Solaris Farm

A Story of the Twentieth Century

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A meeting between two former college friends in the New York mountains opens Milan C. Edson's vision of a different rural future. Set in 1905, this utopian novel connects Fillmore Flagg's story with the possibilities of cooperative farming. Its introductory pages argue that isolated small farms face mounting pressure from land monopoly and the cost of modern machinery, and that agricultural communities deserve better working and social conditions.

The farm's practical experiments give those ideas a concrete shape. In a workshop behind the Gerrish cottage, Gilbert studies soils, crops, fertilizers, plants, birds and insects. His annotated map becomes a model for records kept in the farm office, while he records results on cards that could become essays for the Press Club.