by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Feb 6, 2025 | Updates
I was watching professional wrestling today (“wrastling”?). Insert comedic pause here to soak in the idea that I was watching professional wrestling. I mean, to be fair to your astonishment, I was actually watching a masterclass on economics, but the TV was playing...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Jan 30, 2025 | Updates
I overheard a guy at the gym the other morning say, as if in judgement, “some people just want to get up and come and go through the motions and not work hard”. I thought to myself, huh. Dragging oneself out of bed and coming here and going through the motions seems...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Jan 21, 2025 | Updates
When I first began my farming career, I thought farming was growing vegetables. It took me nearly twenty years to realize that farming is not so much growing vegetables, but growing relationships. Don’t get me wrong, we spend most of our days in the process of growing...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Dec 20, 2024 | Updates
As we near the new year, we begin to see a lot of reflection about the past year. Sometimes, it’s filled with joy, sometimes with heartbreak, and sometimes both. Like every season finale, our reflections are filled with gratitude, but this year’s gratitude is enhanced...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Dec 3, 2024 | Updates
The deep comfort of routine seeps back into my bones. If you don’t break it sometimes, the routine can feel monotonous. But absence makes the heart grow fonder, they say, and this is most true when it comes to steady beat of routine. Alarm goes off, dress and head to...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Nov 11, 2024 | Updates
Six weeks later and the devastation remains quite evident in Spruce Pine. The roads are mostly open-at least one lane of the main roads-but businesses remain closed, it appears there is still no sewer (as evidenced by the hundreds of porta-potties everywhere), and...
