Meaning and origin of the term organic
In 1939, Lord Northbourne coined the term organic farming in his book Look to the Land (written in 1939, but published in 1940), out of his conception of "the farm as organism", to describe a holistic, ecologically-balanced approach to farming—in contrast to what he called chemical farming, which relied on "imported fertility" and "cannot be self-sufficient nor an organic whole".[4] This is different from the scientific use of the term "organic", to refer to a class of molecules that contain carbon, especially those involved in the chemistry of life.