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....
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | May 27, 2024 | Updates
Sometimes the rest of the world, or at least certain people in it, can feel very far away from things we understand. A friend told me the other day that they have started with the very basic commonalities in others such as, “we’ve all got hair!” I remembered this the...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | May 20, 2024 | Updates
There is an old Ani DiFranco song lyric: “the butter melts out of habit, the toast isn’t even warm”, that’s been playing on repeat in my head since last Wednesday. Wednesdays are one of the wake-up-at-stupid-o’clock-go-go-go long days that begin early and end late....
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | May 13, 2024 | Updates
I made a point a few years ago to prioritize fun. If anyone asks, I’ll maintain that this is a very good idea. The only problem is that by prioritizing fun doesn’t always mean that something less fun has to go away. Not that farming is not fun, it definitely is, but...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Apr 22, 2024 | Updates
This weekend at the main season opening of the Hickory Farmers Market, a dad bought an armful of irises from which his young children plucked stems one by one and ran around giving them to people—mostly strangers. The young son, at one point, said something to his dad...
