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Organic Then and Now – a timeline
- 1920s Sir Albert Howard carries out his work on composts in India
- 1930s Until now, all food is organic, there is no other way! But artificial chemicals are starting to be used. Some farms resist: they are the first organic pioneers
- 1939-45 Dig for victory – many folk can’t afford chemicals
- 1946 Lady Balfour’s landmark book The Living Soil is published setting out the early vision of the organic movement and leading directly to the Soil Association being established
- 1950s It’s a brave new world (and almost a lost cause), let’s squeeze more out of the land we’ve got all these amazing pesticides and fertilisers
- 1967 While the likes of John Lennon, Terence Stamp and The Rolling Stones are filling up on macrobiotic organics at the first organic café most people have not heard of organic food, but they will do ? because the first organic standards were established this year
- 1973 Organic certification is introduced
- 1983 Waitrose is the first supermarket to carry organics
- 1993 Organic sales top £100 million
- 2005 Organic sales reach £2 billion, and Tesco carries 1200 lines
- 2007 Organic-led pressure forces the Government to reintroduce cookery into schools so future generations will not suffer the blight of poor food knowledge that has lead to diet-related diseases in the UK. Whole Earth Foods, the grand-daddy of organic foods celebrates 40 years
- 2009+? Organic farms are so efficient they can carbon trade while ‘conventional’ farms are penalised for carbon-inefficiency?
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