Full Moon Farm

03/24/2026

Let's explore the magical realm of mushrooms! Join us for an life skills workshop about mushrooom inoculation, identification and celebration.

We will "plug" white oak logs with Shiitake spores and each person can go home with a small log to grow their own edible mushrooms. Julie Mullis is our expert facilitator and has 25 years of exploring the fungal realm both wild and cultivated. This is a great hands on learning experience, bring a friend!

Next, we will go for a short mushroom hike searching for wild morels, turkey tails, bird's nests and who knows what else 🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫

Sunday April 12 12-4PM
141 Rhymer Branch Rd
Deep Gap NC

Limited spots - register on our website event page or at the LINK in bio.

www.fullmoonfarmcollective.org/events

03/11/2026

Did you know we make our own compost?

The main ingredients are horse manure and garden waste. Sometimes wood chips get added but rarely do we need more carbon due to the balanced horse manure ratio. Our small tractor handles the job nicely and we flip anywhere from every two weeks to four weeks depending on weather and work load.

The third photo shows finished compost and the fourth photo shows garden bed soil. Both have great tilth which is one of those soil qualities you just fall in love with after years of caring for the land. Hard to explain but you know it when you feel it ❤️
a.dcomposting provided restaurant waste for our compost but weve had to move away from that due to our location constraints. If you want to contribute to the Boone based compost business and send your scraps there, check them out !

03/02/2026

We love having folks out to garden, build, and create! Volunteering with our charity farm means helping with meaningful tasks that bring more beauty and abundance to our community.

Every Wednesday 9AM - 12PM you can join us this Spring to get the garden prepped for crops to grow food for area food pantries!

If you'd like to get on our volunteer email list, message [email protected] ☀️

02/25/2026

This workshop is all about Connection and Presence with our equine friends at Full Moon Farm. All ages and abilities are welcome for a cool Spring day in the field!

Horses naturally teach us both Connection and Presence due to their herd instincts and co-evolution with humans for millenia. Did you know horses can hear your heartbeat from 4 feet away!? That alone tunes them into our emotional state and requires us humans to be mindful and present on a deeper level. We will have both group and individual exercises with the horses, facilitated by Kara Dodson.

Go to the event link in bio to register and donate to attend. We are limited to 10 spots so don't procrastinate! It is a sliding scale fee of $0-$50 to allow for diveree attendance. Message us with any questions and we hope to see you March 15!

02/20/2026

We’ve got Spring Workshops lining up and we hope you can join us!

March 15 we will have an open workshop “Healing with the Horses” to bring you closer to Connection and Presence with our equine friends.

April 5 there will be a free Ecotherapy Workshop for Women and Transwomen participants focusing on Wellbeing and Land Care.

Mid April (Date TBD) we will have a Mushroom Day exploring how to inoculate logs with mushroom spores, foraging in the woods, and fungal power in the garden.

More details coming soon! Contact us with any questions or suggestions :) We love hearing from our Community!

Registration is open for the Healing with Horses on our events page 🐴 www.fullmoonfarmcollective.org/events

02/06/2026

🐴 Linus, Lucy, Onyx, and Kai feel the love from all the Boone businesses who donated to support the farm!

Root & Rise is a community fundraiser with music, art, and joyful communion to celebrate diversity and racial equity in Boone. Sparked by the response to the hateful, racist sign left on our farm, this is the small town solidarity we all stand behind!

A special thank you to our donors:
Boone Realty














It’s not too late to add your business to the sponsorship list… contact us directly or email [email protected] 🥬

01/08/2026

Thank you for covering the hate crime committed at our farm. While we continue to secure our land, homes, and work place we are maintaining privacy around the investigation.

A statement from Tommy Lee in the article:

“Let me be the first to say that I know who I am, and I know where I am,” Lee said. “I have always understood that my daily existence as a Black man living in a very rural area of WNC has always come with aspects of danger, bigotry and ignorance. Although it’s a mind alert that I live with, I make it a point to look out for signs in certain areas because I know that racism and reason do not go hand in hand. The vast majority of my neighbors who were once strangers have become good friends or at the least a smile and a wave as they pass by. I’ve sat with a few of them many times on their porch and shared stories, tools, and bbq as the biggest Confederate flags and ‘other’ flags wave proudly in their yards. Despite the things we don’t agree on or our different backgrounds, we have all made an unspoken agreement to respect each other, look out for one another, support each other, and be good neighbors.”

