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Farm Happenings at Tumbling Shoals Farm
Farm Happenings for December 17, 2024
As we enjoy our final harvest share delivery, the farmily at Tumbling Shoals Farm would like to thank you for sticking with us through drought (remember that!?), the great tomato disaster, and flood. It has been a challenging year with plenty of growing pains to add to the mix, but the farmil1 read more »
Farm Happenings for December 10, 2024
I really want to use the word "penultimate". But last year, when I used that word for the second to last share of the season, everyone read "ultimate" and thought it was the last share, so...welcome to the second to the last share of the season! Big changes are underfoot here at the far1 read more »
Farm Happenings for December 3, 2024
Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!
I asked the crew as they were bunching carrots what to write to you here and they said:
"We don't have a carrot all other than putting food on your tables!"
"We really carrot about our CSA members"
"Hope y'all veg out on Thanksgiving!"
You have some extra time to custom1 read more »
Farm Happenings for November 22, 2024
Reminder that there will be no share deliveries next week. Most of our crew hails from further afield and so we like for everyone to be able to travel to their families for the holidays, which means that very few of us will be around to harvest, wash, and pack and so we skip next week (Novemb1 read more »
Farm Happenings for November 19, 2024
Six weeks later and the devastation remains quite evident in Spruce Pine. The roads are mostly open-at least one lane of the main roads-but businesses remain closed, it appears there is still no sewer (as evidenced by the hundreds of porta-potties everywhere), and it’s going to take a l1 read more »
Farm Happenings for November 12, 2024
I'm writing to you from an 80 degree November day. If the flood wouldn't have taken out the sweet peppers, we'd probably be thinking about "mechanical" frost by now, but we can handle the chiles that are still producing, even if it's strange to harvest a chile in November. We finished a1 read more »
Farm Happenings for November 5, 2024
Happy Halloween!
Halloween is my favorite "holiday". It is the one time of year where more people "embrace the silly" than any other time of year. Where strangers knock on each others door and instead of calling the police, we welcome them and give them gifts. I just love the whol1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 29, 2024
What a gorgeous week! The leaves are beginning to show off a little, sweatshirts are shed by noon, power and water is returning to more and more people in the mountains (we still have a long recovery to go, but it's marginally better, which is something), and Jason and I are celebrating our 21 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 22, 2024
The new packing shed construction progressing.
The low angle of the sun makes even the piles of sand left from Helene look beautiful. The leaves here are beginning to show signs of changing. We managed not to frost Wednesday night, and if we make it through Thursday night without a fros1 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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