LivingHistoryFarm.org the Story of Agricultural Innovation
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About David Wessels and the Living History Farm
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David Wessels didn't take his dedication to rural America with him after his death. The vision he left in his will opened the door to an array of opportunities in just a few simple phrases – "a certain amount of land and capital should be set aside to establish the 'Wessels Living History Farm'."
When David Wessels wrote those phrases, he left an opportunity to send a living story to the world, a story about the spirit of American agriculture. The story goes back to Native Americans who first cultivated these fields, through the first European immigrants staking out the prairie ground, through boom and bust cycles and through the incredible techonological innovations of the 20th Century. It's a story that will continue as long as the human race consumes food.
Local citizens formed a committee in 1995 including business people and farmers to carry out Wessels' vision of an the educational project. Five years of research took place, including studies by consultants with grandiose ideas about what truly defined a "living history farm."
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