
	Where results make sense

Topic: Lady Eve Balfour

Related Topics

Evelyn Barbara Balfour

Sir Albert Howard

Haughley Green

The Living Soil

Organic farming

Haughley Experiment

Green Revolution

Rudolf Steiner

Litchfield, Nebraska

Cameron, Missouri

Color Graphics Adapter

Yeung Sum

Ghatanothoa

Air India Flight 855

Guy Philippe

In the News (Mon 21 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Towards a Sustainable Agriculture - The Living Soil - Eve Balfour
		This classic text on the organic movement is an address given by the late Lady Eve Balfour, author of the organics classic "The Living Soil and the Haughley Experiment", to an IFOAM (International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements) conference in Switzerland in 1977.
		Eve Balfour was a key figure in the forming of the organic gardening and farming movement, and one of the founders of Britain's Soil Association.
		She practised what she preached, and reaped the benefits -- Lady Eve died in her 90s, healthy and alert to the end.
	www.agrenv.mcgill.ca /agrecon/ecoagr/misc/balfour.htm (4235 words)

	Organica News -- News and Features: The Organic Farming Movement: Trailblazers, Heroes and Pioneers
		Lady Eve Balfour distinguished herself by her ability to communicate and demystify science, bringing it back to earth and into the hands of ordinary people.
		Balfour studied agriculture at the University of Reading and began farming in Suffolk in 1915.
		Out of the meeting convened to discuss her work in 1946 was formed the Soil Association in Britain, and Lady Balfour continued her pivotal comparative studies between organic and conventional farming on her own farm.
	www.organicanews.com /news/article.cfm?story_id=170 (2802 words)

	Soil Association
		Lady Eve spent 1939 discussing with her friend and neighbour the findings of these authors and the two agreed the need to establish a long-term scientific experiment.
		Lady Eve and her sister agreed to transfer New Bells Farm to the Association by Deed of Gift.
		Lady Eve became the Organizing Secretary and Headquarters was moved from London to Haughley, where temporary buildings had been erected.
	homepages.tesco.net /~Haughley/soilass.htm (1312 words)

	Organic Gardener's Composting Part 60
		Balfour, Lady Eve B. _The Living Soil._ London: Faber and Faber, 1943.
		Lady Balfour was one of the key figures in creating the organic gardening and farming movement.
		Lady Balfour proved Woody Allen right about eating organic brown rice; she died only recently in her late 90s, compus mentis to the end.
	www.theveggielady.com /organic_composting_60.php (2789 words)

	Resurgence 195 - Two Women of the Soil by Sophie Poklewski Koziell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		LADY EVE knew from a very early age that she wanted to put her energies into farming.
		Lady Eve brought together many diverse strands of research that pointed to the importance of a healthy soil.
		Encouraged by these events, Eve Balfour carried on her work by undertaking the enormous task of conducting the first comparative study of organic and conventional farming on her own farm (the Haughley experiment).
	www.resurgence.org /resurgence/issues/koziell195.htm (1920 words)

	[No title]
		Lady Eve Balfour's ideas inspired the formation of the Soil Association in England with other farmers, scientists and nutritionists.
		Eve Balfour was one of the first women to graduate at the University of Reading to with a degree in agriculture.
		Eve funded the study with the proceeds of her magazine Mother Earth.
	organic.com.au /people/EveBalfour (175 words)

	The Prince of Wales - A speech by HRH The Prince of Wales on the 50th anniversary of The Soil Association, The 1996 ...
		I was delighted to be asked to give this year's lecture in memory of Lady Eve Balfour, in the 50th anniversary year of the Soil Association which she helped to found.
		Lady Eve was a working farmer in Suffolk, and her intention was clear.
		Based on her researches, Lady Eve penned the immortal line: 'the health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible'.
	www.princeofwales.gov.uk /speechesandarticles/a_speech_by_hrh_the_prince_of_wales_on_the_50th_anniversary__140971213.html (6047 words)

