LIVING HISTORY
ANTHONY INSWASTY
Brolmann puts fresh flowers daily at a shrine for his late wife, Nettie. In the
foreground are the leather-encased photo ID badge he had to wear and the
small diary he kept during his years in the German forced labor camps.
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HONORED BY UF
Brolmann spent many years at the Indian River Field
Laboratory for the University of Florida, traveling the
world presenting his research on plants, and discovering
new plants and ways to propagate them. While Brolmann
focused on native plants, he also looked to plants from other
countries as well.
“We studied tropical legumes and I brought some plants
back from Australia,” he says. “We hoped they would survive
in our pastures (to provide nutritious food for local cattle).”
Faculty and staff center presented Brolmann with a plaque
for his development of savanna stylo, which has led to
improvement of pastures. It was a new, high-yielding forage
and hay legume for Florida.
“Breeding (of plants) takes about 20 years,” Brolmann says,
“before you really find something. You have to test it against
other things like resistance to disease and food value.”
The plant he developed was seeded on Adams Ranch in St.
Lucie County and other places to see if the cattle would like
it, he adds.
Retiring at 73, Brolmann continued to work part time for
UF, spending 31 years as a university employee. Now, the
97-year-old spends his days working on his backyard garden
with his youngest son, Jan-Paul, a retired firefighter who
visits his father daily. He also picks fresh flowers for a small
shrine he created in memory of his beloved wife, Nettie, who
died in 2017.
And sometimes when he reflects on his life, he may recall a
time when he stood tall against all odds and survived to tell
about it.
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