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To Be a Good Vermonter

Miz Jack Thomas

What it means to be a good American (and perhaps even a good human) through a Vermont lens. Essays, interviews, audio, & images.

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    Self-taught regenerative farmsteader. Food & homesteading educator. Enthusiastic Vermonter. Queer 2A leftist. Founder, ACRE (Agrarian Co-Learning & Resiliency Exchange). Writing about growing/raising food, leftist prepping, politics, & Vermont life.

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