	Green ISP - organic food and farming
		Lady Eve Balfour was a leading pioneer of organic farming.
		Lady Eve was its first president, and carried on encouraging organic methods until she was 100, in 1988.
		Her Suffolk farm became a centre of research into organic farming methods, the role now carried on at Elm Farm Research Centre, www.efrc.com.
	www.greenisp.org.uk /oganics.htm (640 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 Woman's Hour - Timeline:Lady Eve Balfour
		Eve Balfour was the niece of the Conservative prime minister, Lord Balfour.
		She decided she wanted to be a farmer when she was twelve and was one of the first women to take a degree in agriculture.
		By the age of twenty, Eve Balfour was running a small farm in Monmouthshire and looking after a team of Land Girls.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/womanshour/timeline/eve_balfour.shtml (188 words)

	About Organic
		Lady Eve Balfour distinguished herself by her ability to communicate and demystify science, bringing it back to earth and into the hands of ordinary people.
		Balfour studied agriculture at the University of Reading and began farming in Suffolk in 1915.
		Out of the meeting convened to discuss her work in 1946 was formed the Soil Association in Britain, and Lady Balfour continued her pivotal comparative studies between organic and conventional farming on her own farm.
	www.southcoastfarms.com /about_oganic.htm (3257 words)

	Lady Eve Balfour's quote on the health of the nation \| Information library \| Local Food Works
		Lady Eve Balfour's quote on the health of the nation
		Lady Eve Balfour's quote on the health of the nation
		Lady Eve Balfour was the founder of the Soil Association
	www.localfoodworks.org /Web/SA/SAWeb.nsf/b663df7c7f96694580256bd8003b9129/ce560539a2906ac880256c3700350731!OpenDocument (246 words)

	Hillsdale Collegian- Michigan's Oldest College Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Increased fertilization and use of hormonal injection went relatively unnoticed until 1940, when Lady Eve Balfour began studying organic methods pertaining to crop rotation and livestock raising.
		The Centre's goal, as that of other higher institutions of organic education, is to stem the tide of pesticide and hormonal use on all foods, and to educate the masses as to why many forms of farm management are insufficient and harmful ways to feed the world.
		As Lady Balfour would eventually notice, the modern methods of famers were slowly erroding nature's ability to reproduce itself.
	www.hillsdale.edu /collegian/127/127_17/arts/organic.htm (770 words)

	Nutrition and organic gardening for optimal health
		Lady Eve Balfour, for example, wrote "My subject is food, which concerns everyone; it is the soil, which concerns everyone - even if they do not realise it - and it is the history of certain recent scientific research linking these three vital subjects."
		Throughout her life, Eve Balfour was bursting to tell all those who would listen, and those who wouldn't, what she and other organic pioneers had realised - "that health, whether of soil, plant, animal or man, is one and indivisible.This concept of health is truly revolutionary.
		Most people who have read the later editions will not know that the book was originally subtitled "evidence of the importance to human health of soil vitality, with special reference to post-war planning".A good deal of it is, unfortunately, still relevant today and worthy of attention.
	www.adhdezine.com /Woodward.html (1728 words)

	The Rake: Features : Can Organics Save the Family Farm?
		Almost thirty years ago, Lady Eve Balfour, one of the most knowledgeable organic pioneers from the 1930s, said, “I am sure that the techniques of organic farming cannot be imprisoned in a rigid set of rules.
		Without a positive and ecological approach, it is not possible to farm organically.” When I heard Lady Eve make that statement at an international conference on organic farming at Sissach, Switzerland, in 1977, the co-option and redefinition of “organic” by the USDA was far in the future.
		I knew very well what she meant, though, because by that time I had been involved in organics long enough to have absorbed the old-time ideas and I was alert to the changes that were beginning to appear.
	www.rakemag.com /stories/printable.aspx?itemID=4786&catID=146&SelectCatID=146 (3243 words)

