Episode 24 - Albert Howard. Albert Howard’s research in India converted him to the Organic cause, although he didn’t quite fit within their social or political groups. Stapledon, as a scientist, also considers him an outsider and pokes fun at him when they meet. Howard promotes the ‘Indore Method’ of composting as a viable means to manufacture humus, organic matter in the top layer of soil. It was hoped that society might re-design itself around humus production, rather than sewage and landfill, and the need for nitrogen fertiliser might be avoided. In line with blood-and-soil ideology, Howard felt this would have health benefits for the population.
In his re-designing of the earlier ‘Humus Theory’, Howard establishes a ‘scientific’ opposition to scientific agriculture which endures to this day.
Sources:
E J Russell ‘Russell’s soil conditions and plant growth’, 1988.
Lord Lymington ‘A Knot of Roots’, 1965
Lord Northbourne, ‘Look to the Land, 1940
John Paull, ‘Lord Northbourne, the man who invented organic farming, a biography. Journal of Organic Systems, 9(1), 31-53, 2014.
Media used:
Make Fruitful the Land, British Council Archive.
Le Grand Chase, pixabay
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