Malabar Farm

Ohioana Award finalist for Best Book about Ohio/Ohioan (2022) "This considered, rich history elevates Bromfield and his beloved farm to their rightful places as influential agricultural and environmental icons." -Foreword Reviews "Anneliese Abbott's book is a tribute to the importance of historical studies. .... Bromfield's work has been rediscovered, and recognized as being of practical value to a world seriously in need of food production methods which increase soil fertility and encourage the abundance of nature's ecology." -Agricultural History Review "Malabar Farm: Louis Bromfield, Friends of the Land, and the Rise of Sustainable Agriculture is an impressively informative, well written, organized and presented study that will be of immense interest to sustainable agriculture advocates and practitioners." -Midwest Book Review "This is a work of great passion, which finally puts Bromfield's soil crusade in historical context. With impeccable research and vivid prose, Anneliese Abbott captures the whole wild adventure of Malabar Farm and shows how our current conversation around sustainability grew out of these rolling fields in Ohio." -Stephen Heyman, author of The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution "Malabar Farm presents well-researched information about Louis Bromfield that even many of his fans may not know, introduces names of less-famous environmentalists, and details the lengthy, heroic effort to save the farm. The author brings a scientist's familiarity with terminology of sustainable farming and the history of agriculture that only specialists will previously have had access to." -Deborah Fleming, winner of the PEN America Art of the Essay Award (2020) for Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio's Natural Landscape