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Farm Happenings at Tumbling Shoals Farm
Farm Happenings for August 20, 2019
We're still in hot pursuit of organic sweet corn. They are now telling us the end of August. I haven't eaten sweet corn all summer because I was counting on this sweet corn. Alas. Sigh.
The story on tomatoes: Well, some of our earlier neglect when we were short staffed1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 13, 2019
As you probably already know, one of my favorite activities is to float the river. Just ooze along wherever the lazy current takes you. You’ve made a plan, of sorts, in that you placed a vehicle at the take out and then put in somewhere up river, but you can’t do much about1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 6, 2019
It’s fiction season. We’re six months into the heavy workload, things are heating up, and we’re about to break. Emphasis on “about to” (we go through this every year, and we never break). But this time of year calls for some good old fantasy fiction.1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 30, 2019
Our ice machine is on the fritz. It’s been on the fritz for at least a year. I know, I know, “first world problems”. It’s true. But ice is critical to my hydration. If the water isn’t cold, I don’t drink it. So an ice machine,1 read more »
Sweat is sexy
Do you remember the “sweat is sexy” commercials? There are the Hollywood faces and bodies “working out” and “sweating”. We look exactly like that. I mean, just add a little dirt, okay add a lot of dirt sticking to the sweat, and we look exactly1 read more »
The Art of things left undone
We have this sense in this country that if we just work harder, we will get ahead. It’s the essence of the American Dream. What nobody tells you is that sometimes working harder is just not enough. You have to work harder doing the right things! You have to work smarte1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 9, 2019
July has arrived in relatively good humor, but with a note of ferocity. Like it’s namesake, Julius Caesar, July threatens an unsanctioned war upon us. Every day, the weather prediction is similar: highs in the high 80s. Also every day, several degrees are added to that. 1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 2, 2019
I stop at Dunkin Donuts on my delivery route on Wednesdays. Shhhhhh. That’s just between you and me. Organic farmer at Dunkin Donuts, I know. But there’s this guy that works there on Wednesday mornings who is an inspiration.
Vicki at Café 1841 in Lenoir pu1 read more »
Noticing: Farm happenings June 25
In an interview today, I was asked about my connection to the land and whether it has changed over the years. Immediately, the Old Crow Medicine Show song “Take ‘em Away” popped into my head: “…land that I love is the land that I’m workin’, but it&rs1 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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