Veronica House

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New Books in Environmental Studies · Veronica House, "Local Organic: Food Rhetorics and Community Writing for Impact" (Utah State UP, 2025) · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

And on this leased land, they are growing things from like

Or they are a kind of farm that might be regenerative.

They might be growing GMO sugar beets and corn.

They might be a small-scale organic certified farm.

And so there are lots of different kinds of practices that are happening in Boulder.

And as my students and I talked with experts in the area, we realized that there were all of these barriers to local production and ways in which farmers were really struggling.

Boulder County has a very high rate of consumer demand for local food and consumer enthusiasm for local food.

And we also have an 80% failure rate for small scale food.

It's higher than the national average.

And so a question that one of my partners posed is like, why is this happening?

What are the barriers that are making it difficult for farmers?

So that kind of research project is going to be really different from something, say, working with.

an urban farm like I did when I moved to Denver who are really interested in cultural sovereignty and in saving heritage seeds and in like helping communities grow foods that are relevant to them in a predominantly immigrant and refugee neighborhood.

So really, really different kind of a project.

My students would be reading different information and different texts.

We would be talking with different people.

So I think the locale is really vital in shaping a curriculum.

I think that with academics, even certainly the way that I was kind of brought up as a grad student, there's an idea of needing to tear down other people's work to build up our own.

There's this kind of entrenched idea of rugged individualism that I think happens in academia as well.

And I don't want to be a part of that.

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