“I became really struck by this wonderful, delicious irony.”
Ben Hewitt, Author of The Town That Food Saved
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| Photo by Sgerbic |
You know the saying: the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. A small town in Vermont has put a new twist on this old adage: the way to a town’s survival is through its green thumb. Hardwick, Vermont (population 3,182), a postindustrial hard-luck town 10 years ago, has become a flourishing organic foods hot spot today. Thirty-something “agro-preneurs” have put this village on the map, attracting fresh food fanatics far and wide with their alluring array of artisanal cheeses and fresh vegetables. The bittersweet irony is that many of the folks in Hardwick can’t afford to pay the steep prices for the organic foods grown locally, but few are complaining. The organic foods boom has produced jobs for this town, and residents are happy to partake of that harvest.
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