Green Harvest: a history of organic farming and gardening in Australia by Rebecca Jones

Published by CSIRO PUBLISHING in September.

Green Harvest explores the fertile and healthy history of organic farming and gardening in Australia.  It tells the story of the founding of the first Australian organic societies in the 1940s (which were amongst the first in the world) and explores the principles that have shaped organic growing from the early twentieth century to the present day.  Green Harvest is an environmental history ‘from the ground up’ – the beliefs and practices of organic growers themselves across eight decades.  It examines what it means to grow food organically in Australia and how this has changed over time.  This is an interdisciplinary study combining historical methods with ecological theories of health and includes in-depth interviews, analysis of historical documents and case studies of organic growers.

Rebecca Jones is a lecturer at Monash University Department of Rural and Indigenous Health in Victoria with research interests in environmental history, health history and environmental health.

Further details: http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/21/pid/6416.htm