LONGS — More than strawberry fields straddle the state line.

A family’s past and future, a landmark and one of the region’s original agritourism farms could be in the path of a highway extension.

“The worst case? The route they want would take everything, the fields, the market, our homes. Would we attempt to restructure and find other ways to provide food to the community? Would it work? Well, you got to try it to find out. It's not something I want to try,” Sallie Bellamy Lun said walking toward an heirloom pumpkin patch at Indigo Farms . “Our hearts desire to grow food for our community. When you’ve worked the soil, cared for the environment, it becomes spiritual.”

In a pair of adjacent fast-growing counties in two states filling with new residents, the need for new roads has bee

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