Veronica House

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463 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 20 Dec

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He one time when we were reading a chapter of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, he brought McDonald's to class.

It was just like that kind of a student initially.

And he was also a really good writer.

So it was very frustrating for me.

And as the semester went on, he started to work for his community based work.

He worked with a guy who in Boulder in his Boulder neighborhood had started to convert front yards into restaurants.

And so it was like the CSA model in a neighborhood where all of these people use their front yards to produce food.

And then they, as a neighborhood, sold the food in a CSA.

So they were sharing the food that they produced.

And my student was writing about this work very passionately.

And I thought, is he just doing this for the grade?

Yeah.

Like, how can you convert, you know, turn that much?

But he seemed to genuinely care.

And then three or four years later, he sent me an email.

And he was in Australia, no, in New Zealand, working on an organic farm.

And he was wearing overalls and he had long hair.

And I was just, you know, he talked about how the class meant so much to him and had changed his life.

And I just thought that is amazing.

I never would have thought that this student...

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