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History of Organic Farming in America
By Anneliese Abbott
Organic History
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Organic Camping: Vacationing on Organic Farms in the 1960s
Where did organic farmers go on vacation in the 1960s? To other organic farms! Beginning in 1955, Rodale Press began publishing an annual...

Anneliese Abbott
Aug 3, 20233 min read


What Does "Organic" Mean?
Most historians credit the British plant scientist Sir Albert Howard with first developing the system that we now call organic farming....

Anneliese Abbott
Jul 20, 20232 min read


Didn't all agriculture used to be organic?
“But didn’t all agriculture used to be organic?” That’s the number one question that I get when I tell people that I am doing research on...

Anneliese Abbott
Jul 8, 20232 min read


Welcome to the History of Organic Farming website!
Welcome to the first-ever blog post on my new History of Organic Farming in America website! I’ve been researching the history of organic...

Anneliese Abbott
Jul 5, 20232 min read
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