The Soil And Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture (Culture of the Land: A Series in the New Agrarianism)

Soil And Health Argues That Industrial Agriculture, Emergent In Howard's Era And Dominant Today, Disrupts The Delicate Balance Of Nature And Irrevocably Robs The Soils Of Its Fertility. Howard's Classic Treatise Links The Burgeoning Health Crisis Facing Crops, Livestock, And Humanity To This Radical Degradation Of The Earth's Soil. His Message - That We Must Respect And Restore The Health Of The Soil For The Benefit Of Future Generations - Still Resonates Among Those Who Are Concerned About The Effects Of Chemically Enhanced Agriculture.--cover. The Operations Of Nature -- Systems Of Agriculture -- The Maintenance Of Soil Fertility In Great Britain -- Industrialism And The Profit Motive -- The Intrusion Of Science -- Some Diseases Of The Soil -- The Diseases Of Crops -- Disease And Health In Livestock -- Soil Fertility And Human Health -- The Nature Of Disease -- Origins And Scope Of The Problem -- The Indore Process And Its Reception By The Farming And Gardening Worlds -- The Reception Of The Indore Process By The Scientists -- A Final Survey. Sir Albert Howard ; With A New Introduction By Wendell Berry. Originally Published: New York : Devin-adair Company, 1947. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

During his years as a scientist working for the British government in India, Sir Albert Howard conceived of and refined the principles of organic agriculture. Howard's The Soil and Health became a seminal and inspirational text in the organic movement soon after its publication in 1945. The Soil and Health argues that industrial agriculture, emergent in Howard's era and dominant today, disrupts the delicate balance of nature and irrevocably robs the soil of its fertility. Howard's classic treatise links the burgeoning health crises facing crops, livestock, and humanity to this radical degradation of the Earth's soil. His message—that we must respect and restore the health of the soil for the benefit of future generations—still resonates among those who are concerned about the effects of chemically enhanced agriculture.

During his years as a scientist working for the British government in India, Sir Albert Howard conceived of and refined the principles of organic agriculture. Howard's The Soil and Health became a seminal and inspirational text in the organic movement soon after its publication in 1945. The Soil and Health argues that industrial agriculture, emergent in Howard's era and dominant today, disrupts the delicate balance of nature and irrevocably robs the soil of its fertility. Howard's classic treatise links the burgeoning health crises facing crops, livestock, and humanity to this radical degradation of the Earth's soil. His message -- that we must respect and restore the health of the soil for the benefit of future generations -- still resonates among those who are concerned about the effects of chemically enhanced agriculture With a New Introduction by Wendell Berry The Soil and Health was published in 1945, just before agricultural corporations surged to global proportions. Sir Albert Howard's work is a major inspiration to the growing organic and sustainable farming movement and a thought-provoking reminder of a road not taken in developing mainstream agriculture during the past half-century. The central tenet of Howard's philosophy is that healthy soil, vegetation, animals, and humans are connected and that undernourishment of soil is the source of modern agricultural and health problems. In Howard's estimation