• Then & Now: The Big House at Malabar Farm 1939
    Then & Now: The Big House at Malabar Farm 1939

  • Louis Bromfield is shown here in front of his farm produce stand across the road from the Big House in Lucas.

  • The author and Ellen Bromfield Geld on Mt Jeez. Without Ellen’s guidance, Mark Jordan says that he could not have written his historical drama “Louie.”

  • Louis Bromfield was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who is remembered today primarily as a forefather of the modern conservation movement. Malabar Farm was the world-famous estate he created in southern Richland County.

  • Ellen and her husband, Carson Geld, visiting the goats in the big barn at Malabar Farm, 2012.

  • At the time of Ellen and Carson’s visit to Malabar Farm in 2012, Peggy Eilenfeld was the head of the farm staff. Peggy had serious reservations about my historical drama about the Bromfield family.

  • Cells from the Disney short Ferdinand the Bull were presented as gifts to Louis Bromfield’s daughters, and are on display at the Malabar Farm big house.

  • Malabar abundance

    The most important evidence that Bromfield’s systems of farming were effective was the proof of soil productivity: produce.

  • The Big House is located at Malabar Farm, and is famed for its dedication to agriculture.

  • Ellen Bromfield Geld, atop the Mt. Jeez scenic lookout at Malabar Farm, October 2012. The last surviving daughter of Malabar Farm founder Louis Bromfield passed away last weekend at the age of 87.