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The daughter of the Second Earl Of Balfour , she began farming in 1920, in Haughley Green , Suffolk , England . In 1939, with her friend and neighbor Alice Debenham , she launched the Haughley Experiment , the first long-term, side-by-side Scientific comparison of organic and Chemical-based Farming .

In 1943, she published the organics classic, '' The Living Soil '', a book combining her research with the initial findings at Haughley. In 1946, she co-founded and became the first president of the Soil Association , an international organization promoting Sustainable Agriculture (and the main Organic Farming association in the UK today). She continued to farm, write and lecture for the rest of her life.