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Farm Happenings at Tumbling Shoals Farm
Farm Happenings for August 31, 2021
The weight of the world (or other farm vehicle) cracked this scale, but you know what? It still functions! Minus the display. How's that for resilience.
July and August are always the peak of busy in farm life for us and others like us. We’ve been going hard since May and are start1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 24, 2021
Local pastured poultry is hard to find, but one of our neighbors, Brooke, and her family are making it happen. If you're interested in purchasing a local, pasture-raised chicken (whole birds only, $5.50/lb), call Brook at 336-341-2223. It's still a limited supply, so don't hesitate if y1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 17, 2021
Well July and the first week or so of August were wild rides, but I appear to have most of my technology issues worked out (I've got access to email again!) and we're feeling great about being fully staffed again with Jeremy solidly on board. Just in time for peppers to take over our lives!&n1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 10, 2021
Welcome to your 15th week of eating fresh local organic seasonal produce! Enter Fishel Organics sweet corn from Ashe county! The season has been flying by for us here at the farm as we've been short staffed for a while now. But we welcomed Jeremy to the farmily this week and Kaiti1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 3, 2021
We’re quite familiar with grit. It’s everywhere-in our shoes, in our clothes, in our technology. There’s a layer of it in the tub after we shower. This is the nature of farming, I reckon. And so is (I’ve come to find out lately) the personality trait1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 27, 2021
Jason preparing fields for fall planting (already!!!) on this hazy hot day
We're in a couple week gap in salad mix production (sorry!). This, of course, was not the plan. But plans, well, they are but theoretical guidelines designed for everything going..well..as planned:) And thi1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 20, 2021
The barely managed chaos of the farm olympics that we hosted this past weekend
Good news y'all! I've got us the blueberry hook-up to make up for our lost blueberries! They're certified organic and Wilkes County grown! Because of the late frost, some of them have some brown scarrin1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 13, 2021
I’ve had this long standing philosophical belief that as the universe’s mode of reflecting upon itself, it’s our duty to show it a good time. read more »
Farm Happenings for July 6, 2021
Cory from New Life Farm is filling in with tomatoes while we wait for ours to kick into gear. Here's the farmily serenading them so they ripen a bit quicker.
The little book of stoicism is becoming quite the theme in my life lately. Stoic philosophy teaches embracing the impermanence of1 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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