The Fight to Farm: The Battle for Local Food’s Future with Jeremiah Vernon at Vernon Family Farm in NH

What happens when a farm does everything right—gets permits, follows regulations, and builds a thriving local food community—only to be hit with lawsuits from its own neighbors? That’s the reality for Vernon Family Farm in New Hampshire, where a battle over agritourism, zoning laws, and NIMBY opposition is threatening their ability to survive.

In this episode of One Bite is Everything, we dig into:

✅ The rise of NIMBYism against small farms and why it’s happening

✅ The blurred lines between agritourism and “commercial activity”

✅ The staggering financial and emotional toll of legal battles on farmers

✅ How zoning laws and local opposition are shaping the future of local food

✅ What you can do to support farmers facing similar challenges

This story is bigger than one farm—it’s about the future of local food. As more small farms fight to survive, we all need to ask: Do we truly support local food, or just the idea of it?

🎧 Listen now and join the conversation!

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Post-Release Note: A neighbor of Vernon Family Farm, who prefers to remain nameless at this time, reached out to dispute some of the information shared in this episode and to share some information that was not mentioned. I invited them to be a guest on the podcast to tell their own story, but for now, they would prefer not to. They may in the future. They did ask that I share this article that portrays at least a part of the story they shared with me. Remember, every story has at least two sides.

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