Growing Green

Growing Green: Animal-Free Organic Techniques by Jenny Hall and Iain Tolhurst (2007)

“Not only does this book inform you of how to grow food commercially, it does it with compassion, sustainability and the planet in mind. This book is a useful and practical guide to all things stockfree and organic. One of the most comprehensive books I have read and one I will be making essential reading for students on all my organic courses.”

—Paul Robertshaw, Welsh College of Horticulture

Growing Green: Animal-Free Organic Techniques, an essential guide to organic growing, is perfect for absolute beginners as well as experienced professionals. It introduces the concept of stockfree-organic and shows, through case studies, that when growers abandon the use of slaughterhouse by-products and manures, they can be rewarded with healthier crops and fewer weeds, pests, and diseases.

In an age where dreams of self-sufficiency seem unattainable, Growing Green shows that making a living by growing organic vegetables can be achieved by anyone who is willing to rent land. Until now there have been no comprehensive guidelines on how to follow organic standards at the different scales of vegetable production using tractors, small machinery, and hand tools.

An invaluable guide for the grower, researcher, and student, this book will prove to be an important step forward for the organic movement.

About the Authors

Iain Tolhurst has 30 years of experience in organic farming. In 1988 he began growing on 18 acres at Hardwick Estate in South Oxfordshire, England. Since 1994 the farm has been run stockfree, being the first ever to be awarded the Stockfree-Organic Symbol.

Jenny Hall has been a leading figure in the Vegan Organic Network since 1998. In 2004, she and her partner Keith Griggs established Sow and Grow Organics in Wigan, England, putting five acres of land into stockfree-organic conversion.