The Planter of Modern Life
Please join our partner, the Westport Library, for this virtual event, part of the “Dinner Disrupted” series. This time around, it’s disrupting lunch, as it’s scheduled forTue, May 10 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT.
Stephen Heyman, author of The Planter of Modern Life will talk about America's most famous farmer inspired organic food movement.
Louis Bromfield was a World War I ambulance driver, a Paris expat, and a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist as famous in the 1920s as Hemingway or Fitzgerald. But he cashed in his literary success to finance a wild agrarian dream in his native Ohio. The ideas he planted at his utopian experimental farm, Malabar, would inspire America’s first generation of organic farmers and popularize the tenets of environmentalism years before Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.
Registration is required. Please do so on the Westport Library website