{"id":71762,"key":"Henry_Shoobridge","title":"Henry Shoobridge","latest":{"id":1207937,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T23:11:16Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"'''Henry Shoobridge''' (1874-1963) was the pioneer of [[organic farming]] in [[Tasmania]].<ref name=\"Shoobridge\">Paull, John (2010) [http://www.academia.edu/18575684/Henry_Shoobridge_Tasmanias_Pioneer_of_Organic_Farming Henry Shoobridge, Tasmania's Pioneer of Organic Farming.] Journal of Bio-Dynamics Tasmania, 97: 4-10.</ref> He was the founder and the president of the island’s earliest organics advocacy group, the Living Soil Association of Tasmania (1946- 1960)ref name=LSAT>Paull, John (2009) [http://www.academia.edu/18575681/The_Living_Soil_Association_Pioneering_Organic_Farming_and_Innovating_Social_Inclusion The Living Soil Association: Pioneering Organic Farming and Innovating Social Inclusion.] Journal of Organic Systems, 4 (1), pp. 15-33.</ref>..<ref name=\"Shoobridge\">Paull, John (2010) [http://www.academia.edu/18575684/Henry_Shoobridge_Tasmanias_Pioneer_of_Organic_Farming Henry Shoobridge, Tasmania's Pioneer of Organic Farming.] Journal of Bio-Dynamics Tasmania, 97: 4-10.</ref>\n\nThe Shoobridge family had emigrated from [[Kent]], England in 1822 bringing with them the hops cuttings with which they established hops as a successful primary industry in [[Tasmania]]. Henry Shoobridge was schooled at The Friend’s School, the Quaker school in Hobart.\n\nThe Shoobridge family pioneered the farming of hops in [[Tasmania]], and Henry followed his forebears in this work. At the age of 71 years, Henry founded the Living Soil Association of Tasmania (LSAT) at a public meeting in Hobart on 30 August 1946.<ref name=\"LSAT\">Paull, John (2009) [http://www.academia.edu/18575681/The_Living_Soil_Association_Pioneering_Organic_Farming_and_Innovating_Social_Inclusion The Living Soil Association: Pioneering Organic Farming and Innovating Social Inclusion.] Journal of Organic Systems, 4 (1), pp. 15-33.</ref>\n\nThe Living Soil Association of Tasmania affiliated with the Australian Organic Farming and Gardening Society (AOFGS) which was founded in [[Sydney]] in October 1944, and with the UK’s Soil Association which was founded in London in May 1946.<ref name=\"OAAus\">Paull, John (2013) [http://www.academia.edu/9144875/A_history_of_the_organic_agriculture_movement_in_Australia A History of the Organic Agriculture Movement in Australia], In: Mascitelli, Bruno and Lobo, Antonio (Eds.) Organics in the Global Food Chain. Connor Court Publishing, Ballarat, Australia, chapter 3, pp. 37-61.</ref>\n\nThe Living Soil Association of Tasmania was wound up in 1960 but [[organic and sustainable farming]] has continued successfully in Tasmania.\n\n== See also ==\n\n* [[Organic and sustainable farming]]\n* [[Biodynamic Farming]]\n* [[Sustainable agriculture]]\n* [[Ernesto Genoni]]\n* [[Lord Northbourne]]\n\n== Notes and references ==\n\n<references />\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n}}\n\n[[Category:People]]\n[[Category:Agriculture]]\n[[Category:Organic farming]]\n[[Category:Sustainable agriculture]]\n[[Category:Sustainable technologies]]"}