Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and communities. Here in North Carolina, from the mountains to the coast, we are lucky to have fresh, clean food grown by sustainable farmers in our backyard. Unfortunately, these farms are neither utilized nor supported to the full extent they could be. Hundreds of thousands of people in the […]
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Sen. Kay Hagan tours the Minnie Jones Health Center
Beginning in a waiting room full of patients, Sen. Kay Hagan visited the Minnie Jones Health Center for an hour-long tour of the facility. Hagan visited the local community health center in honor of National Health Center Week. (Photos by Caitlin Byrd)
Senator Hagan visits small farmers at French Broad Co-Op Farmers Market
Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) took an hour or so Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 8, to visit with small farmers at the French Broad Food Co-op Farmer’s Market, at least partly in an attempt to reassure them that proposed federal legislation to tighten food safety standards will not affect them detrimentally, as some first feared. 
Photo by Jonathan Welch