Rice! The Newest Local Food!
Local Vermont rice. Sounds like an oxymoron, right?
I’ve always associated rice farming with tropical locations – India, Vietnam, China…. However, starting a few years ago, 3 ingenious Vermont farmers started trying to grow rice here! Northern Japan, they reasoned, has a climate even colder than Vermont’s and grows plenty of rice.
The result? As of yesterday, for the first time in the history of Burlington, we have local rice on our shelves!