All about Eve
Sep 08, 2021
3 minutes
OF all the experiments that Lady Eve Balfour undertook over the course of her long life, the one most likely to have baffled her neighbours was her investigation into whose urine was the most beneficial to compost: her own (alkaline) or that of her long-term companion, Kathleen Carnley (acidic). Lady Eve, however, did not much care what her neighbours thought. The woman who co-founded the Soil Association and pioneered an organic-farming movement rarely minded being called a ‘crank’. After all, a crank—as she told the BBC’s in 1989—was
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