New Book Looks Back at Growth of Organic Tobacco

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter 11/08/2011

Demand for organic leaf tobacco is doubling each year, according to publicity for a new book, Organic tobacco growing in America and other earth-friendly farming, by Mark Little, Fielding Daniel, Mark Smith and Jim Haskins. Mike Little is the "master blender" and senior vice president of operations for Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co (SFNTC), Fielding Daniel is director of leaf for SFNTC, Mark Smith is a writer and vice president of communications for SFNTC, and Jim Haskins, who has his own company, AgriBusiness Communications Group, has been writing about tobacco growers for more than 10 years for SFNTC. "Here's the colorful history behind this new old way of farming," says the publicity for the new book. "Organic Tobacco Growing in America is a quintessential American story of applying vision and values to innovation. More than just a practical guide on how and why to embrace organic growing, this is a story that stretches from its American Indian-inspired beginnings in the windswept high desert of northern New Mexico to the fabled tobacco roads of the southeast." "Along the way, meet the growers who learned how organic farming of not just tobacco, but vegetables and other produce as well, is returning the principles of nature back to the family farm. This is a story about the rebirth of a lifestyle-a way of life that once was and now is meant to be again-for a world that yearns for sustainable, earth-friendly farming." Enditem