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Farm Happenings at Tumbling Shoals Farm
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 »
Farm Happenings for July 2, 2024
If every season must have a disaster, then we have arrived at this season’s disaster. While we were all away working farmers markets on Saturday, we had a day long power outage that ceased the operation of the tomato/cucumber greenhouse ventilation during a heat wave. The greenhouse procee1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 25, 2024
Happy official summer y'all! The farm seasons are slowly transitioning to heat loving crops. It won't be long before sweet Italian peppers ripen, and then heirloom tomatoes and eggplant and okra. We got lucky again this year with Creeksong Farm's sugar snap peas since our crop was1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 18, 2024
It was as if North Carolina wanted to remind me how beautiful she is, since I had been traveling last week in Colorado, which boasts of dramatic beauty. And so I arrived to the scene on the farm to welcome me home. While it is nice to travel and reconnect with old friends and experience1 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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