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ORGANIC AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE COLLECTION
WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: ORGANIC AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE COLLECTION Link to the Collection In 2012, with the support of the Ceres Trust, the Wisconsin Historical Society Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Collection was established to document other organic and sustainable farming pioneers, many of whom either began farming or embarked on careers supporting this approach to farming…
Read MoreVideo: Interview Of Roger Blobaum On Organic History
An interview with Ron Kroese, Senior Fellow in the Endowed Chair in Agricultural Systems at the University of Minnesota.
Read MoreOrganic and Sustainable Agriculture History Research Grants
Organic and Sustainable Agriculture History Research Grants This research grant, supported by the Wisconsin Historical Society located on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, provides access to the resources of the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Archives and other UW campus libraries and supports research and writing on the history of the modern organic and sustainable agriculture movement…
Read MoreVideo: Origins and Evolution of the Organic Movement
PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 PART 4
Read MoreFood Sleuth Radio Interview
RADIO INTERVIEW: Earth Day, DDT and Organic History, Roger Blobaum, April 2010
Radio Interview – Guest Roger Blobaum, Earth Day, DDT and Organic Historian, by Melinda Hemmelgarn of Food Sleuth Radio
Read MoreSelected Organic History Milestones
1911 F.H. King, former chief of USDA’ s Division of Soil Management, wrote Farmers of Forty Centuries, a classic that described how people in China farmed the same fields for 4,000 years without destroying their fertility. 1940 The first use of the term “organic farming” was in Look to the Land, the book by Lord…
Read More1974-1976 Photos · China Agriculture Pre-Industrialization
Latest post on the Organic History website!
Read MoreInternational Accreditation Progamme Brochure
Informational Brochure on the IFOAM International Organic Accreditation Programme from June 2004
Read MoreInternational Organic Accreditation Service
The 2004 annual report of the International Organic Accreditation Service, a non-profit, independent organization providing international oversight of organic certification.
Read MoreNational Campaign For Sustainable Agriculture – Organic Committee
How We All Work Together
Fourth Draft 5/21/03 See clarifying notes in green at bottom of document What Unites Us: Over the past decade, the five regional Sustainable Agriculture Working Groups (SAWGs), the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, and the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture have been working together for a food and agricultural system that is: Economically profitable Environmentally sound Based on family…
Read MoreIdentifying The Unsung Heros
September 9, 2002 Memorandum To: George Siemon From: Roger Blobaum Re: D.C. Organic Supporters Since late 1989, organic supporters in D.C. organized themselves first in a series of working groups and then, beginning with the first rule proposal eight years later, joined the larger effort coordinated by the National Campaign…
Read MoreOrganic Watch Press Release: April 30, 1998
For Immediate Release: April 30, 1998 Contact: Roger Blobaum 202/537-0191 Melanie Adcock 301/258-3111 Joseph Mendelson 202/547-9359 (Washington, DC). An Organic Watch independent review of over 93,000 of the first 130,000 comments received by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on its proposed National Organic Food rules shows that the rule has been overwhelmingly…
Read MoreOrganic Watch’s 16 Issues of Major Concern
Introduction. The following material was created as an aid to organizations and individuals who are preparing comments concerning the United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”), Agricultural Marketing Service’s, “National Organic Program; Proposed Rule” found at 62 Federal Register 65850 (December 16, 1997). Organic Watch encourages duplication and wide distribution of this material and no prior…
Read MoreOrganic Watch Press Release: December 12, 1997
For Immediate Release: December 12, 1997 THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE TO RELEASE PROPOSED NATIONAL ORGANIC FOODS STANDARDS ON DECEMBER 16 “ORGANIC WATCH,” A BROAD COALITION REPRESENTING MILLIONS OF AMERICANS, IS FORMED TO PROVIDE PUBLIC INTEREST ASSESSMENT AND OVERSIGHT OF PROPOSED STANDARDS “ORGANIC WATCH” ACTIVITIES TO INCLUDE UNPRECEDENTED NATIONWIDE OUTREACH…
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We Support the Campaign For Sustainable Agriculture
The undersigned organizations support The Campaign For Sustainable Agriculture, a national network working to support family farms, protect the environment, and foster a sustainable food and agricultural system. The Campaign includes grassroots and national organizations representing family farmers, environmentalists, consumers, farmworkers, rural advocates, people of faith, animal protection advocates, agricultural scientists and educators, and other…
Read MoreNational Dialogue Committee on Sustainable Agriculture
Sunrise Ranch, Loveland, Colorado Participants:
Read MoreOrganic Production Act Debate August 1, 1990
ATTACHMENT D This is the House debate on the DeFazio amendment. Congressman DeFazio lead the battle to include the Organic Foods Production Act in the House farm bill. Congressman Stenholm lead the opposition against inclusion of this amendment in favor of his organic study amendment. H6622 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD —…
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