Ben Hewitt - The Town That Food Saved

Ben Hewitt writes and farms in Northern Vermont. His work has appeared in numerous national periodicals, including the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Gourmet, Discover, Skiing, Eating Well, Powder, Men's Journal, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, Bicycling, and many others. He lives with his wife and two sons in a self-built home that is powered by a windmill and solar photovoltaic panels. To help offset his renewable energy footprint, Ben drives a really big truck. His book The Town That Food Saved, published by Rodale, tells the story of a rural, working-class Vermont community that is attempting to blueprint and implement a localized food system. Ben is currently working on a book about food safety, to be published by Rodale in 2011. Ben is available for interviews, speaking engagements, and as a guest at any party where large quantities of barely-cooked meat will be served.	buy now
Day to Day
Honesty I didn’t find the old sugarhouse foundation until the third or fourth summer we lived on our land. Unlike so many things I don’t do, or don’t do until much later than one might expect, this was not due to laziness; after all, we were building a house at the time. For a while there, [...] Read More...
Burdened by berries Apparently, blogging is not my forte, and particularly during the height of summer, when the days are longest but feel the shortest, disappearing in a haze of animal husbandry, berry picking, fence line clearing, firewood cutting, garden tending, and so on. Yesterday I was picking blueberries at 5:50 a.m., and again at 8:30 p.m., both time [...] Read More...
Here & Now Taped a segment with Jane Clayson of Here and Now (WBUR Boston). Here’s a link to the show, which airs Monday 7/19 Read More...
Good stuff First butter of the season. Last year I made 100 pounds. It wasn’t enough. Shooting for 150 this summer. Read More...
Hot Pigs hot. Cows hot. Chickens hot. Boys hot. Coupla recent bits: Story in the LA Times Podcast interview with Tom Philpott Read More...
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