An Appalachian State University professor has written a book exploring whether a small town can sustain itself outside the industrial food system, using Boone as a case study for his research.
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An App State professor spent years testing whether Boone could actually feed people without buying from corporate supply chains. He wrote a book about it. The experiment is the substance here, not the answer, Vernon's real question was whether a small mountain town has the guts and the land to opt out of the industrial food machine, and he used our groceries to find out. Read it if you want to know what he learned about us.
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