Our story

 Nestled in the bucolic valley where Tumbling Shoals Creek meanders beneath the shadow of Bullhead Mountain in beautiful Wilkes County, Tumbling Shoals Farm is owned and operated by Shiloh Avery and Jason Roehrig.  The farm is transitional organic which means that we grow everything according to the USDA organic standards and will be certified in 2010.

We have been farming since returning from Peace Corps service as agriculture volunteers in Madagascar in 2002.  We began as partners at Gardens of Paradise in Pittsboro, NC, while Shiloh took sustainable agriculture courses at Central Carolina Community College and Jason began working with conventional farmers at RAFI-USA. 

In 2003, Melvin Whitfield invited us to farm an idle piece of land beside the horse pasture and the pond at his third generation farm in White Cross, NC.  After a couple of years here, we began to pine for Appalachia and a place to put down roots.  After three years of a rollercoaster ride of a land search we found this beautiful piece of land here in Millers Creek. 2010 marks our third year of production here and the expansion of our CSA.