by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Aug 6, 2024 | Updates
Do you ever stop to think about what exactly it is that you value? I mean really dive deep into what makes you tick. It’s easier than one might imagine to lose track of these things in the slog of daily life. It takes a step back, a slowdown, an arresting of the...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Jul 23, 2024 | Updates
Many moons ago, when I was in college, my friend Kevin and I decided to go to the County Fair. We ate junk food, rode rides, played some carnival games, and laughed a lot. Turns out, for reasons I cannot recall, Kevin had a gift certificate (??) for a free palm...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Jul 17, 2024 | Updates
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 starts...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Jul 9, 2024 | Updates
No matter your news source, the news is bad. Really, news is inherently bad. I mean, what’s newsworthy of nothing happened today? That’s just the nature of the news beast. But that doesn’t mean we as individuals, can’t inspect the cracks for levity and joy. In fact,...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Jun 24, 2024 | Updates
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....