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Farm Happenings at Tumbling Shoals Farm
Farm Happenings for December 12, 2023
Happy Holidays y'all! Pardon the short newsletter as I'm visiting family in Michigan and doing this on my smarty pants phone and as I age, my arms just seem to be getting shorter?.
Just 2 more weeks of fall/winter share deliveries?. We're already planting for spring, and soon will need1 read more »
Farm Happenings for December 5, 2023
Welcome back! Hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving! We sure did, even with the travel. Here's this week's blog:
With darkness arriving at 5pm, it feels like the earth has slowed its spinning. My circadian rhythm has me, with nothing pressing to do in the dark, learning t1 read more »
Farm Happenings for November 28, 2023
Happy Thanksgiving!
Can you believe we're nearly to December? This year slid right by like greasy food from a plate. We're well into the planning session for next year as we deconstruct the farm from this year and care for the remaining crops inside our structures.
Good news! We got the sweet1 read more »
Farm Happenings for November 14, 2023
You may have noticed, but eggs are on sale! Stock up for your baking needs this week, because they'll go back up to their regular price after Thanksgiving.
This is the only share remaining before we take a week off for the Thanksgiving holiday. It was always too complicated trying to co1 read more »
Farm Happenings for November 7, 2023
Well, I guess we're more than officially into the fall/winter season now that we've frozen hard. You'll see the last stragglers of the things we picked before the first freeze in the availability, and the first of the carrots and celery are coming out of the fields this week. Enjoy your1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 31, 2023
Happy Halloween! Since I'm sending this before our Halloween revelry, I don't yet have pictures of our costumes, so enjoy this picture of Jason and I from our wedding 20 years ago. We're officially (in my book) in the throes of fall now. With all the celebrating of October (birthd1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 24, 2023
What a strange season it's been. We've been an average of 10 degrees cooler than "normal" all season long, yet here we are at nearly the end of October without a killing frost. Still harvesting Turmeric, beans, chiles, and even some okra as relics of summer, while the greens are excepti1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 17, 2023
October is the best month. (This is universal truth, not just my opinion). The low angle of the light caresses the asters and goldenrod dancing next to each other in a purple-yellow embrace. My birthday, our wedding anniversary, AND the most fun holiday all crammed into one fantastic mo1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 10, 2023
Picture of joy after fear
Well, it appears that it's time to get back out the box of winter warm things that I only just put away in July. This weekend, fall appears in earnest, but we're ready with lots of cool season things. We've covered the late planting of beans and probably will b1 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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