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

I had heard a little about organic food.

I had read Fast Food Nation, and that was about it.

And so I started going to events and restaurants that supported local food and just started to get interested in it.

And right around that time, Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma came out.

And that then kind of like gelled it all for me.

I started to get really invested in what it means to support local small scale producers.

But I think, you know, one of the questions I had is, would that have happened if I hadn't moved to Boulder?

And I don't think it would have.

I think it really shaped my career trajectory to live in Boulder, in Boulder County, and to be surrounded by those conversations and ideas.

And so my challenge to other professors and teachers is to think about what is most important where you live and

and then to get involved in that through curricular innovation.

Sure.

Well, I found out once I moved to Boulder, where I didn't think I knew anyone and didn't think I had any connections, found out that my great great grandmother was actually a homesteader in Boulder back in the 1870s and 80s.

She was a girl at the time and had moved out kind of following her uncles during the Colorado Gold Rush.

And so she lived on a homestead in Boulder County.

I wasn't totally sure where it was, but I found the schoolhouse where she went to school.

And I learned that she was a student and then a teacher at the University of Colorado in their school teacher program at the time.

It was very small.

But

Suddenly, I was learning about farming in Boulder, and I was a teacher in Boulder, and then realized that I had this ancestral connection to someone who had farmed and someone who had taught right in the area where I was.

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