Vegan Organic Network

The Vegan Society has announced the winners of its 2009 awards, decided as always by ballot of the Society’s members. The award for Best Vegan Project or Campaign goes to the Vegan-Organic Network, voted to be outstanding amongst a growing number of contenders.

In announcing the award, Amanda Baker, Vegan Society Media Officer, said ‘Congratulations – it’s great to see VON getting the wider recognition which you deserve.’

VON is doubly pleased because this is the second time they have received the award, suggesting that their message of ‘clean, green and cruelty free’ food is really spreading. VON exists to promote organic stockfree methods of growing food, which means avoiding manufactured chemicals, animal manures and slaughterhouse by-products. Since VON published the Stockfree Organic Standards in 2004, 40 stockfree farms have been added to VON’s directory, all successful and some very highly respected in the organic fraternity.

After selling out the first edition, the Vegan-Organic Network has now revised and reprinted the highly praised Stockfree Organic handbook Growing Green: Organic Techniques for a Sustainable Future by Jenny Hall and Iain Tolhurst. The book is an essential guide to stockfree-organic growing and is perfect for absolute beginners as well as experienced professionals. It introduces the concept of stockfree-organic food production and shows, through case studies, that when growers abandon the use of slaughterhouse by-products and animal manures they can be rewarded with healthier crops and fewer weeds, pests and diseases.