Source: BLUERIDGE NOW, 6/11/17

The regulars arrive early. At a quarter ’til 3 p.m., customers start rolling into Little Rainbow Row parking lot for the Flat Rock Farmers Market. They run the gamut from long-haired college students to retired Florida transplants, but all have one thing they’re after: fresh, local produce. “The local food movement began in 2000,” according to Paul Shoemaker, owner of Holly Spring Farm in Mills River.

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