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Farm Happenings at Tumbling Shoals Farm
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 »
Farm Happenings for October 3, 2023
Welcome to the first fall/winter share! The orb weavers have begun to weave, their dew encrusted webs glisten in the low morning sunlight. It's time to get back out the long johns and sweaters, and to begin the long process of deconstruction of the long term summer crops and the dissipation o1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 12, 2023
The intense colors of summer slowly transition into the greens of autumn. Funny to think as the leaves start to think about their intense coloring, our food switches back to green intensive. Don't worry though, we've still got a few colorful weeks. Our main season runs through Sep1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 5, 2023
Whoa! Idalia brought along fall weather like we're headed into October, not September! The humans are happy; the summer heat loving crops, not so much. It's been a generally cooler summer for us here (again, happy humans, slow producing summer crops). But last week's mini he1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 29, 2023
This week's Blog: The Costume Manifest
My costume suitcase (doesn’t everyone have one?) is overflowing with delights. I opened it up yesterday to search for last year’s snake skin leggings from our WWE costumes and out tumbled some “jorts” (I just learned that word) an1 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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