The Planter of Modern LifeLouis Bromfield was a World War I ambulance driver, a Paris expat, and a Pulitzer Prizewinning 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 popularise the tenets of environmentalism years before Rachel Carson's Silent