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Organic gardening homesteading livestock real food may june 1987 friendly and 51 years old has run his large garden small farm for 12 years his 10 acre holding consists of good . When ji rodale put out the first issue in 1942 originally organic farming and gardening only a handful of people had ever heard of organic gardening or organic anything else for that matter organic is now a multi billion dollar a year consumer market with far more people buying organic than growing organic . Search organic roots an electronic collection of historic usda publications related to organic agriculture contains almost 800 documents published before 1942 before synthetic chemicals became widely used that contain data that are still very pertinent for todays agriculture. History of organic farming in the us ji rodale founder of the rodale research institute and organic farming and gardening magazine is commonly regarded as the father of the modern organic farming movement beginning in the 1940s rodale provided the main source of information about non chemical farming methods and was heavily influential in the development . By using everything we are able to do our compost rows and return as much to the soil as we possibly can it is the cycle of life birth growth and death