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
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