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Tucker Shelton grew up in Hendersonville, North Carolina, and then studied and taught yoga around the world - Italy, New Zealand, Thailand - which made him realize there was something special about life in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Being here feels like I'm being hugged by the trees and the mountains," Shelton, 36, said. People care about the town, the area they live in."