Balfour, Eve (1898-1990)
English agriculturalist and pioneer of modern organic farming.
She established the Haughley Experiment, a farm research project at New Bells Farm near Haughley, Suffolk, to demonstrate that a more sustainable agricultural alternative existed.
The experiment ran for almost 30 years, comparing organic and chemical farming systems.
The wide-ranging support it attracted led to the formation of the Soil Association 1946.