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Farm Happenings at Tumbling Shoals Farm
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 »
Farm Happenings for June 11, 2024
I took a quick trip west to reconnect with some old friends and thought I'd check out some farmers markets while I'm here! Here's the Wednesday Boulder farmers market. They're a fair bit behind us in their season as we leave some cool season things behind and jump into summer squash and cucumbers! read more »
Farm Happenings for June 4, 2024
The good news is that the field cucumbers are starting to come in which means we'll have more and more cucumbers in the coming weeks and won't sell out every week. Also, the tomatoes are coming into better production so we should start having enough of those. The bad news is the sugar s1 read more »
Farm Happenings for May 28, 2024
We got through the gap in tomato production, so those are back this week but now we're dealing with a gap in cucumber production, which is always a challenge with the early cukes in the greenhouse. Tomatoes were more of a surprise, but things are looking up now. Luckily, it won't be lon1 read more »
Farm Happenings for May 21, 2024
This week's blog:
I made a point a few years ago to prioritize fun. If anyone asks, I’ll maintain that this is a very good idea. The only problem is that by prioritizing fun doesn’t always mean that something less fun has to go away. Not that farming is not fun, it def1 read more »
Farm Happenings for May 14, 2024
We're in a wee bit of a wet period at the moment. So moody skies, rain forest-esque views, and lots and lots of mud. This is why we plant our most rain sensitive crops underneath "umbrellas", and have grassed waterways all over the farm moving water around fields, but still there's a lo1 read more »
Farm Happenings for May 7, 2024
I am on a whirlwind adventure in New Orleans to see the Rolling Stones ( and a few other bands while I'm briefly here) at Jazz Fest with one of my oldest friends who lives here. This is my airport fast food salad, which was of surprisingly not terrible quality?
A couple of notes: we are1 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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