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1. About Soil & Health Association - History
organicnz.vibrantplanet.com/pa - [Cached]Published on: 3/20/2007 Last Visited: 12/14/2007
Robert Crowder, Senior Lecturer in Horticulture at Lincoln College, established the Biological Husbandry Unit at Lincoln.
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Lincoln College, under the guidance and inspiration of Robert Crowder, together with members of the Soil Association (Canterbury Branch), presented to the public one of the finest and most graphic demonstrations of organically grown food ever shown in New Zealand. A full page article in a daily newspaper and other publicity brought hundreds of people to visit the Biological Husbandry Unit at Lincoln for a field day. Here, Bob Crowder and his team conducted the visitors around and explained the working of the unit.
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Robert Crowder, President of the NZBPC, was appointed to the Board of Directors of IFOAM (International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements) at the General Assembly. C Alma Baker, author of several books on organic methods, had died in 1941, and in his will deeded money to the science of organic growing. The Soil and Health Association only discovered this a few years ago and approaches by Perry Spiller and Bob Crowder to the authorities and to the Baker Trust meant that some funds became available. -
2. Life Members
www.organicnz.org/page/Soil+an - [Cached]Published on: 3/20/2008 Last Visited: 3/20/2008
Bob Crowder -
3. www.sonicbloom.com
www.sonicbloom.com/soundandglo - [Cached]Published on: 5/1/1994 Last Visited: 12/10/2007
In an effort to establish if Sonic Bloom lives up to its promise, Growing Today has asked Bob Crowder of Lincoln University's Biological Husbandry Unit, to subject the product to some controlled trials.

