Living Soil by Lady Eve Balfour

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Eve Balfour’s The Living Soil made an international impact during the Second World War, and inspired the founding of the Soil Association in 1946. Her skilful synthesis of evidence from other disciplines commanded respect even from opponents, some of whom considered The Living Soil a distinct threat to the new fertiliser industry. It is regarded as one of the great classics of organic literature. Originally published in 1943, this new edition features a foreword by Jonathan Dimbleby and an introduction by Lawrence Woodward OBE, Elm Farm Research Centre.

The Author: Lady Eve Balfour was among the first female agricultural students at the University of Reading when she started in 1915. Her conversion to organic principles occurred in 1938, when she read Viscount Lymington’s book Famine in England. Through it she discovered the ideas of Sir Albert Howard and Sir Robert McCarrison on the relationship between the quality of nutrition and the health of the soil.