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Re: [Homestead] Garden soil: it's much more than dirt

From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
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Subject: Re: [Homestead] Garden soil: it's much more than dirt
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 06:37:09 -0700

Malabar Farm?
Didn't they practice this?

Louis Bromfield was a strong influence on many of my age. I remember talking about him with Gene Logsdon, who lives in the same part of the world as Malabar Farm. Bromfield wrote three books that inspired my teenage dream of one day owning a substantial piece of land and living a full life thereon: The Farm, a semi-autobiographical novel; Pleasant Valley, his coming-home book; and Malabar Farm. In the latter are two chapters devoted to the subject, Grass, the Great Healer. Yes, Bromfield on his Malabar Farm practiced sound agricultural practices that today are well-known but, alas, often ignored.

I recommend Pleasant Valley and Malabar Farm to any whose rural dreams could use a bit of inspiration to make it through the uphill times.

Re: [Homestead] Garden soil: it's much more than dirt , (continued)
- Re: [Homestead] Garden soil: it's much more than dirt, Melody O., 03/04/2005
  - Re: [Homestead] Garden soil: it's much more than dirt, Gene GeRue, 03/05/2005
- Re: [Homestead] Garden soil: it's much more than dirt, Clansgian, 03/04/2005
  - Re: [Homestead] Garden soil: it's much more than dirt, Gene GeRue, 03/04/2005
    - Re: [Homestead] Garden soil: it's much more than dirt, Gene GeRue, 03/04/2005
- Re: [Homestead] Garden soil: it's much more than dirt, Clansgian, 03/04/2005
  - Re: [Homestead] Garden soil: it's much more than dirt, Melody O., 03/07/2005
- Re: [Homestead] Garden soil: it's much more than dirt, clhw, 03/07/2005
  - Re: [Homestead] Garden soil: it's much more than dirt, Gene GeRue, 03/08/2005