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He and his family live in a selfbuilt, solarpowered house in cabot, vermont, and operate a 40acre livestock, vegetable, and berry farm. Over the past 3 years, hardwick, vermont, a typical hards. The town that food saved was a very informative account of how a rural community works together to maintain its own sustainability. Over the past few years, hardwick, vermont, a typical hardscrabble farming community of 3,000 residents. Tall and lanky, hewitt is in his late thirties and grew up in rural, workingclass vermont. How one community found vitality in local food with a healthy dose of skepticism. If you come into the town of hardwick, vermont, from the east, you come in on route 15, weaving through a series of curves that begin as. The town that food saved the ford family foundation. Ben hewitt is the author of the town that food saved, and the upcoming making supper safe, and articles for magazines such as bicycling, discover, gourmet, mens journal, national geographic adventure, outside, the new york times magazine, yankee and many others. In his new book, the author looks into the effects of the artisanal food movement on his vermont community. His book the town that food saved, published by rodale, tells the story of a rural, workingclass vermont community that is attempting to blueprint and implement a localized food system. Pdf the town that food saved download full pdf book. The captivating story of a small town coming back to life, the town that food saved is narrative nonfiction at its best, full of colorful characters and grounded in. Threshold music, cd, digital in 2010, cabot author ben hewitt penned a book titled the town that food saved.

How one community found vitality in local food rodale books march 16, 2010 this is a smart and lovely book about a smart and lovely experiment. The title seems a little misleading because the town had its own vitality well established before the agripreneurs came into their community. The town that food saved journal of agriculture, food systems. Reading ben hewitt s the town that food saved impelled me to pay a visit to the author at his home, a raggedy farmstead at the end of a rutted, muddy, unmarked lane tucked among the folds and hollows of northcentral vermont. Author ben hewitt wrote about the hardwick revival in his book, the town that food saved.

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