Get 20% off our mushroom dual extracts throughout September!

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!

We support accurate labeling of mushroom products

Two major mushroom product makers are at odds over what can be labeled as real mushroom products, and we have thoughts. NAMMEX wants the FDA to regulate the word “mushroom” in products to mean the full mature mushrooms depicted on their labels and in centuries of cultural use. Host Defense’s Paul Stamets wants his lab-grown mycelium to be labeled as the fully grown mushrooms depicted on his labels. As a mushroom extract maker who uses fully grown mature mushrooms, Half Hill Farm supports accurate labeling of mushroom products.

Recently, mushroom product maker NAMMEX filed a regulatory request with the FDA seeking clarity in mushroom supplements industry labeling.

At issue are major brands that make “mushroom” products from lab-grown sheets of mycelium cheaply propagated in a matter of days on rice or grain substrate. Once the substrate is myceliated, it is then dried, and extracted or encapsulated and labeled as made from the mature mushrooms often depicted on the label. These products unfortunately often contain the actual grain substrate in the product and are consumed by the purchaser. Some companies, like Host Defense, accurately include “rice” or “grain” in their ingredients because of this. Some don’t. Either way, the shorter and cheaper process certainly makes for more profit.

It is no surprise that some brands that make products from mycelium are upset with NAMMEX and have issued a statement opposing their effort. One statement, led by Host Defense’s Paul Stamets, argues that his company and other major brands should be able to label their mycelium products as “mushrooms” because mushrooms are made of the mycelium he uses to create his products. You can read his statement here.

At the same time this regulatory request for clarity is being made by a mushroom product maker, the poultry industry, in a bit of irony, won FDA approval allowing them to label lab-grown cultured cells as “chicken.” While science can definitively conclude a petri dish of cultured cells is indeed cultured from real chicken (just as mycologists can determine mycelium is cultured from real mushrooms), a plate of lab-grown cells is not the same as the real thing.

Here at Half Hill Farm, our mushroom extracts use the fully mature mushrooms pictured on our labels that take months to cultivate. Mature mushrooms experience months of growth and controlled conditions to produce the full spectrum of compounds that are extracted. The distinction between mushroom extracts and mycelium extracts set us apart from many major brands and is important to us.

Mushrooms have evolved to survive millions of years of changing conditions to be the oldest living thing on our planet. The result of that evolutionary outcome is eons of wisdom in the form of the full fruited body of the mushroom itself that we should respect and revere with proper labeling.

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Take 15% off your purchase of our mushroom dual extracts using coupon code 4PACK at checkout when you purchase four or more 200ml bottles in any combination.

All orders over $150 get automatic free shipping. All orders ship within 24 hours except weekends and holidays.

Get 15% off our Turkey Tail Mushroom Dual Extract


TURKEY TAIL MUSHROOMS: Get 15% off when you buy four or more 200ml bottles of our mushroom dual extracts in any combination using code “4PACK” at https://store.halfhillfarm.com - all orders over $150 ship for FREE.

We’ve been making and using our mushroom dual extracts for over 10 years. Our mushroom dual extracts are made with all organic and responsibly wildcrafted ingredients in several stages through a 45 day extraction process. We only use the full fruited mushroom body in our extracts.

Mushrooms have been used for centuries for wellness and evolved through every imaginable condition to become one of the oldest life forms on the planet. Tap into the wisdom of the ages with our Turkey Tail, Lion’s Mane, Chaga, Red Reishi, Cordyceps, and Five Blend mushroom dual extracts.

How to make sauerkraut – fermenting veggies


FERMENTING VEGGIES: This small haul from the Murfreesboro Saturday Market got made into some tasty sauerkrauts we hope will be ready late next month. These are recipes with ginger that we make at home for ourselves and decided to add to the krauts we currently offer at Wellness Emporium – Woodbury. One is Ginger Beet. The other is Carrot, Ginger, and Turmeric.

HOW TO MAKE SAUERKRAUT: Sauerkrauts are easy to make and so good for you. They are rich in dietary fiber, nutrients, andgut-healthy probiotics.

All you need to do is chop up a blend of 75% cabbage with 25% other veggies and 2% salt added. Weigh all your cabbage and mulitply the weight time 0.33. The resulting number is your 25% of other veggies. After chopping or shredding your ingredients, mix them together and weigh it. Multiply the total weight with 0.02. This is how much salt you need to add, which is 2% of the total weight.

Mix all these together kneading the veggies in a bowl. You should see brine dripping from each fist full. Let it sit for about 20 minutes, then place in a fermentation vessel for about three weeks making sure all the veggies are completely submerged in its own brine. You can use fermentation weights to hold your fermenting veggies below the brine surface, or fill ziplock bags with water and place on top.

Fermentation will go through a couple of phases. If you use an airlock or airtight lid, you will need to burp the ferments. This will take about 3 weeks. When it’s done, jar it up and refrigerate to slow or stop fermentation. It should be a crunchy, tangy, probiotic bite of fermented goodness you can add to most meals!

