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Don't miss this week's Hendersonville Lightning. Read Story »
Tags: farming | History | Hendersonville Lightning | Flavor 1st | local authors | Josiah Johnson
Don't miss this week's Hendersonville Lightning! Read Story »
Tags: Flavor 1st | Kirby Johnson | President Trump | Donald Trump | 2020 presidential election
President Donald Trump visited Mills River on Monday, the first visit to Henderson County by a sitting president since George H.W. Bush campaigned at the N.C. Apple Festival in 1992. Here are photos of the visit. Read Story »
Tags: Flavor 1st | Kirby Johnson | Donald Trump | 2020 presidential election
MILLS RIVER —President Trump touted the Farmers to Families Food Box program and its Mills River partner, Flavor 1st Growers and Packers, on Monday, casting the initiative as an unprecedented innovation that has helped right an economy savaged by the coronavirus crisis. Read Story »
Tags: Flavor 1st | Kirby Johnson | Donald Trump | 2020 presidential election
MILLS RIVER — Kirby Johnson was planting green beans on his 550-acre farm in May when he got a call from the state Agriculture Department about a new federal program to feed the needy. He plunged into the program immediately, earning a visit from the nation's top farm official last month. Read Story »
Tags: Flavor 1st | Donald Trump | 2020 presidential election
These past few months have been difficult for many Americans, both economically and emotionally. Read Story »
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President Donald Trump plans to visit Flavor 1st in Mills River to highlight the administration's Farmers to Families Food Box program, the White House announced. Read Story »
Tags: Flavor 1st | Donald Trump | 2020 presidential election
MILLS RIVER — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said spending a morning with Kirby Johnson took him back to his days growing up on a farm. Read Story »
Tags: Flavor 1st | Kirby Johnson
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue will visit a large commercial vegetable grower in Mills River to highlight the agency's Farmers to Families Food Box Program. Read Story »
Tags: farming | Flavor 1st | Kirby Johnson
MILLS RIVER — They’re most often red, sometimes green, sometimes yellow. Sweet and juicy, they're grown in Henderson County and shipped up and down the Eastern Seaboard. Read Story »
Tags: farming | Flavor 1st | Kirby Johnson
MILLS RIVER — U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows told farmers whose crops have been wiped out by heavy rain and flooding that he has explored what kind of relief is available even as politics stalls the farm bill renewal. Read Story »
Tags: farming | U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows | Flavor 1st | Kirby Johnson | 2013 rainfall
MILLS RIVER — At the stops on a farm tour, workers toiled in the background. Read Story »
Tags: immigration | farming | Van Wingerden Greenhouses | Jason Davis | North River Farms | Flavor 1st | Kirby Johnson