View source for Organic Farming Digest

{{Short description|Defunct Australian farming magazine}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2014}}
{{Use Australian English|date=May 2014}}
{{italic title}}
The '''''Organic Farming Digest''''' (1946–1954) was the first [[organic farming]] magazine to be published by an agricultural association.<ref name="orgp">{{cite news|author=John Paull|title=The world's first and newest organic magazines are Australia|url=http://orgprints.org/15934/1/15934.pdf|accessdate=28 December 2016|work=Organic Pioneers|date=2008}}</ref> The magazine was based in [[Sydney]].<ref name="orgp"/> It was published quarterly. About half of the articles published were by Australian authors, the authors by authors from the rest of the world.<ref name=Paull2008>Paull, John [http://www.orgprints.org/15089/1/15089new.pdf "The Lost History of Organic Farming in Australia"], ''Journal of Organic Systems'', 2008, 3 (2):2-17.</ref>
The ''Organic Farming Digest'' was published by the [[Australian Organic Farming and Gardening Society]].<ref name=Paull2008/> It was also adopted and distributed as the official publication of the [[Living Soil Association of Tasmania]].<ref name=Paull2009>Paull, John [http://orgprints.org/16429/1/16429.pdf "The Living Soil Association: Pioneering Organic Farming and Innovating Social Inclusion"], ''Journal of Organic Systems'', 2009, 4(1):15-33.</ref> The final issue of the Digest was Volume 3, Number 5 dated December 1954. The society was wound up on 19 January 1955 and the reason given was lack of funds.<ref name=Paull2008/>
== See also ==
* [[Agriculture]]
* [[Organic food]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:1946 establishments in Australia]]
[[Category:1954 disestablishments in Australia]]
[[Category:Defunct agricultural magazines]]
[[Category:Quarterly magazines published in Australia]]
[[Category:Defunct magazines published in Australia]]
[[Category:Defunct English-language magazines]]
[[Category:Magazines established in 1946]]
[[Category:Magazines disestablished in 1954]]
[[Category:Magazines published in Sydney]]
[[Category:Organic farming in Australia]]