This water-themed issue features articles on Local Trout, Aquaponics and Wild Mountain Fish - all found in our beloved Green Mountain state. Does that article look familiar? "Hooked on Aquaponics", was a reprint from The Commons article from March, only with different photos and a fancier layout. I was honored to be featured.
Soon after VLB's 25th summer edition came out, Brattleboro hosted some Localvore activities as part of their "Slow Living Summit". Not surprisingly, Vermont was, again, rated #1 on the Localvore Index. A famous author, Francis Moore Lappe, even came to town and talked to people about her book, "Diet for a Small Planet". People came from far away, including a group of Middlebury College students who visited town on a field trip for a summer food course. After they heard Lappe's talk, they visited our house and learned about Aquaponics. I eagerly shared how growing your own food with Aquaponics is more sustainable, healthier, better for the environment and more economically positive than foods sourced from "big Ag", or large-scale, globalized food systems. They were bright students, and easily understood the many benefits of growing with Aquaponics.
My wife is Susan Crowther, author of the new Natural Foods/Culinary Arts book,
"The No Recipe Cookbook: A Beginner's Guide to the Art of Cooking".
We spent the following evening at her first book signing in Brattleboro. Even though it poured rain, and we never saw Francis Moore Lappe, we did have a great time talking to people about FARE WELL (her acronym for cooking with what's "Fresh, Ripe, Whole and Local"), at at The Kitchen Sync on Main Street.
But, now all this talk about food is making me hungry...time to pick some more Aquaponic salad!
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