By Kristine Moncada, Constance Carlson, Jim Riddle, Gigi DiGiacomo and Craig Sheaffer
In this video, we provide a brief history of organic farming including the beginnings of organic, the U.S. organic movement, U.S. Department of Agriculture involvement, and organic agriculture today. Original or accessible versions of the video are available. We also provide the slides from the video below so that educators can use them to create their own presentations.
Original version
Accessible version
Google Slides
History of organic slide deck - when you click the link, you will go to Google Slides with the options to save the file as your own Google Slides file or to download to your computer as a PowerPoint file.
Acknowledgments
This project was supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Organic Transitions Program under award number 2013-51106-21005.
This project was also supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, National Organic Program under the Transition to Organic Partnership Program (TOPP) in the Midwest region.
Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and should not be construed to represent any official USDA or U.S. Government determination or policy.