Rodale Organic Gardening Experimental Farm

Rodale Organic Gardening Experimental Farm
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Rodale Farm Clapboard & Stone Bakeoven, September 2012
Location	2056 Minesite Rd., Lower Macungie Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°33′17″N 75°31′20″W / 40.55472°N 75.52222°WCoordinates: 40°33′17″N 75°31′20″W / 40.55472°N 75.52222°W
Area	39.2 acres (15.9 ha)
Built	1940
Built by	Rodale, J. I.
Architectural style	No Style Listed, Federal
NRHP Reference #	99000515[1]
Added to NRHP	May 12, 1999

Rodale Organic Gardening Experimental Farm, also known as the Working Tree Center, is a historic home and farm located at Lynn Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The home is farmhouse dated to about 1830, and altered by J. I. Rodale (1898-1971) for his residence and work, 1940 to 1971. Other contributing buildings and structures pre-dating Rodale's purchase in 1940, are the Pennsylvania bank barn, implement shed, corn crib, and chicken coop. Added by Rodale are the farm office and greenhouse (c. 1945), turkey / goose coop, tennis court, cabana and pool, and pavilion and the clapboard and fieldstone bake house. He also added the five garden sites: the cultivated gardens, the stone gardens, the Sir Albert Howard test plots, and the aerobic and anaerobic compost heaps. The farm is important in the history of organic gardening and farming in the 20th century.^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.^[1]

References

1. Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Tim Noble and Shelby Weaver Splain (November 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Rodale Organic Gardening Experimental Farm" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-05.

External links

• Rodale Inc. history