When I do oral history interviews with people, I always ask off the recording if they have any questions for me. And what they usually...

Oral histories are important primary source documents to help preserve the history of organic farming. But they’re long and most...

When I tell people that I’m collecting oral histories from people involved in organic and sustainable agriculture, I get an almost...

When organic farming came to the United States, it came in books. As far as I am aware, none of the early British organic leaders made it...

Ever since people began collecting oral histories in the 1970s, they have tried whenever possible to record them in-person. Legends...

Where did organic farmers go on vacation in the 1960s? To other organic farms! Beginning in 1955, Rodale Press began publishing an annual...

Archival research is the gold standard in the historical profession. Sure, you can do good historical research using published primary...

Most historians credit the British plant scientist Sir Albert Howard with first developing the system that we now call organic farming....

What is it like to do an oral history? It’s as easy as telling a story—your story. That’s what an oral history is: a chance for you to...

“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...

I had never seen so many books in one place in my life. It wasn’t my first time in The Ohio State University’s Thompson Library, but I...

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...