Firefly Meadow Farmstead

01/23/2026

11/18/2024

Leave the leaves! 🍁🍂🍁

11/02/2024

Earthworms may not be the most exciting creatures, but their impact is huge. They improve soil structure, aerate the ground, and recycle nutrients, making them vital for healthy ecosystems and agriculture. By supporting biodiversity and producing nutrient-rich compost through vermicomposting, earthworms play a crucial role in maintaining soil fertility. Though they can occasionally contribute to soil erosion or minor crop damage, their benefits far outweigh the downsides. These “boring” animals are truly unsung heroes beneath our feet!

10/29/2024

Pollinator Friendly Yards

10/29/2024

Leeeave the leeeaves!

10/06/2024

The thing is, you can grow plants with MiracleGro. You can get a crop, look at your lush growth and think "I'm growing this life. Based on what I'm seeing here I have every reason to believe this garden is alive" But you'll also be weakening soil microbes, especially fungal hyphae. MiracleGro gets its green hue from copper sulfate, a fungicide. And without microbes and soil animals and lots of organic material, your soil won't support much plant life as soon as you take away the synthetic inputs, and you certainly won't get mushrooms. Excessively strong nitrogen fertilizers likewise have antimicrobial effects.

Bourgeois capitalist electoralism is MiracleGro. It can seem like you're helping the garden by using the MiracleGro because you don't know what healthy soil and healthy ecosystems look like. Meanwhile you're undermining the entire system's ability to maintain itself. So you can think you're working towards the same goal as someone utilizing regenerative practices, but you're working in the opposite direction.

Organizing to build dual power, on principles of mutual aid, direct democracy, decolonization, and the like, this is like growing regeneratively with integrated, perennial centered farm ecosystems. It's like promoting a robust decay cycle to cycle biomass and fertility through the system.

And trust me, that's a great way to get mushrooms.

10/05/2024

Dear Friends,

As we begin to comprehend the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, which so deeply affected our neighbors in Western North Carolina, my heart aches for the families, caregivers, and people living with dementia now facing overwhelming challenges. The storm may have passed, but the road to recovery is long—and for many, the needs are just beginning to surface.

At Dementia Alliance of North Carolina, we know that caregivers, especially those caring for older adults with dementia, are often the ones left to shoulder the heaviest burdens. In the aftermath of this disaster, they are now struggling to secure even the most basic necessities while also trying to support and protect the ones they love.

This is where we can come together. We’re launching a supply drive from now through October 11 to collect essential items for older adults, people living with dementia and their caregivers in the hardest-hit communities. Donations will go directly to the Diaper Bank of NC , Western NC Area Agencies on Aging and other local trusted partners who are working to get supplies into the hands of those who need them most.

I’ll be sharing updates as we continue to learn more, but for now, I hope you’ll consider supporting this drive or contributing directly to one of these trusted organizations in the relief effort. ​

Thank you for your compassion, your generosity, and your unwavering commitment to supporting our community in moments like this. Together, we can make sure no one feels alone in the aftermath of this storm.

To support the supply drive you may order directly from this amazon list (https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1FXXZPFXYB0JY?ref_=wl_share) or drop items off at our office from now until October 11 ( Monday-Friday) from 9:30 – 4:30. We are located at 9131 Anson Way, Suite 206 Raleigh, NC 27615.