From Rogue’s Gallery to Foodie Haven

Travel Blog  •  Joanna Kakissis  •  10.22.08 | 12:05 PM ET

imageHardwick, Vermont used to be one of those forgotten small towns where you were far more likely to find cheap beer and bar fights than artisan cheeses. But since the mid-1970s, Vermont has nurtured its sustainable food culture into one of the most enviable in the country, Gourmet reports. Hardwick is a capital, of sorts.

It’s home to several food-based businesses, including Vermont Soy, Patchwork Farm and Bakery and Apple Cheek farms. The town began attracting “left-leaning back-to-landers” 33 years ago with the Buffalo Mountain Food Co-op. Today diners flock to Claire’s, a successful community-based restaurant that gets 70 percent of its ingredients within a 15-mile radius.

Photo by Zesmerelda via Flickr (Creative Commons).

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Joanna Kakissis's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post, among other publications. A contributor to the World Hum blog, she's currently a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder.


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