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Farm Happenings at Tumbling Shoals Farm
Farm Happenings for October 22, 2019: The Goodbye Season
The frost is coming soon. It’s hard to believe it was 100° just two weeks ago, and now we’re saying goodbye to summer crops and turning our heads forward to carrots and cauliflower and winter hats and freezing fingers. We’ve said goodbye to half of our farmily. We&1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 15, 2019
It’s just that season. The one where all the impossible task lists shrink to questions of whether or not we have enough work for everyone (we do). The one where naps seem like more of a possibility. The one where the most pressing issue is what to be for Halloween. It&1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 8, 2019
I want to excuse my sentence with an apology for being “master of the obvious”, however, it is not at all obvious that it is October 1st today. I mean, huh? I try really hard not to complain about the heat so that I don’t feel bad complaining about the cold, and 1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 1, 2019: Autumn
And so we arrive, floating on the gentle evening breezes of late September, into autumn. The days are layered into neat stacks of seasons with the mornings bundled in the sweatshirts and winter hats of late winter, the mid-days coated in the sweat of summer, and the evenings a slow unfurling1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 24, 2019: Living in the preservation moment
I hear a lot about living in the moment. And complaints about how cell phones and their evolution into miniature computers has none of us living in the moment. To be fair, I do think my “device” has changed my brain a little bit. I mean, all of my lists are kept there, and m1 read more »
Welcome new members! Farm Happenings for September 17, 2019
That picture is your farmers (minus Jason) posing for an awkward prom picture at farm prom last weeked:)
Welcome to those of you just joining us for fall! With temps in the high 90s, it's difficult to call this fall, but we're expecting a cool-down any minute. I think this is third or f1 read more »
Last week of the main season harvest shares:(
How did we get here? The final main season harvest share!? When our production shrinks a bit and also our farmily. When we begin the first bits of "destruction season". When the nights cool down enough to open windows and sleep beneath a blanket. Somehow, in the blink1 read more »
Time to sign up for the fall shares and other musings
Gah! It's September! How did this happen? Only 1 more week of the main season harvest share:( So...if you haven't already, now is the time to sign up for a fall share before we get filled up (we don't grow as much in the fall so we don't have as many shares available and they tend to se1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 27, 2019
Finally the sweet corn that we've been waiting all summer for! Just in time for labor day! Still in a lull in tomato production though.
When it’s cold in the winter, and we are tucked safely indoors with the heat and the hot chocolate and the pretty Christmas lights, it’s easy to1 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.
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