Green harvest [electronic resource] : a history of organic farming and gardening in Australia / Rebecca Jones.

ISBN:

9780643101074

9781283156790

Title:

Green harvest [electronic resource] : a history of organic farming and gardening in Australia / Rebecca Jones.

Author:

Jones, Rebecca, 1967-

Personal Author:

Jones, Rebecca, 1967-

Publication Information:

Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub., 2010.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 186 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Contents:

cover; Acknowledgements; Soil; Case Study 1: Harold White; Chemical free; Case Study 2: Ray and Elma Mason; Ecological wellbeing; Case Study 3: Anthony Sheldon; Colour plates; Back to the Land; Case Study 4: Jackie French; Australian organic farming and gardening in the 2000s.

Local Note:

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Subject Term:

Organic gardening -- Australia -- History.

Organic farming -- Australia -- History.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2010

Publication Information:

Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub., 2010.

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Summary

Green Harvest explores the ideas and practices that have shaped organic farming and gardening in Australia from the interwar years to the present day. It reveals that Australian organic farming and gardening societies were amongst the first in the world, being active as early as the 1940s.

In what way does human health depend upon the natural environment? Green Harvest traces this idea through four themes of Australian organic farming and gardening - soil, chemical free, ecological well-being and back to the land - each illustrated with a case study profiling an Australian organic farmer or gardener.

Personalities in Australian organic gardening, such as Jackie French and Peter Bennett, talk about organic growing. The book also features extracts from early organic magazines and interviews with current organic growers, including banana and macadamia farmers, managers of outback sheep stations, dairy farmers and self-sufficiency gardeners. All of these tell the story of Australian organic farming and gardening: past, present and future.