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Organic Farming
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Farming built around naturally occurring, non-synthetic inputs: compost and manure instead of synthetic fertilizer, cultural and biological control instead of synthetic pesticide. It grew out of an early-twentieth-century reaction to those same new synthetic inputs, from Albert and Gabrielle Howard's Institute of Plant Industry in India and Rudolf Steiner's 1924 lectures on biodynamic method to J.I. Rodale's Rodale Institute, which did more than any other single body to spread organic method in the United States.
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Practice ClassSoil fertility and pest management 1 OriginThe term "organic farming" was coined by Walter James, Lord Northbourne, in his 1940 manifesto Look to the Land, after Albert Howard's earlier work in India and Rudolf Steiner's 1924 lectures had already laid out competing early versions of the same reaction against industrial agriculture. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Cultural and biological pest control, organic farming's own pest strategy, overlaps integrated pest management's toolkit
A named movement within the broader sustainable-agriculture family of goals
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1. Organic Farming (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead section; History sectionQuote, Lead section; History section
Organic farming, also known as organic agriculture or ecological farming, or biological farming, is an agricultural system that emphasizes the use of naturally occurring, non-synthetic inputs.
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