Back to farm profile
Farm Happenings at Tumbling Shoals Farm
Farm Happenings for October 26, 2021
I read this the other day: “How wonderful is it that we laugh because our bodies cannot contain the joy”. I love to laugh. Who doesn’t? I love the random acts of funny that people create just for the amusement of others. This, I believe, is the only true altruism1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 19, 2021
Apologies for the virtual farm stand being offline for the last few weeks. A change in the system had me missing a step to open the farm stand and I just got the instructions! But we're back! read more »
Farm Happenings for October 19, 2021
Summer has been determined to hold on, I'm still in transition with my box of winter clothes half unpacked with a lingering need for summer clothes. It's the season of piles of clothes shed as the sun warms the valley. Also, the "last chance" for summer crop hold-outs as we head into th1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 12, 2021
Someone recently pointed out that we are never quite done becoming. That we are not just one “thing”. For so long I’ve clung to the identity of “farmer”, it never really occurred to me that I have already been other things, and that I still have yet to beco1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 5, 2021
Welcome to your Fall harvest share! In case you're new to the harvest share program, here's a couple of snippets to help you:
Make sure you set your preferences so that your share is already customized when you receive your Sunday email: https://harvie.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360021 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 28, 2021
This is the final week of the main season CSA--a bittersweet moment for all of us. On the one hand, we've been going hard since March, and the end of the main season signals a little bit lighter load, but it also means the dissipation of the farmily and seeing all your smiling faces (unless,1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 21, 2021
There’s an art to the living of an ordinary life—a beauty in the mundane. The enlightened acknowledgement that you’ll never move mountains or part seas, that you don’t matter in the grand scheme of things, but that your importance lies in those immediately around you.&1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 14, 2021
Building organic matter with the amazing cover crop in this fallow field so it's ready to produce food for us next season!
Just two more weeks in the main season left after this week. This is bittersweet for us. It means the farmily shrinks to 5, which is always sad. It also means1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 7, 2021
Welcome to the last month of the main season! You have successfully completed 18 weeks of eating fresh local organic veggies! Do you feel good? If you're not already signed up for a fall share, now is the time! We don't grow as much in the fall so we actually limit our share numbe1 read more »
About the farm
Nestled in the bucolic valley where Tumbling Shoals Creek meanders beneath the shadow of Bullhead Mountain in beautiful Wilkes County, NC, Tumbling Shoals Farm is a diverse certified organic vegetable and fruit farm.
Go to farm profile