North Carolina’s Eric Henry has been swimming against the current for more than 40 years to run a U.S. cotton clothing manufacturing and design label using cotton grown sustainably in the region. In the process, he’s established relationships with farmer-suppliers whose operations Henry touts via QR codes on the clothing labels. The journey for Henry in the textile business began in 1978, when he cofounded a T-shirt company while still a student studying agriculture at North Carolina State University.
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