Looking to the future of the farm

LUCAS — One hopes that readers will forgive the delay in writing upon a subject of such great personal importance. It is simply that the subject indeed requires the kind of thought which, during the end-of-year family festivities is virtually impossible to achieve.

As it is, the news concerning the revitalization by The Ohio Department of Natural Resources of Malabar Farm Park cannot help but inspire one to feel that for this unique state park, things are moving in the right direction.

Malabar is, after all, unique in the sense that it is perhaps the only Farm Park on earth. And it is so because ever since its initiation as a park, it has been dedicated to furthering the practices of soil and forest conservation that my father, Louis Bromfield, practiced and taught during his life. Practices that he wrote of in such a way that their importance could be comprehensible to any interested reader and were thus translated into every known language in the world. Among these, Portuguese spoken in Brazil, a country whose size and agricultural production equals that of the United States in every major commodity.