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The all-natural power of Turkey Tail Mushrooms!

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TURKEY TAIL MUSHROOMS: (Trametes versicolor – pictured here growing at Half Hill Farm® in Woodbury, TN) have been used for centuries for better health & well-being with modern science validating its substantial health benefits.

Immunity – Turkey Tail mushrooms are used mostly for its immune-boosting polysaccharides (polysaccharide K and polysaccharide peptide) that enhance the immune functions of white blood cells. Polysaccharide K improves survival rates of patients with certain types of cancer when used as an adjunct therapy by inhibiting the growth of cancer cells and enhancing the body’s ability to fight cancer.

Gut-Health – The natural prebiotics found in turkey tail mushrooms help nourish beneficial bacteria in the gut for a stronger immune system and better digestion.

Inflammation – Turkey Tail mushrooms are also rich in antioxidants, which reduce inflammation and oxidative stress. This helps prevent damage to cells which lowers the risk of chronic diseases while promoting longevity.

You can take fully mature Turkey Tail mushrooms as an encapsulated powder. You can also decoct it into a tea or liquid dual extract which removes the indigestible chitinous biomass.

Half Hill Farm now on Amazon

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We are so excited to announce another way to purchase our mushroom dual extracts on Amazon! You can see all our products on our Amazon store page.

While you can always get a better deal on our website due to special deals and free shipping, Amazon is just another way to add convenience to your shopping experience and to introduce our unique, quality products to new customers.

Half Hill Farm offers the largest bottle size for liquid mushroom dual extracts and one of the best prices per ounce on Amazon. The biggest benefit with Amazon is being able to subscribe to monthly deliveries and keeping your card on file.

Here are the product listings on Amazon:

Thank you for continuing to make Half Hill Farm your home for better health and well being for more than 10 years!

Get 20% off our mushroom dual extracts throughout September!

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Celebrate the enduring power of mushrooms with 20% off your mushroom extract purchases throughout the month of September! Mushrooms have been used for centuries for better health & well being. As one of the planet’s oldest living things, mushrooms have evolved over eons of time and every imaginable condition to produce unique fungal compounds.

Tap into the wisdom of the ages with Half Hill Farm’s Turkey Tail, Lion’s Mane, Chaga, Red Reishi, Cordyceps, and Five Blend mushroom dual extracts. Our mushroom dual extracts come in 3.38oz and 6.76oz glass bottles. We only use fully mature organic and responsibly wildcrafted mushrooms for a quality our customers have come to love for a decade.

Take 20% off your purchase of our mushroom dual extracts using coupon code MUSHROOM20 at checkout. Offer valid September 1 – September 30, 2023.

All orders over $150 get automatic free USPS Priority shipping. All orders ship within 24 hours except weekends and holidays. We are forever grateful and humbled by your love and support over the past ten years. If you’ve purchased our mushroom dual extracts before, click here to leave a review on Google. Thank you!

Happy Winter Solstice 2022!

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WINTER SOLSTICE: Happy first day of Winter 2022 from all of us at Half Hill Farm. It’s the longest night of the year. The days only get longer and brighter from here, so hang in there!

Winter Solstice 2022 Mandala: (Sunflower, Rose of Sharon, Perilla, Foxtails, Broomsedge, Pine cone, Cedar)

Half Hill Farm: Celebrating 10 years!

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Christian and Vince (2013) – photo by BrassPenny Photography

10th ANNIVERSARY: All year we are reflecting on ten years of big dreams and big change at Half Hill Farm. A lot can happen in ten years, but one thing is true: life has a way of showing you the path forward in every challenge if your heart and mind are open to it.

We moved to Woodbury from Murfreesboro to build and open Short Mountain Distillery for the Kaufman brothers after helping change county law in 2010 by referendum to allow it. I had just quit my job producing evening news for a local television station in search of something with more meaning and purpose and found way more than I could have imagined.

It took 16 months to build the distillery but not nearly that long to be inspired enough by the community and country living to want to slightly change direction again to start our own farm.

It almost didn’t happen. We looked for months when we saw a “for sale by owner” sign on what appeared to be a heavily wooded property. When we drove up the first part of the driveway, we stopped and looked at each other and said we should leave before seeing anything more. Something about the entrance kept us away for months until we saw a listing that showed what we had missed. Luckily, it was still on the market, and we bought it!

When we moved to our new farm in 2012, a good friend opened our eyes to nature’s possibilities with a surprise find of a giant 9 lbs Maitake mushroom growing at the base of an old oak tree. It moved us toward growing mushrooms, but not nearly as seriously as life had in store.

We started our farm with selling our organic vegetables at our local farmers market, but everything changed when Vince’s mother was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. The farming side waned as we focused more on mushrooms and what they could do for her.

While her quality of life was dramatically improved, stage four eventually proved too difficult a challenge for Sandy. Her passing was hard, and we almost decided to stop farming when friends who needed our mushroom extracts encouraged us to keep going.

Over time, the word-of-mouth growth in demand for the mushroom extracts we made required us to move to a larger commercial kitchen we invited another new business to share. Very soon after, our new gut healthy beverage took off and we brought on a partner to get bigger space that has grown us into three retail stores.

Despite the growth, we are still based in our small hometown of Woodbury, TN. We are here because of help from a lot of friends and neighbors who believe in our vision. We still make our mushroom extracts with all organic ingredients and a monkish reverence in service to customers who need it. Because of stories of healing and personal transformation from our customers, we personally take the products every single day and will for life.

