creators_name: Paull, John
editors_name: Le Lievre, Rodney
type: journalp
datestamp: 2006-12-15
lastmod: 2009-08-20 14:35:11
metadata_visibility: show
title: The Farm as Organism: The Foundational Idea of Organic Agriculture
ispublished: pub
subjects: 1organics
subjects: history
full_text_status: public
keywords: Northbourne, Steiner, origin, father of organic agriculture, chemical farming, precautionary principle, localism, wildness
abstract: The term 'organic farming' was coined by Lord Northbourne in his canonical work "Look to the Land", published in London (1940). Northbourne introduced the concept of the farm as organism, contrasted organic with chemical farming, and introduced many of the concepts that continue to preoccupy discussions and practice of organic agriculture.
date: 2006-12
date_type: published
publication: Elementals: Journal of Bio-Dynamics Tasmania
number: 80
publisher: Bio-Dynamics Tasmania Inc
pagerange: 14-18
refereed: yes
citation: Paull, John (2006) The Farm as Organism: The Foundational Idea of Organic Agriculture. Elementals: Journal of Bio-Dynamics Tasmania (80), pp. 14-18.
document_url: http://orgprints.org/10138/1/10138.pdf