How organic agriculture saved a town

A few years ago, the town of Hardwick, VT was fading fast. Like so many communities in isolated corners of our state, it had lost many of its primary businesses, including dairy farming and logging. With few jobs available for the town’s 3,000 people, Main Street slowly closed up shop, and Hardwick began sinking into the same oblivion that has claimed so many other American small towns. Then the town discovered food. More…