannot issue last minute refunds due to extreme weather.

For more info head over to: www.organicgrowersgathering.org