Done in collaboration with NC Agromedicine Institute. Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is a national program that employs a 8-hour training to teach a 5-step tool to identify and respond to signs of mental illness, substance use, and mental health crisis. MHFA provides signs and symptoms of mental illness, how to help, and training on

Growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms at home is easy! Inoculating (plugging) logs with mushroom spawn is a great way to get started. Many mushroom species love to grow on trees naturally. The easiest way to simulate this natural relationship is to inoculate cut logs with mushroom spawn. This is a low-tech, no waste, regenerative way

What are your kiddos doing after school this Spring? Are they wild, unhinged muddy monsters once they get home? Are they glued to a tablet when they hit the carpool lane? Sounds like Firefly Valley’s Pottery Class here on the farm by artist Ona is what they need- let’s play in the mud, be outside

Join us for our 6-part Business of Farming Series Join us for this 6-week series designed for new and beginning farmers who want to explore their options in farming, ranching, and agriculture. In this program, we’ll help you cultivate a strategic plan to validate your goals and engage with a community of agripreneurs to strengthen

This class will cover what to grow, how to grow it, and how to troubleshoot. We will talk about garden varieties that do well in the cool evenings and wet mornings in the mountains of WNC. The class will dive deep into how to cultivate healthy soils to encourage healthy plants and how to use

What are your kiddos doing after school this Spring? Are they wild, unhinged muddy monsters once they get home? Are they glued to a tablet when they hit the carpool lane? Sounds like Firefly Valley’s Pottery Class here on the farm by artist Ona is what they need- let’s play in the mud, be outside

Join us for our 6-part Business of Farming Series Join us for this 6-week series designed for new and beginning farmers who want to explore their options in farming, ranching, and agriculture. In this program, we’ll help you cultivate a strategic plan to validate your goals and engage with a community of agripreneurs to strengthen

What are your kiddos doing after school this Spring? Are they wild, unhinged muddy monsters once they get home? Are they glued to a tablet when they hit the carpool lane? Sounds like Firefly Valley’s Pottery Class here on the farm by artist Ona is what they need- let’s play in the mud, be outside

Join us for our 6-part Business of Farming Series Join us for this 6-week series designed for new and beginning farmers who want to explore their options in farming, ranching, and agriculture. In this program, we’ll help you cultivate a strategic plan to validate your goals and engage with a community of agripreneurs to strengthen

Want to know more about the SDBII Farm Grants that are currently open for operational dairy farms in NC and the greater Southeast? The final opportunity is coming up on Wednesday, May 3, at the WNC Livestock Center in Canton, NC from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Focus topics for this event include precision technology

What are your kiddos doing after school this Spring? Are they wild, unhinged muddy monsters once they get home? Are they glued to a tablet when they hit the carpool lane? Sounds like Firefly Valley’s Pottery Class here on the farm by artist Ona is what they need- let’s play in the mud, be outside

Join us for our 6-part Business of Farming Series Join us for this 6-week series designed for new and beginning farmers who want to explore their options in farming, ranching, and agriculture. In this program, we’ll help you cultivate a strategic plan to validate your goals and engage with a community of agripreneurs to strengthen