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Farm Happenings at Tumbling Shoals Farm
Farm Happenings for August 20, 2024
We've been preparing and planting fall fields like crazy and this week's weather finally makes that activity feel appropriate. (that picture is an entire field of fall carrots!). But we're still harvesting the abundant sweet peppers, eggplants and okra. Still trickling in some "wi1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 13, 2024
We survived this week's challenges of the precarious van that managed the stay upright, and Hurricane Debby's rains without calamity!
In the crops department heirloom tomatoes are beginning to fade as we get big into all sorts of peppers and eggplant. The first of the "winter" squash ma1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 6, 2024
We're entering back into the salad mix world, but we're not going to have beans for a while. The deer got in the fence and ate most of the next planting, then the rain set us back in planting for a couple of weeks, so we're going to have to wait for the next bean crop to come in. Meanwh1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 30, 2024
We're entering into a salad mix gap for a week or so. It's just something that tends to happen mid-summer, since lettuce is a cool season crop and we're trying to grow it in the full heat of summer. We do our best to make it think it's still the cool season with misters and weekly plant1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 23, 2024
This week's Blog:
When you get behind and begin the triage, (which always seems to happen in June/July on the farm) you start to ignore the periphery. But the periphery, like a child building a sand castle, grows over time until eventually it’s so impressed with itself that it sta1 read more »
Revised Farm Stand for July 19/20
I forgot to add Watauga Farmers Market to the Farm Stand pick up options, so here's my second attempt:) read more »
Farm Happenings for July 16, 2024
The early summer/late spring crops are acting like it's already August when they give up the ghost so we're hoping the peak summer/early fall crops that love August also act like it's already August. Last year, they complained that they didn't get enough heat. So we decided to appease t1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 10, 2024
This week on the farm has been a recovery week after last weekend's tomato-frying fiasco. The good news is that all of our field tomatoes are now beautifully trellised and we're starting to see the first pop of color on some of the heirlooms. Peppers are also coloring up wonderfully and will be hi1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 9, 2024
This week on the farm has been a recovery week after last weekend's tomato-frying fiasco. The good news is that all of our field tomatoes are now beautifully trellised and we're starting to see the first pop of color on some of the heirlooms. Peppers are also coloring up wonderfully and will be hit1 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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