Arion Thiboumery isn’t a big-city guy. The California native earned his doctorate in sustainable agriculture and rural development. So it’s by design that he’s landed in a small Vermont town that’s seen better days. “Let’s just put it like this. We’re in the middle of nowhere,” says Thiboumery, co-owner of Vermont Packinghouse – one of the latest bright spots in a slumping economy that’s never seemed to recover here. “But within four hours’ drive of here there’s 50 million people. Which means there is refrigerated freight going out of Vermont every single day to New York. It’s the largest most affluent metro market in this country.”

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