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Malabar Farm: Louis Bromfield, Friends of the Land, and the Rise of Sustainable Agriculture

Anneliese Abbott

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Description:Established in 1939 by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and farmer Louis Bromfield, Malabar Farm was once considered “the most famous farm in the world.” Farmers, conservationists, politicians, businessmen, and even a few Hollywood celebrities—including Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall—flocked to rural Ohio to see how Bromfield restored worn-out land to lush productivity using conservation practices. Anneliese Abbott tells the story of Malabar Farm within the context of the wider histories of soil conservation, the environmental movement, and the Ohio-based conservation organization Friends of the Land. Malabar Farm, which became an Ohio State Park in 1976, provides and intriguing case study of how soil conservation flourished during the New Deal, was marginalized during the 1950’s, and continues to influence the modern idea of sustainable agriculture.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Malabar Farm: Louis Bromfield, Friends of the Land, and the Rise of Sustainable Agriculture. To get started finding Malabar Farm: Louis Bromfield, Friends of the Land, and the Rise of Sustainable Agriculture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 251

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Kent State University Press

Release: 2021

ISBN: 1606354310

Description: Established in 1939 by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and farmer Louis Bromfield, Malabar Farm was once considered “the most famous farm in the world.” Farmers, conservationists, politicians, businessmen, and even a few Hollywood celebrities—including Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall—flocked to rural Ohio to see how Bromfield restored worn-out land to lush productivity using conservation practices. Anneliese Abbott tells the story of Malabar Farm within the context of the wider histories of soil conservation, the environmental movement, and the Ohio-based conservation organization Friends of the Land. Malabar Farm, which became an Ohio State Park in 1976, provides and intriguing case study of how soil conservation flourished during the New Deal, was marginalized during the 1950’s, and continues to influence the modern idea of sustainable agriculture.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Malabar Farm: Louis Bromfield, Friends of the Land, and the Rise of Sustainable Agriculture. To get started finding Malabar Farm: Louis Bromfield, Friends of the Land, and the Rise of Sustainable Agriculture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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