	Lectures 2001
		Lady Eve Balfour, Sir Stafford Cripps and Oswald Mosley, in particular, campaigned against such practices.
		Dustbowls in the U.S., India, Australia, South Africa, etc. prompted concern by some for the condition of the soil, as well as preservation of rural customs, crafts and markets, against general skepticism.
		In 1946 Lady Balfour wrote The Living Soil and founded the Soil Association.
	www.brlsi.org /proceed02/waffairs017.htm (609 words)

	syngenta cuts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But agriculture based on these principles results in a more costly product, mainly because of lower yields and inefficient use of land.
		Organic agriculture developed from the philosophical views of Rudolf Steiner and later Lady Eve Balfour, who in the 1940s founded the Soil Association.
		In the United Kingdom this association licenses about 70% of organic production and sends inspectors to check that its regulations are being followed.
	www.checkbiotech.org /blocks/dsp_document.cfm?doc_id=567 (1793 words)

	howard's way - agricultural consultant Sir Albert Howard Ecologist, The - Find Articles
		Howard was an agricultural thinker of huge stature and his ideas were so powerful that they had, and still have, the capacity to change the future of farming.
		Although Howard's work is not widely discussed today, he was probably the single most important influence which led Lady Eve Balfour to establish the Soil Association in 1946.
		Howard was an agricultural researcher of some eminence who had already developed a fairly wide sphere of expertise when he was sent by the British Government to India in 1905 to establish a research base to develop improved crop husbandry at Pusa in Bengal.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2465/is_5_31/ai_76285453 (751 words)

	Farming for Self-Sufficiency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The best I have ever seen was the hennery of Lady Eve Balfour, the founder of the Soil Association.
		Lady Eve claimed that each hen made, with this litter, a ton of manure a year to go on her garden.
		Lady Eve used to let the hens into one of these two pens every day for a fortnight.
	www.motherearthnews.com /top_articles/1974_November_December/Farming_for_Self_Sufficiency (5622 words)

	One/Change » Blog Archive » History of Organic Farming
		Scientific studies were being conducted, such as the one by Lady Eve Balfour in 1939, comparing organic farming and industrial farming.
		(Lady Eve Balfour, the first person to embark on such a scientific study, would later publish her findings from the Haughley Experiment in her book titled, The Living Soil.)
		For the next couple of decades organic farming would fall into the background as it lacked influence and support.
	one-change.com /blog/2006/07/history-of-organic-farming (969 words)

	60 years of the Soil Association Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
		But our interests and activities have always extended further than that, covering a wide spectrum of public concerns about factory farming, the impact of pesticides on our environment and health, Fairtrade and development issues and the promotion of local food and seasonally, as well as supporting rural culture and employment in the UK.
		The ideas set out by Lady Eve Balfour in TheLivingSoil provided the inspiration for the foundation of the organisation in 1946.
		With the benefit of hindsight, those ideas and their manifestation through practical organic farming encapsulate what is now called "sustainability".
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060902/ai_n16711439 (825 words)

	UK NEWS
		He cited a report in the New Scientist which said that the so-called green revolution in South Asia had produced intensively grown crops so deficient in zinc and iron that "an IQ loss of ten points has been observed in a whole generation of children".
		The Prince was delivering the 1997 Lady Eve Balfour Memorial Lecture at the Banqueting Hall in London.
		Lady Eve was a founder of the Soil Association.
	www.cyber-dyne.com /~tom/news920.html (5272 words)

	Foot and Mouth Epidemic By Bernard Jarman
		In his own words, "This long experience of foot and mouth suggests that an important factor in the prevention of animal disease is food from humus filled soil."
		Lady Eve Balfour in her book The living Soil confirms this in a reference to an observation made to her by the government veterinary department in the early 1950’s, that outbreaks mapped across Europe indicated that the disease did not spread into areas still being traditionally farmed.
		In the Agriculture Course, Rudolf Steiner states." The cow has horns in order to send into itself the astral-ethereal formative powers, which, pressing inward, are meant to penetrate right into the digestive organism.
	whale.to /m/fm95.html (1111 words)

