Jerome Irving Rodale (1898 to 1971) was a publisher, editor and author who founded Rodale, Inc. in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, and the Rodale Institute, originally the Soil Health Foundation. An early advocate of sustainable agriculture and organic farming in the United States, he popularized the term organic for growing food without pesticides through magazines and books published under his own imprint.
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Defining ContributionFounded Rodale Press and the Rodale Institute and popularized the term organic for food grown without pesticides, helping launch the American organic farming movement. 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. J. I. Rodale (Wikipedia)
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Jerome Irving Rodale (; né Cohen; August 16, 1898, June 8, 1971) was a publisher, editor, and author who founded Rodale, Inc. in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, and The Rodale Institute, formerly the Soil Health Foundation.
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Rodale was born in Manhattan, New York City, on August 16, 1898, the son of an Orthodox Jewish grocer who immigrated from Poland, and was raised in tenements on the Lower East Side.
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He popularized the term "organic" as a term for growing food without pesticides.
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