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 it, at first, was really exciting.

I would say that was the most immediate response, was just...

wow, am I walking in areas she walked?

Am I in buildings where she taught?

And then I started to delve into the family history and trying to figure out where that homestead was and learned more about the family and more about settlers in the area in general.

And it just wove in really deeply with who I am and how I want to practice and kind of be in the world.

And I

I started to really wonder, was there some kind of strange serendipity that led me to this place?

And even if not, what is my role as someone descended from a settler colonizer?

What is my role in this area and in the idea of promoting just local food?

And so that also led me down a path of questioning and thinking about my impact in the community.

The other cool thing that I talk about in the very end of the book is that I had a student in my last semester at University of Colorado.

who it turned out happened to live on the old homestead.

And that was like the strangest thing.

I had thousands of students during my time at University of Colorado, and he was stuck in my section.

And we started talking about his family and where he grew up.

And it turned out that he was

And so he let me go visit the homestead and kind of walk the grounds.

And that was my final semester in Boulder.

And it was an incredible kind of closing to that chapter of my life.

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