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Bob Crowder in his garden

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Bob Crowder in his garden

Bob Crowder, among his organic cabbages, explains his methods of organic crop production. While a lecturer in horticulture at Lincoln University, he set up the Biological Husbandry Unit in the mid-1970s. At the time he was the only researcher in the country advocating organic methods of farming.

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Seager Mason, Organic farming – Organics in New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16947/bob-crowder-in-his-garden (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Seager Mason, published 1 March 2009.

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Waikwa Stephen Wachiraammile
21 March 2012
Hi Bob, Its been such a long time . Please get in touch old boy! Stephen Kenya