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Farm Happenings at Tumbling Shoals Farm
Farm Happenings for November 19, 2019: The final fall harvest share
Thank you so much for helping us make 2019 the best season ever! What a fantastic way to close out a decade! We took the leap together into the customized harvest share and grew it together into a wild success. I know we've learned a lot and you probably have too. We'll be working with1 read more »
Farm Happenings: correction on the Thanksgiving confusion
I created a bunch of confusion for no reason over the Thanksgiving delivery! Turns out, there's an extra week before Thanksgiving this year, so the last share of the ten week fall share season is the week before Thanksgiving! I believe we thought Thanksgiving was the 21st when we set this up for 101 read more »
Farm Happenings for November 5, 2019:The season of losing focus
...And sometimes we just play ping pong in late October
Have you ever trained for a marathon? How long does it take? How long do they have to maintain the focus and motivation required to pull it off? Because it seems like my focus fades sometime in October every year. Not t1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 29, 2019: LOL
Enjoy this amusing "face" in the smashed butternut squash:)
Welcome new members! Here's Shiloh waxing poetic:
I read this the other day: “How wonderful is it that we laugh because our bodies cannot contain the joy”. I love to laugh. Who doesn’t? I love the random acts1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 22, 2019: The Goodbye Season
The frost is coming soon. It’s hard to believe it was 100° just two weeks ago, and now we’re saying goodbye to summer crops and turning our heads forward to carrots and cauliflower and winter hats and freezing fingers. We’ve said goodbye to half of our farmily. We&1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 15, 2019
It’s just that season. The one where all the impossible task lists shrink to questions of whether or not we have enough work for everyone (we do). The one where naps seem like more of a possibility. The one where the most pressing issue is what to be for Halloween. It&1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 8, 2019
I want to excuse my sentence with an apology for being “master of the obvious”, however, it is not at all obvious that it is October 1st today. I mean, huh? I try really hard not to complain about the heat so that I don’t feel bad complaining about the cold, and 1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 1, 2019: Autumn
And so we arrive, floating on the gentle evening breezes of late September, into autumn. The days are layered into neat stacks of seasons with the mornings bundled in the sweatshirts and winter hats of late winter, the mid-days coated in the sweat of summer, and the evenings a slow unfurling1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 24, 2019: Living in the preservation moment
I hear a lot about living in the moment. And complaints about how cell phones and their evolution into miniature computers has none of us living in the moment. To be fair, I do think my “device” has changed my brain a little bit. I mean, all of my lists are kept there, and m1 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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