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Farm Happenings at Tumbling Shoals Farm
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 »
Farm Happenings for October 15, 2024
A photo of Jeff (the patriarch-first generation), Will (the son-second generation), and Rose (third generation) of Creeksong Farm
Our fall crops were spared by the flooding. It's just pure luck that they just happened to be planted on higher ground further away from the creek that overflowed1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 8, 2024
I don't know what to say y'all, except thanks for your outpouring of support and concern. Our farm was relatively unscathed. It felt very dramatic while it was happening as it was the worst flooding we've seen, but it left structures in tact and most of the fields and didn't get high en1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 4, 2024
We've begun digging out from under Helene's mess, but the farm is still here and we were relatively spared. We still don't have power or internet, but we've been running our cooler with a generator and are expecting a larger generator to come today which will run the whole pack shed and green1 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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