 What is the Farm?
"He's gone completely hay-wire. Nobody's been able to get near him for three weeks, and now at six o'clock this morning he decides he's leaving the Farm. As director of psionic research at the Hoffman Medical Center, he had long since learned how administrative detail could suck up daytime hours. "Within the stronghold of psionic research at last. "I want to hear this fairy tale you're about to publish in the name of 'Theory'," Melrose said. "I want to see this famous Farm of yours up in Connecticut and see for myself how much pressure these experimental controls you keep talking about will actually bear.
 The Farm is a compound where they research the psionic abilities of children.
 The Farm is Dr. Lessing's home in the country.  The Farm is a compound where they research the psionic abilities of children.  The Farm is where they train CIA agents with telekinetic abilities.  The Farm is where they do genetic testing on children to give them psychic abilities.