Helen Browning

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livestock and arable farmer in Wiltshire, England, and Chief Executive of the Soil Association.

Career

In 1986 Browning took on her father's farm near

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, which is rented from the Church of England, and turned it into an organic farm. She founded Eastbrook Farm Organic Meats and the Helen Browning Organic brand. She has held a number of public appointments including the 'Curry Commission' on the Future of Farming and Food, the Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission and the Meat and Livestock Commission. She was Director of External Affairs at the National Trust and has been chair of the Food Ethics Council since 2002. She was a trustee of the Soil Association between 1993 and 2003, chair from 1997 to 2002, and was appointed its Chief Executive in October 2010. She was appointed an OBE in 1998 for her services to organic farming, and a Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire in 2015.Deputy Lieutenant Commissions Lieutenancy of Wiltshire
London Gazette. 20 February 2015.

References

External links

Helen Browning's OrganicGuardian articleBristol Business News
{{DEFAULTSORT:Browning, Helen Living people Alumni of Harper Adams University 21st-century English farmers Officers of the Order of the British Empire 1961 births Deputy Lieutenants of Wiltshire British women farmers 21st-century women farmers