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Farm Happenings at Tumbling Shoals Farm
Farm Happenings for December 6, 2022
Just three more weeks of harvest shares before we switch gears here at the farm and start planting for 2023. We've actually already begun planting for 2023 in the greenhouse, but who's counting. Jason and Shiloh are knee deep in the season analysis and 2023 planning in between harvesting, was1 read more »
Farm Happenings for November 29, 2022
I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving! We sure appreciated the week off to visit our family in Pennsylvania. We even got a lovely hike/river scouting trip around Ohiopyle, which Sandi the dog thoroughly enjoyed. All in all, it was a lovely few days with family and now we're ready t1 read more »
Last share before Thanksgiving!
We will not be harvesting the week of Thanksgiving so that we and our crew can travel to be with our families on the holiday. So this is the last share distribution (Nov 15-19) before the holiday. We will return to regular share deliveries the week after Thanksgiving (Nov 28-Dec 3).&nbs1 read more »
Farm Happenings for November 8, 2022
Sandi (the dog) and I took the long way home from our delivery last week. Our deviant behavior was rewarded with a show-stopping autumn color display along a deserted foggy Blue Ridge Parkway. Luckily it was deserted, because I kept stopping in the middle of the road to exclaim, “1 read more »
Farm Happenings for November 1, 2022
The killing frost has come and gone and left us with glorious autumn afternoons. The time pressure on farm work lifts (deconstruction happens on a much more flexible schedule), and our attention turns domestic. The detritus of lasts litters our countertops: the last beans, the last tomatoes,1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 25, 2022
The heavy frost arrived right on schedule. We harvested every fruit of the warm season crops just before the frost to store in our cooler and distribute over the next couple of weeks. It's always bittersweet, the arrival of the killing frost. On the one hand, we have grown tired o1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 18, 2022
This is it. The great clash of seasons likely ends this week with significant freezes predicted for later next week. It's been a wild and enjoyable ride this fall, with many kitchen experiments using the ingredients of overlapping seasons. We'll be out scrambling to get the last of thos1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 11, 2022
Summer collides with fall here for the next couple of weeks with the triumphant return of salad mix and the last of the peppers. The result is a delicious and temporary tangle of seasons that I intend to fully enjoy.
This week's waxing poetic:
We stumbled past the equinox to stop in the solid1 read more »
Time to customize your fall harvest share!
Welcome to your fall harvest share! Things are looking pretty green around here these days, and the weather has been more than fall-like. We even had a super light patchy frost on Wednesday morning! It was still September! So just in case you are new to the harvest shares:
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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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