Soft-tech farm, Carmel, IN

Abstract

Remaining as the function for which the soil is best suited, it is open to the public to see and experience a working farm. People can follow the assembly lines of the foods being processed at the “plant” and can go out to the unit farms where the beef cattle, hogs (these are the existing functions), chickens and dairy cattle (these are additional ones) are raised. The focal point of the processes and the farmers and city folks is the market where products can be purchased at any stage of refinement by individuals or grocers. It could be an educational for the Carmel schools as well as an extension to the white river park with its similar theme. As its neighbor, Conner Prairie, show historic farming, want this farm to reflect farming's future.