In the past ten years, we have gone from making our liquid mushroom dual extracts because no one else was to seeing a whole industry grow around what these mushrooms can do for people. We see what some get wrong and what some get right. We see companies making the most of it and companies with the same level of passion for better health & well being.

It’s exciting to see customers’ mushroom consciousness grow no matter how it happens. However you come to use mushrooms in your life, know that the roots of our dedication to better health & well being with mushrooms runs deep and is personal. Thank you for continuing to trust what we do and for choosing our farm’s products!

Shop our mushroom extracts and other products online, or visit our retail stores:

Wellness Emporium Murfreesboro Grand Opening July 29!

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Join our team of wellness advocates and the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce for our official grand opening Thursday July 29 from 4-6pm!

We’re giving away close to $1,000 in wellness products including several gift basket giveaways for those who attend, plus everything in the store is 10% off during the event. The first ten people who arrive from 4pm – 6pm will receive a free growler fill of Half Hill Farm’s probiotic craft kombucha and kefir sodas on tap! We will be giving away some of our most popular supplement brands including Buried Treasure, Ancient Nutrition and Vital Planet.

    

Sign up for our store newsletter and enter a chance to win one of several giveaways to subscribers as well. Representatives from Ancient Nutrition and Vital Planet will also be on hand to answer questions about their popular supplements.

Enjoy free samples of our farm’s craft probiotic kombucha and kefir sodas on tap. Learn more about who we are and the mushroom extracts, apple cider vinegar tonics, and other products we make. Speak with our wellness advocates about our wide selection of quality supplements.

Wellness Emporium Murfreesboro is located at the corner of East Main + Middle Tennessee BLVD next to MTSU between Jimmy John’s and the Boulevard Restaurant!

Half Hill Farm’s Mushroom Dual Extracts – new packaging, same quality and care!

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MUSHROOM EXTRACTS: When we created our farm’s popular mushroom dual extracts several years ago, we started by sparing no expense on quality because we created it for a very special member of our family battling cancer. Today, that same focus on quality and care is the reason we’ve grown into what we are today, and we will never forget that!

In a couple weeks, you’ll start seeing our new mushroom extracts packaging that will help customers see and pour the product better. It’s the exact same product made by the same people you love and trust with all the same high quality ingredients our friends and loved ones deserve.

Thank you for trusting us to help keep you on the path to better health and well being!

Purchase Half Hill Farm’s Mushroom Dual Extracts online and save 15% when you buy 4 or more 200ml bottles in any combination using coupon code “4pack.” Save 10% anytime with the one time use code “intro10.”

Read more on Half Hill Farm’s mushroom dual extracts:

Please consult your doctor if taking any of our products for health reasons. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

CDC recommended mask essentials at Wellness Emporium

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MASK ESSENTIALS: We now have washable cloth face masks available for customers for $5 and $10. All proceeds from mask purchases support local makers who are recently unemployed, underemployed, retired, or facing health challenges and putting their sewing skills to good use.

These masks are CDC recommended and also keep limited surgical grade masks in the hands of those who need them most. Get your face mask and other wellness essentials in one stop through our lobby and curbside service seven days a week!

COVID-19 Pandemic and our commitment to better health & well being

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COVID-19 PANDEMIC: Our wellness advocates are committed to your better health & well being no matter what life throws at you. During public health emergencies, our advocates are vigilant with cleaning procedures designed to disrupt transmission from touch surfaces and providing you the very best natural products to boost your immune response. We are closely monitoring CDC guidelines for businesses and will remain open with capacity limits set at 10 people in our retail spaces. We are here to arm you with knowledge, confidence and nature’s best tools to defeat fear and the health challenges fear can amplify.

While there is no known cure for COVID-19, there are a couple of ways to make transmission more difficult especially for those at higher risk. Both of them require acting on shared knowledge. The first option is entirely up to you – creating physical boundaries. Wash your hands. Don’t touch your face. Stand at a distance from others. Regularly clean your cell phone. The second option is a more elusive knowledge of natural remedies that can help amplify your immune response. Supplement your gut health with probiotics, locally fermented foods and beverage, whole food sourced vitamin and mineral supplements, elderberry, essential oils, immune boosting mushrooms and herbals.

 

We can’t be there to remind you to wash your hands, but we are here with knowledge of nature’s remedies and hand crafted quality products for better health & well being.

SHOP ONLINE: Shipping is FREE for all online orders over $150. There are coupon codes posted on the store page. If you want an item shipped from our store and do not see it listed online, please phone in your order.

SHOP OUR STORES: Stop by Wellness Emporium at the following locations and learn more.

UPDATE 3-21-20: We’ve moved to curbside service only to further protect our employees and customers. We’ve temporarily closed our Bell Buckle location. Our Jackson store has normal business hours. Below are our temporary curbside hours and locations. Thanks for your understanding!

Here’s to your better health and well being!

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THANK YOU: I really enjoy the chances I get to write a short note on the packing slips of orders we ship out every day. We’ve grown a lot over the past few years, but we’ve not forgotten what got us here. When I ask myself ‘what good can I do today,’ the work we do everyday is the answer, and your trust makes work not feel like work at all. I am so fortunate to have started this business with family and to see it grow to include a new family of extraordinary people I trust to fulfill our wellness-focused mission every day. Thank you for giving so much purpose and meaning to the work we all do at Half Hill Farm!

LIVE GREEN: Watch this segment on Live Green Tennessee featuring Christian Grantham talking about Half Hill Farm’s mission and the products we make for better health and well being. You can find our products in over 20 stores throughout Middle Tennessee including our four stores: