Alexis Lathem is an award-winning essayist, poet, and journalist, and the author of Lambs in Winter: Sketches of a Vermont Life through Seasons of Change (University of Massachusetts Press, 2025) and three poetry collections. She has received an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, a Black Earth Institute Fellowship, and other awards. As a journalist, she has covered farming and energy issues, particularly resource conflicts involving Indigenous nations and hydroelectric development. She is the former Communications Director at Rural Vermont, a small-farm advocacy organization.
‘The countryside cannot be made a sacrifice zone for the city’: Coming home to part-time farming – book excerpt
Cities cannot feed themselves, thus people who live in cities will be forever detached from the problems that come with extracting the resources they depend on and producing the food they eat.
October 2, 2026
