It’s encouraging, but not surprising, to hear a report that the Mill Spring Agricultural Center is operating in the black and continually growing.
If you have not been out to the ag center for an event, to shop for produce at the PolkFresh Market or simply to roam around and relish the spirit of an historic building’s loving restoration, you have not spent your time well in Polk County.
I moved from a larger metropolitan area where many a decrepit building stands. In their heydays, these buildings were majestic theaters, pinnacles of business and institutions in their own right. Unfortunately, few there have taken notice to prevent their crumbling and further degradation.
Seeing the careful facelifts the Mill Spring Agricultural Center has received – even over just the past year – is inspiring.
What’s even more inspiring is not the aesthetic improvements made to the building itself, but the atmosphere of entrepreneurship, creativity, and most importantly, community that once again springs forth from the building’s many offices and studios. Just imagine what this must mean to those who attended the Mill Spring school. Many of you don’t have to imagine because you were among those students and can feel the pride of seeing your schoolhouse continue to thrive – that is a lucky feeling indeed.
Great things are happening at the ag center and we all should be itching to be a part of them.
— Samantha Hurst, editor, Tryon Daily Bulletin