Organic vs Chemical Farming – Soil and Health Library

The Trouble with Organic Certification

24 October, 2016
Alice Reinheimer
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Yes, that is an oil well in the field! This certified Organic farm near Maricopa, California, is growing blueberries in a soil-less media. Surrounded by chemical agriculture for miles and miles, one has to wonder whether these blueberries taste like…

Long-Term Field Experiment in Sweden: Effects of Organic and Inorganic Fertilizers on Soil Fertility and Crop Quality

17 April, 2015
Alice Reinheimer

Graphs and charts.

Organic Foods vs Supermarket Foods: Element Levels

17 April, 2015
Alice Reinheimer

FOCUS ON ORGANIC FOOD QUALITY- FEEDING TRIALS

17 April, 2015
Alice Reinheimer

Toward a Sustainable Agriculture–The Living Soil

4 February, 2015
Alice Reinheimer

A talk about the Haughley Experiment, given by Lady Balfour at an IFOAM conference in Switzerland.

Soil Fertility: A Guide to Organic and Inorganic Soil Amendments

4 February, 2015
Alice Reinheimer

This valuable book went out of print years ago. It was revised and updated in 2013 and republished on the internet by the author.

Nutritional Value of Crops as Influenced by Organic and Inorganic Fertilizer Treatments: Results of 12 years’ of experiments with vegetables.

4 February, 2015
Alice Reinheimer

Article's content is as the full title states. May be the first significant study of the quality differences between organically grown and "conventional" foodstuffs.

Chemicals, Humus and the Soil (1957 edition)

3 February, 2015
Alice Reinheimer

This later edition contains several new chapters, a new preface and much fresh information about fertilizers and their sensible use.

Chemicals, Humus and the Soil

25 July, 2014
Alice Reinheimer

Chemical fertilizers are effective and positive to the degree that humus remains in the soil; chemical fertilizers cause problems only when they completely or substantively replace farmyard manure. Hopkins takes on the Howardites point by point and demolishes many of their positions.

Second Thoughts About Organic Agriculture

25 July, 2014
Alice Reinheimer

A frequent correspondent of this library, Justin Naylor, has written a short and worthy article that appeared in Acres, USA about the organic/chemical controversy, using Donald Hopkin's book as a springboard.