South Carolina family finds new life with Mountain Home business

John and April Bingham pose for a photo inside of their store. The couple started the White River Trading Company after moving to Mountain Home five years ago.

When John and April Bingham still left their home in South Carolina for a new everyday living in Mountain Dwelling, Arkansas, they did not know what to count on.  

The pair, who had barely managed to survive the monetary crisis of 2008, was moving nearer to April’s mother, Judy Mahaney, proprietor of Recall Me Quilt & Material Shop.  

What followed would be a five-year journey into entrepreneurship that would see the total Bingham household rally all over their new enterprise and way of daily life. 

Judy Mahaney, owner of Remember Me Quilt & Fabric Shop, watches her grandson, Blake Bingham, work on a stuffed animal during her Kids Kamp. Mahaney gave the Bingham's her embroidery business after they moved to Mountain Home.

“We had listened to that it was hard to discover work right here, so mom and dad, they explained, you know what, the embroidery organization is acquiring as well busy for us, we want to concentrate on the quilt shop,” claimed April Bingham. “So, they desired to know if we preferred to obtain the machines and variety of start off a point here.” 

Alongside with their a few youngsters, the couple fashioned the White River Trading Firm out of the again of Mahaney’s quilt store and started to develop t-shirts, hats, and patches that captured the essence of Mountain Property and the Ozarks.  

April and John did not end at creating shirts. They also concentrated on instilling an entrepreneurial spirit into their sons Caleb, Dawson, and Blake.  

A photo of Blake Bingham and his snow cone corner. Blake, the youngest of the Bingham children, has taken to starting small businesses of his own as a way to make money for toys.

“One day, I walked out to the checkout place to see exactly where Blake is, and he’s out at the checkout with these a few older women, and they have their wrists out,” April claimed. “They’re standing appropriate subsequent to each other with their wrists out, and they had a paper towel tied to their wrist. And I say, what’s going on? And the girl claimed he’s producing us paper towel bracelets. Blake appeared at me and mentioned, ‘they’re only a greenback every single, mom.’”