The Living Soil by Lady Eve Balfour

Lady Eve Balfour

Lady Evelyn Barbara "Eve" Balfour was an English farmer, educator, organic farming pioneer, and a founding figure in the organic movement. She was one of the first women to study agriculture at an English university, graduating from the University of Reading.The daughter of the second Earl of...

 is considered a seminal classic in organic agriculture and the organic movement

Organic movement

The organic movement broadly refers to the organizations and individuals involved worldwide in the promotion of organic farming, which is a more sustainable mode of agriculture...

. The book is based on Balfour's agricultural and medical research, and the initial findings of the first three years of the Haughley Experiment

Haughley Experiment

The Haughley Experiment was the first scientific comparative study of organic farming and conventional chemical-based farming, started in 1939 by Lady Eve Balfour and Alice Debenham, on two adjoining farms in Haughley Green, Suffolk, England....

, the first scientific, side-by-side farm trial to compare organic and chemical-based farming.

The Living Soil was also published as The Living Soil and the Haughley Experiment.

Currently out of print

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, the full text is available online in the Agriculture Library at http://www.soilandhealth.org.