Vermont Food Self-Sufficiency

As a leader in the organic food movement far back into the twentieth century, Vermont’s farmers had long ago given up using chemical fertilizers and insecticides. By the early 2020s, using bio-intensive gardening techniques, organic fertilizers and insecticides, and non-genetically-engineered super-hybrid seed development, this fortuitous combination of Yankee ingenuity and the environmentalist fervor of “flatlanders” who’d immigrated to Vermont in the late twentieth century, enabled Vermont to become the first of the 60 states in the United States of North America to be food self-sufficient. On top of that, the crops grown in the state were all organic and non-genetically engineered. As a result, despite its cold climate, the fledgling nation of New Vermont was better prepared than most other nations on the North American continent to meet the challenges of a low fossil-fuel economy. (See an article on sustainable and unsustainable agriculture from the now-banned subversive organization: the Union of Concerned Scientists.)