User talk:Iphone54man

Hi, I am doing a Wikipedia Article Adoption for a history course project. I want to make the following addition to the existing Malabar Farm State Park page. I would appreciate some constructive feedback of this draft by April 1, 2013.

The Bromfield family moved to Pleasant Valley in 1939 and lived in the “Fleming house” until their “Big House” was built. Bromfield chose architect Louis Lamoreux of Mansfield to help him design and construct a Greek revival style home. All in all, the project was drug out for 18 months. The 32 room western reserve, where Bromfield wrote many of his books, attracted film stars, artists, politicians, writers, and conservationists annually. As many as 20,000 people visited the farm every year. Sunday tours alone attracted 100 to 200 people. The farm spread over 1000 acres of land. At one point, 200 acres were set aside for apple trees, but they ended up costing Bromfield money. So he got out of apple production. He also stopped his egg production, as well as his sheep and hog breeding. He chose to concentrate on beef and dairy. Additionally, Bromfield developed a technique known as conservation farming. This was based on grass farming, which produced large quantities of forage and pasture. Malabar Farm became a national model for sustainable agriculture. In addition to this, Bromfield experimented with composting using manure from livestock on the farm. Square fields were eliminated so as to discourage erosion. 140 acres were dedicated to timber. In 1958, Bromfield’s children sold the farm to a conservation foundation—Friends of the Land. In August 1972, the deed of Malabar Farm was accepted by the state of Ohio after the Louis Bromfield Malabar Farm Foundation—which had been operating the farm—faced foreclosure. In 1976, the farm became a state park. On April 4, 1993 a fire burned the main barn to the ground. In September, 1994, 150 volunteers from the Timber Framers Guild of North America raised a new barn in resemblance of the original.


 * On 4/26/2013 these additions were made to the Malabar Farm Article