Tracy tells me he likes talking to the people who work here, and they know each other by name. ![]() Country Life is a small health food store and restaurant, and I’m delighted to arrive at the top of their back stairs to a cozy and delicious-smelling kitchen with a wonderful-looking soup cooking on the stove. We have more luck finding parking in the lot behind Country Life Vegetarian. Tracy points out the beautiful view of Mount Monadnock from the top of this hill-the namesake of the region we’ve been exploring today. We drive up a beautiful winding hill and pull up next to a house where a loud dog greets us. While some of our customers have had large store rooms for us to unload into, the general store is a small community business with a little hallway in the back where we creatively stack boxes and bags of food until they’re ready to be processed by their staff.īefore our last leg of the journey, in Keene, we have a stop at Camp Glen Brook. We step out of the van and shed some layers-it’s starting to warm up. But first, we pull up to the back of the Harrisville General Store, which has a sizeable order from Food Connects today. On the drive over, Tracy and I bond over our love of knitting, and Tracy tells me I can poke my head into Harrisville Designs to check out their jaw-dropping fibercrafts shop before we leave town. We head back out on the road and travel through more of rural Southern New Hampshire, past a series of beautiful ponds until we emerge from the woods into beautiful, historic Harrisville-an old mill town straddling the end of Harrisville Pond. The community-based food system Food Connects works to build and support is much more personal than our mainstream one, even down to the way a small food hub treats its drivers. ![]() Our conversation leaves me with a lot to think about. His friend tells me that he’s under a lot of pressure. At Food Connects, we work to deliver food in a timely and efficient manner, but Tracy doesn’t have to worry that taking a pit stop or a snack break will anger his bosses or impact his pay for that day. This driver is busy unloading boxes from his truck and tells me about the differences between his work and Tracy’s. I find Tracy back outside talking to another delivery driver he’s befriended.
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