	Clearance Form (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Australian libraries are allowed to provide clients with electronic copies of copyrighted materials for purposes of study only when it has been first determined that these materials are out of print and cannot be obtained through the usual channels of retail trade.
		This is the case with 9,600 Miles Through The U.S.A. in a Station Wagon by Lady Eve Balfour.
		I declare that I require the reproduction for the purpose of research and study and I will not use it for any other purpose, and I have not previously been supplied with a reproduction of the same material by an authorized officer of the library.
	www.soilandhealth.org /copyform.asp?bookcode=010161 (397 words)

	Liquid and Foliar Feeds
		Using enriched water to boost plant growth is a long established practice but this apparently simple task has pitfalls for the unwary even the right choice of container has its importance.
		In 'The Living Soil' Lady Eve Balfour cites the occasion where after years of useful service a galvanised tank rusted through (electrolysis) and was replaced with a wooden barrel.
		This was situated as before inside the large greenhouse at the nursery so that the water would warm to the house temperature before use.
	www.organicgarden.org.uk /growing/grow/liquid.htm (670 words)

	TRAILBLAZERS, HEROES & PIONEERS -- The Organic Farming Movement
		Lady Eve Balfour distinguished herself by her ability to communicate and
		According to Balfour, "It was set up to fill the gap in the evidence on which
		Balfour's research was published by her in 1943, in her
	www.wildnesswithin.com /kupfer.html (2607 words)

	The Importance of Minerals to Health
		What few minerals survive the above processes are often removed from the plate, not least through our practice of chopping and boiling food and discarding the water.
		Three of the great nutritional pioneers of this century, Lady Eve Balfour, founder of the British Soil Association; the American dentist and researcher Weston Price,1 and British medical research doctor Sir Robert McCarrison2,3 all spoke at length about the importance of minerals, in soils and the food chain.
		His somewhat combative approach may not suit everyone, but he can be seen as coming directly from the stables of Balfour, McCarrison and Weston Price.
	www.becomehealthynow.com /article/productshair/137 (2269 words)

	The Conservation Society: Harbinger of the 1970s Environment Movement in the UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was founded in 1966 in response to the then widely perceived global threat of over-population.
		It was an uneasy coalition between political radicals wanting wider public access to birth control and traditional conservationists, like Lady Eve Balfour of the Soil Association.
		By the early 1970s, under the Directorship of John Davoll, it moved away from population concerns to articulate an 'environmental' message based on an integrated view of population, resources and technology (strongly influenced by Paul Ehrlich).
	www.erica.demon.co.uk /EH/EH715.html (233 words)

	Urban myths of organic farming
		But agriculture based on these principles results in a more costly product, mainly because of lower yields and inefficient use of land.
		Organic agriculture developed from the philosophical views of Rudolf Steiner and later Lady Eve Balfour, who in the 1940s founded the Soil Association.
		In the United Kingdom this association licenses about 70% of organic production and sends inspectors to check that its regulations are being followed.
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /~anthro/food/TrewavasMyths.html (1345 words)

	Science & Environmental Health Network - The Networker: A Brief History of Sustainable Agriculture: Mar 04
		Lord Northburne (Look to the Land, 1940) first used the term "organic" to describe the farm as an "organism" in which the parts of the farm are orchestrated into a functioning whole - a kind of farming that stands in stark contrast to an industrial farm that relies on input-output mechanisms.
		Other works influencing the organic movement included the writings of Liberty Hyde Baily, Dean of Cornell University's College of Agriculture, especially The Holy Earth (1915); Lady Eve Balfour's The Living Soil (1943); and Louis Bromfeld's Pleasant Valley (1946).
		Industrial agriculture took another quantum leap forward in the "green revolution" of the1960s.
	www.sehn.org /Volume_9-2.html (3078 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)