From My Experience: The Pleasures and Miseries of Life on a Farm

"From My Experience" is full of stimulating ideas, fascinating for anyone who understands or wishes to understand something of land and people and animals and plants—their relations to economics, science, and the vast scheme of life itself. But it catches one's attention in a different way and draws one back to read it, searchingly, again and again. For in it, cleanly and powerfully concentrated, is the story of a man's search for the meaning of living. —Ellen Geld With an exceptional gift, Louis Bromfield directed his excessive energy toward writing, talking, farming, and the business of making sense out of his surroundings—culminating in the creation of a socially exciting and ecologically significant homestead in Pleasant Valley, Ohio, known as Malabar Farm. Read more