Local Organic: Food Rhetorics and Community Writing for Impact (Utah State University Press, 2025) explores ways to collaboratively build resilient local food systems and coalitions across disciplines and communities. Based on more than a decade of research, teaching, writing, and project-building with undergraduate writing students and project partners, author Veronica House theorizes how work to encourage local community-based writing becomes an ecological thread connecting things, ideas, and people. Local Organic offers writing and rhetoric faculty and graduate students an ecological methodology to produce, teach, and theorize writing to help communities engage with a wide array of social issues and to work toward individual and community-level impacts. House is an associate professor of the practice in the Boston College English Department and director of BC’s Writing Center.