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Rodale Organic Gardening Experimental Farm

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450: 65: 48: 90: 245:(1898-1971) in order to improve the quality of life at his residence and further his work during 1940 to 1971. Also added by Rodale were a farm office and greenhouse (circa 1945), turkey/goose coop, tennis court, cabana and pool, pavilion, and clapboard and fieldstone bake house, as well as five garden sites: the cultivated gardens, the stone gardens, the Sir Albert Howard test plots, and the aerobic and anaerobic 937: 947: 457: 97: 72: 902: 897: 556: 551: 546: 728: 911: 808: 773: 723: 798: 753: 713: 658: 638: 588: 568: 663: 648: 481: 476: 768: 763: 688: 668: 623: 598: 583: 578: 506: 391: 813: 788: 718: 703: 683: 673: 653: 643: 613: 593: 573: 563: 541: 526: 521: 491: 981: 793: 758: 748: 708: 698: 693: 678: 633: 628: 618: 536: 531: 516: 486: 907: 803: 783: 778: 733: 511: 501: 496: 471: 976: 849: 818: 743: 608: 834: 603: 839: 874: 864: 859: 869: 854: 879: 384: 971: 940: 844: 738: 400: 377: 921: 917: 439: 429: 64: 131: 89: 986: 950: 424: 118: 300: 272: 34: 226: 241:
The home on the experimental farm's property is a farmhouse which dates to roughly the year 1830. It was altered by
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Other buildings and structures which pre-dated Rodale's 1940 purchase include: the Pennsylvania
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Rodale Farm Clapboard and Stone Bakeoven in September 2012
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Tim Noble and Shelby Weaver Splain (November 1998).
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Rodale Organic Gardening Experimental Farm is located in Pennsylvania
Rodale Organic Gardening Experimental Farm is located in the United States
Lower Macungie Township, Pennsylvania
40°33′17″N 75°31′20″W / 40.55472°N 75.52222°W / 40.55472; -75.52222
J. I. Rodale
Federal
99000515
Lynn Township, Pennsylvania
organic gardening
J. I. Rodale
compost
organic gardening
bank barn
corn crib
chicken coop
National Register of Historic Places


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service



"National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania"
"National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Rodale Organic Gardening Experimental Farm"
Rodale Inc. history
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