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Locavore Valley: The Next Big Boom?

Posted on October 13, 2008

In difficult economic times, it helps to learn from those who have been through hardship and found a way to recover. Perhaps that's why this story about Hardwick, Vermont, published in last week's New York Times, resonates particularly strongly. As NYT reporter Marian Burros writes, the New England town of 3,000 was left ghostly after the closure of granite companies, a keystone local industry. Now the community is rallying around a thriving new agricultural scene. But this is a different kind of farming, born out of the resurgence in organic, small-scale local agriculture that's been felt...

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