Links

The Soil Association
The organization Eve Balfour helped to found remains the leading voice of the British organic food and farming movement.
soilassociation.org

Organizations whose establishment was assisted by the Soil Association during Eve Balfour's leadership, include:

International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements
The global umbrella organization for the organic farming community, based in Bonn. IFOAM publishes data annually on the size of the organic sector.
ifoam.org

Garden Organic, formerly The Henry Doubleday Research Association
The organic gardening charity founded by Lawrence Hills in 1954.
www.gardenorganic.org.uk

The McCarrison Society
Named after Sir Robert McCarrison, whose research in the 1920s demonstrated the impact of nutrition on the development of disease in humans. His findings had a profound influence on the early organic movement in Britain.
mccarrisonsociety.org.uk

Rare Breeds Survival Trust
A charity that seeks to preserve rare native livestock breeds.
rbst.org.uk


Organizations and people representing Eve Balfour's personal interests:

Sir George Trevelyan
The charismatic 'New Age' guru Sir George Trevelyan was both a personal friend and a religious ally of Eve's.  Throughout the 1950s, the Soil Association held its annual conference at Attingham Park adult educational college, near Shrewsbury, where Sir George Trevelyan was warden.
sirgeorgetrevelyan.org.uk

Society for Psychical Research
Eve Balfour's parents and other relations were among the founders of this organisation, which sought to prove the validity of the Spiritualist belief in communication with spirits beyond the grave. Throughout her life, Eve Balfour held beliefs espoused by, or similar to, those of British Spiritualism.
spr.ac.uk

Women's Farm and Garden Association
Eve Balfour was a member of the Women's Farm and Garden Association. In addition to being a WFGA member, Eve was involved in the Women's Land Army during the Second World War. She received Land Army recruits at her farm in east Suffolk, teaching them specific agricultural skills in order to prepare them for their first WLA assignments.
wfga.org.uk