?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Forgprints.org%2Fid%2Feprint%2F16971%2F&rft.title=Henry+Shoobridge%2C+Tasmania's+Pioneer+of+Organic+Farming&rft.creator=Paull%2C+John&rft.subject=History+of+organics&rft.subject=+Education%2C+extension+and+communication&rft.subject=Australia&rft.description=Henry+Shoobridge+(1874-1963)+was+the+pioneer+of+organic+farming+in+Tasmania.+He+was+the+founder+and+the+president+of+the+island%E2%80%99s+earliest+organics+advocacy+group%2C+the+Living+Soil+Association+of+Tasmania+(1946-+1960).+The+Shoobridge+family+had+emigrated+from+Kent%2C+England+in+1822+bringing+with+them+the+hops+cuttings+with+which+they+established+hops+as+a+successful+primary+industry+in+Tasmania.+Henry+Shoobridge+was+schooled+at+The+Friend%E2%80%99s+School%2C+the+Quaker+school+in+Hobart.+The+Shoobridges+pioneered+the+farming+of+hops+in+Tasmania%2C+and+Henry+followed+his+forebears+in+this+work.+At+the+age+of+71+years%2C+Henry+Shoobridge+founded+the+Living+Soil+Association+of+Tasmania+(LSAT)+at+a+public+meeting+in+Hobart+on+30+August+1946.+The+LSAT+affiliated+with+the+Australian+Organic+Farming+and+Gardening+Society+(AOFGS)+which+was+founded+in+Sydney+in+October+1944%2C+and+with+the+UK%E2%80%99s+Soil+Association+which+was+founded+in+England+in+May+1946.&rft.publisher=Bio-Dynamics+Tasmania&rft.date=2010-03&rft.type=Journal+paper&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.language=en&rft.rights=cc_by&rft.identifier=%2Fid%2Feprint%2F16971%2F1%2F16971.pdf&rft.identifier=+++Paull%2C+John+++(2010)+Henry+Shoobridge%2C+Tasmania's+Pioneer+of+Organic+Farming.+++Journal+of+Bio-Dynamics+Tasmania+(97)%2C+pp.+4-10.++++++++