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Farm Profile: Sörtorp, an organic farm in Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2009

William Lockeretz
Affiliation:
Professor, School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155; [email protected].
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About 120 km west of Stockholm, beside a beautiful lake in a landscape of farmland interspersed with evergreen forests, lies perhaps the best known and most frequently visited organic farm in Sweden. As managed by Kalle and Inger Källander since 1982, Sörtorp has become an impressive example of how, with careful planning and management, a farm's available resources can be fashioned into a stable, productive system whose diverse components work together as an organic whole. This cardinal principle of organic farming is often voiced in the abstract, but to achieve it in practice is another matter. It requires a sustained willingness and ability to learn, to devise ingenious uses for the farm's land and facilities, and to try different approaches to solve existing problems and adapt to changing conditions. All this is abundantly evident at Sortorp.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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