Dr Rebecca Bragg

Sustainability Researcher at Riverford Organic Farmers 👩‍🌾 PhD in Integrated Pest Management from Warwick Crop Centre 🫘🌱🪰

[Dr Rebecca Bragg @BeccaaBragg]

Join us at #ORFC25 to hear about the progress that is being made to remove peat from plant propagation at multiple scales in the food system 🌱

⭐️Mary Dimambro
⭐️Emma Restorick
⭐️Audrey Litterick
⭐️Francis Raynes
⭐️Sebastian Kipp

📍Court Room
🕘9am

@Riverford @IFarmers

[Dr Rebecca Bragg @BeccaaBragg]

Thrilled to be chairing IPM: Challenges, Opportunities & Synergies tomorrow at #ORFC25! 🐞🪰

Join me and a brilliant panel of experts:
🌟 Rosemary Collier
🌟 Tom Pope
🌟 Andy Dibben
📍 Council Chamber
⌚️ 4 PM, 9th Jan

@Warwickpestnews @ipm_tom @FarmShopOrganic @Riverford @ORFC

[CAWR Coventry @CoventryCAWR]

CAWR researchers working to phase-out peat in horticulture met with representatives of the Peat-free Partnership, to share details of our work. The partnership's a coalition of  horticultural businesses & environmental NGOs with the goal of ending the commercial trade in peat.

[Dr Rebecca Bragg @BeccaaBragg]

Our latest update on our collaborative project with @CoventryCAWR, @organicplantsuk & @cambridgeeco 🌱🌍🥬

@PFpartnership #endpeatsales #peatlands #peatfree

https://t.co/ZnOtpngGhc

[ORFC @ORFC]

We are thrilled to share the in-person and online programmes for 2025's Oxford Real Farming Conference!

Spread over 9 venues in the heart of Oxford and with over 400 speakers from the UK and around the world, 2025's conference is not one to miss: https://t.co/9XNumy8gtj

[Dr Rebecca Bragg @BeccaaBragg]

#OrganicSeptember open day at Shillingford Organics today 🥕tractor trailer rides, fresh veg & and guess the weight of the squash competition! 👨‍🌾
@SoilAssociation @shillorganics1

[Dr Rebecca Bragg @BeccaaBragg]

@OGAgrowers @Riverford @CoventryCAWR @cambridgeeco @innovateuk Apologies for the delay! It’s looking promising. We’ll be releasing a video to summarise our most recent findings later this Autumn 🍂

[Dr Rebecca Bragg @BeccaaBragg]

Today we started harvesting lettuce from Trial 2 of our collaborative project that aims to discover an effective peat-free blocking medium 🥬 @Riverford @CoventryCAWR @cambridgeeco & Delfland Nurseries

@innovateuk

#peatfree #peat

[Warwick Crop Centre @WarwickCrop]

Looking forward to taking part in this webinar tomorrow @WarwickLifeSci @wormscience @WarwickVeGIN

[Innovative Farmers @IFarmers]

🥬Francis Rayns, researcher on the #fieldlab testing the benefits of #striptill in #horticulture, checks in on the @Riverford trial plot.

The strip till crop is a little behind the ploughed, but the team is hopeful it'll catch up soon. Follow for updates: https://t.co/Ag6tKW2Yer

[Harriet Bell @blewinbell]

This bank holiday we're celebrating some of the first @Riverford #agroforestry hazelnuts coming through @orchardeggs So big thanks to everyone who helped fund some of the original trees through @Riverford's refer a friend scheme!

[Dr Rebecca Bragg @BeccaaBragg]

Excited to be working on this project with @CoventryCAWR, Delfland Nurseries, @cambridgeeco & @innovateuk 🥬

[Riverford @Riverford]

Our peat-free trials are ongoing - and this week, our test blocks went into the ground. We’ll report back on the results!

[Dr Rebecca Bragg @BeccaaBragg]

Day one at @Groundswellaguk ✅

We even managed to fit in a project meeting as part of our collaborative project that aims to find an alternative to peat in our growing systems 🧐🌱🥬

Find out more here ➡️ https://t.co/TJb2jVTPji

#peat @Riverford @CoventryCAWR @cambridgeeco

[Dr Rebecca Bragg @BeccaaBragg]

@tonks_aimee @HarperAdamsUni @Rabobank Congrats Aimee!

[Dr Rebecca Bragg @BeccaaBragg]

@GillPri @ipm_tom @wormscience @Warwickpestnews @WarwickCrop Thanks @GillPri so lovely to see you too!

[Dr Rebecca Bragg @BeccaaBragg]

Yesterday I passed my viva with minor corrections ☀️Thank you @ipm_tom & @wormscience for a great discussion on everything Bean Seed Fly 🪰Massive thanks to my supervisor @Warwickpestnews & everyone else at @WarwickCrop for being amazing colleagues along the way 🌟#phdone

[Dr Rebecca Bragg @BeccaaBragg]

@RSBWestMids Thank you! 🌱🪰🧑‍🌾

[Dr Rebecca Bragg @BeccaaBragg]

@elise_bor @ipm_tom @wormscience @Warwickpestnews @WarwickCrop Thank you Elise ❤️

[Dr Rebecca Bragg @BeccaaBragg]

@madhury_paul @ipm_tom @wormscience @Warwickpestnews @WarwickCrop Thank you Madhury! Not long and it will be time for your viva 🌸

[Dr Rebecca Bragg @BeccaaBragg]

@Lisa_King_ @ipm_tom @wormscience @Warwickpestnews @WarwickCrop Thanks lovely @Lisa_King_

[Dr Rebecca Bragg @BeccaaBragg]

@tonks_aimee @WarwickCrop @ipm_tom @wormscience Thanks @tonks_aimee 😁 hope all is good with you!