“What they hoped to achieve is fear, intimidation and mistrust. We are fresh out of all three! It’s done quite the opposite,” Lee said. “Our friends around Watauga and from different parts of the country and internationally have shown up with support and solidarity to help us. Myself and our team at Full Moon Farm Collective are beyond resilient and we handle things like this with compassion. We look to our community, including law enforcement, to be fully committed and invested in protecting our people, animals and property.”

According to (Kara) Dodson, this is not the first time something like this has happened. In December 2022, someone had spray-painted “KKK BL-S” on the corner of the road on which the farm is located.

12/29/2025

As a Collective, we are addressing real racism and hatred that has been directed towards members of our Full Moon Farm family. On Dec 27, 2025 we found a sign full of hateful rhetoric and threats on the farm property, propped against a flatbed trailer. The photo of this sign is included in this post. All four tires on the trailer were slashed.

It is important for us to speak publicly against racism and violence. We have received an overwhelming amount of support and love from neighbors, friends, and comrades far and wide. We are pursuing security measures and seeking answers while maintaining our privacy until this conflict is resolved.

We hope the Watauga County Sheriff’s Department will provide us more aid in this effort. So far they have not agreed to take fingerprints of the hateful sign. We hope this position changes. It is not just our farm members safety but also the protection of our neighbors in Triplett that is our focus.

We will keep our community informed as long as we feel safe sharing information. If you would like to support us please contact us directly.

Thank you to everyone who has helped so far. Confrontations like this are part of the long road to peace and justice that we all desire to build.

12/02/2025

Today is Giving Tuesday — a national day much like Black Friday but instead of buying for yourself it’s a chance to give back to your community! Your financial support of our new charity is crucial at a time when social services are weakened and direct community support is the first line of aid. We are proud of big accomplishments in 2025 - mostly funded through grassroots donations! Help us make 2026 even more successful

Donate at

Support our mission to to grow and donate organically grown food for community members who lack access, create beautiful healing spaces, and serve as a learning organization dedicated to teaching life skills. We operate a 26 acre farm to grow 10,000 pounds of vegetables and fruits to local food bank

12/02/2025

Our nonprofit farm is officially one year old! Celebrate with us and donate for Giving Tuesday to ensure we have an impactful 2026 🔥

Donate at Link in Bio or fullmoonfarmcollective.org/givingtuesday

Big Highlights from 2025:

🍅 15,000 pounds of organically grown produce delivered to 7 food pantries covering 7 counties

🌞 6 Ecotherapy Workshops hosted on the Land bringing healing + connection for our Community

🐴 Breaking ground on our new horse barn to provide Equine Therapy in 2026

🌻 Starting a new barn mural by local artist to celebrate Beauty + Nature and support Creative Power

We are proud of the big waves our small team has made to bring us closer to our organizational vision :
a community inspired and empowered to grow food, create art and beauty, and heal and grow collectively with spiritual resilience for generations to come.

Today, we need your help to make this vision possible in 2026. Funds are low as we build our strength in the world of grants, donors, and events. Your support goes far for a small, efficient organization like ours! Folks who donate over $150 will receive honey from the farm and a *rare* Full Moon Farm tshirt!

Design credit to Basil Banuelos and their Appalachian State University Client Collab student team

11/11/2025

Big harvests could not have happened without volunteers! We are estimating 3,000 lbs of veggies were harvested between Sept and Nov. And all of this good food is distributed by our partners .a.r.m.cafe and to feed neighbors who need food and meal assistance.

One interesting nugget is that many volunteers have previously or currently use food assistance like SNAP or food pantries. As a culture we MUST remove the stigma around seeking assistance, including free food and meals. The fact that folks want to pay it forward while also needing assistance proves that we must see the humanity in everyone. Real community solidarity is acting in the spirit of dignity and justice…. Even when it comes to growing, harvesting and sharing good food.

Forward together 🌝