Lion’s Mane mushroom extract improves brain cell growth

A new study in the January 2023 Journal of Neurochemistry shows unique compounds in Lion’s Mane mushroom extract boost memory by boosting nerve growth.

The study identified two bioactive compounds, N-de phenylethyl isohericerin and Hericene A, that appear to regulate the growth of neurons that improve memory.

The extracts had a “clear neurotrophic effect,” they write, resulting in doubly long axons – the threadlike links that conduct impulses away from a neuron – and more than triple the number of neurites, or small projections from a neuron that can grow into fully functional axons or dendrites.

“Laboratory tests measured the neurotrophic effects of compounds isolated from Hericium erinaceus on cultured brain cells, and surprisingly we found that the active compounds promote neuron projections, extending and connecting to other neurons,” Meunier says.

Researchers describe the compounds present in Lion’s Mane mushrooms as potent memory enhancers that may provide hope for natural memory enhancement for an aging population. Read more from University of Queensland researchers.

Seasonal Honeysuckle Kefir Soda Now on Tap!

HONEYSUCKLE KEFIR: Our farm’s first seasonal taste of Spring is now on tap! Half Hill Farm’s Honeysuckle water kefir soda is a trip through childhood memories – made with farm foraged honeysuckle and a kiss of local honey in our probiotic water kefir soda. It’s an annual favorite that never lasts long. Stop by our stores listed below and get it by the 16 oz cup or 64 oz growler refill!

Five Mushrooms Liquid Dual Extract Blend from Half Hill Farm

Over the years, many of you requested a mushroom extract that blended what you love the most about each of our liquid mushroom dual extracts. And for years we’ve encouraged customers to blend the extracts they love the most in any combination.

As I turn 50 later this year, I feel better than I ever have in my life. Aside from good diet and exercise, taking our liquid mushroom extracts daily for years is my only “secret.” After enjoying a test blend of all five of our mushroom dual extracts daily, I have a new favorite that we are ready to share with you!

Introducing Half Hill Farm’s Five Mushrooms – a mushroom dual extract blend of USDA certified organic and wildcrafted Turkey Tail, Red Reishi, Chaga, Lion’s Mane and Cordyceps mushrooms. This extract combines the unique myco-nutrients of five mushrooms used for centuries to support good health.

Now available through our online store and at our farm’s stores below:

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.

 

Take 20% off select essentials in-store and online

THANK YOU for making our farm your trusted home for better health & well being. It means a lot to us, and we want to express our gratitude with a 20% in-store discount on all our farm’s popular mushroom extracts, apple cider vinegar tonics, kombucha, kefir, hemp products, bitters and other select products – Friday only at the following locations:

Taste Test our new flavor Root Beer Kefir on tap at Wellness Emporium Woodbury and let us know what you think! This American craft soda flavor is made with all organic sarsaparilla, ginger, star anise, birch bark, cherry bark, and wintergreen in our fermented probiotic water kefir.

Won’t be around? Shop online and receive the same automatic discount all weekend (Nov 27 – Nov 30) with free shipping on all orders over $150!

Rootbeer Bitters: our new flavor with American roots

Our latest herbal creation takes a distinct American flavor all the way back to its indigenous roots. Root beer was popularized in the 1800s as a sugary carbonated adaption of Native American root teas often made with sassafras, wintergreen, and different roots, bark and berries.

Root teas were used as medicine by Native Americans for everything from headaches to upset stomachs, some of the first remedies offered to sick colonists.

Half Hill Farm’s Rootbeer Bitters is made with all organic whole sarsaparilla, star anise, winter green, orange zest, birch bark, licorice root, fennel, wild cherry bark, ginger, cinnamon, and burdock root.

Just like its popular sister Dandelion Bitters, its flavor is made to calm and soothe an upset nation once again – available now in 2 oz and 6 oz bottles at the following locations:

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.

Dandelion Bitters: Now in 2 oz and 6 oz sizes!

DANDELION BITTERS: Our farm’s popular Dandelion Bitters is now available in a larger 6oz bottle!

Bitter flavor: Good digestion is at the heart of better health and well being, and it all starts with taste. Bitter flavor receptors begin on the back of the tongue and populate the entire digestive tract. Bitter flavors help awaken your body’s natural digestive processes by stimulating the liver to produce bile, the pancreas to produce digestive enzymes and the stomach to produce important acids. Stimulation of bitter receptors helps digest fat, reduces absorption of toxins, and helps the gut better absorb nutrients.

Half Hill Farm’s Dandelion Bitters is made with love in Woodbury, Tennessee with all certified organic dandelion leaf and root, orange peel, fennel seed, ginger and cardamom. Get a 2oz bottle with a dropper top or our new 6oz pour at the following locations:

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.