{"id":4485,"date":"2011-07-15T09:12:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T13:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4485"},"modified":"2011-07-15T09:13:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T13:13:18","slug":"morning-listen-did-food-save-hardwick-vermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/07\/15\/morning-listen-did-food-save-hardwick-vermont\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning listen: did food save Hardwick, Vermont?"},"content":{"rendered":"

NPR’s Morning Edition aired a story<\/a> this morning that fits right in with our Farmers Under 40 series.<\/p>\n

Hardwick, Vermont, is the town, according to author Ben Hewitt<\/a>, that “food saved.”\u00a0 Local food, that is, and the smal farms, markets and other businesses that the locavore movement spawned around Hardwick.<\/p>\n

Reporter Dan Charles found a more complicated story when he visited Hardwick:<\/p>\n

But did food really save Hardwick? At the local high school, Hazen Union, some students in senior-level English classes have been reading and discussing Hewitt’s book as a class assignment. They don’t think it tells the whole story.<\/p>\n

“He only covers one side of the town,” says Derek Demers. “There’s the side of the town that’s for the local food movement, but I think there’s an even greater side of the town, with more people, that can’t afford the local food. I work at our local supermarket grocery store, and I see most of the people in town there.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Later, the story evolves further, as, Charles says, Hardwick is still evolving:<\/p>\n

Take Pete Johnson. He owns one of the biggest organic farms in the area \u2014 Pete’s Greens.<\/p>\n

“You know, some of this food has been kind of fancy and on the fringes and perhaps a bit overpriced because the efficiencies of production are low,” he says. “Our farm is small, and it’s really diversified, which means we’re not particularly efficient at raising anything.”<\/p>\n

So Johnson is trying to get a little bit bigger and more efficient. Essentially, he’s moving a little bit in the “industrial” direction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can find our Farmers Under 40 series here<\/a>. Monday, we looking at how the hard realities of farm economics: high cash flow – low margins, plays out on big and small farms.<\/p>\n

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