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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 15% off our Turkey Tail Mushroom Dual Extract

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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.

Lion’s Mane mushroom extract improves brain cell growth

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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.

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:

Fall Seasonal Muscadine Kombucha now on tap!

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MUSCADINE KOMBUCHA: It’s that very special time of the year when the scuppernongs start coming off the vine, and that means making a seasonal batch of our annual Muscadine Kombucha!

This limited flavor is made by Half Hill Farm from fresh, organic scuppernongs grown by Sylvia at Green Door Gourmet. It’s a probiotic taste of Fall, and it’s available on tap by the cup our growler refill while it lasts exclusively at all our 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!

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:

Half Hill Farm restocks CBD hemp oil in Woodbury

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Half Hill Farm is now restocking our CBD hemp oil products following clarity provided  by Circuit Court Judge Royce Taylor (TN Judicial District 16). The judge acknowledged in his order of injunctive relief that hemp-derived CBD products are legal under state law. Half Hill Farm removed CBD products with an abundance of caution until we could understand whether the court intended to uphold or challenge state law.

Yesterday, Judge Taylor provided injunctive relief to business owners arrested in Operation Candy Crush ordering the return of keys and cash registers seized in raids. He also placed the burden of proof on District Attorney Jennings Jones to prove the store owners knowingly sold “marijuana,” as the indictments claim.

Judge Taylor, citing Tennessee Public Chapter 369, said the state must prove that the CBD products sold by those arrested and seized by law enforcement came from marijuana and not industrial hemp which is legal in Tennessee.

The 2017 law passed unanimously by the legislature defines industrial hemp as including “any industrial hemp-derived products that do not contain more than three-tenths of one percent (0.3%) of delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in a topical or indigestible consumer product” (TCA 43-26-102(4)(B)). Industrial hemp also includes viable and non-viable plant, plant parts, or whole plant extracts with the same THC limits and additional restrictions if the source is growers and processors licensed by the state (TCA 43-26-102(4)(A)).

State law also explicitly removes industrial hemp (non-viable industrial hemp OR products made from non-viable industrial hemp from a licensed grower or processor) from state marijuana criminal codes (TCA 39-17-415). Despite some irresponsible television and print reports citing poorly written press releases, it is legal for consumers to purchase, consume and possess industrial hemp products without a prescription.

Half Hill Farm was part of the state hemp pilot program. We wanted to create extracts but could not plant the seed we wanted or sell the product to consumers. Recent changes in state law and Department of Agriculture rules fixed both those problems (allowing high CBD variety seed and legalizing any industrial hemp derived products) and created a market for legal, safe industrial hemp products. The legal distinction in state law between marijuana and industrial hemp creates a market for state grower and processor hemp products and for retailers to offer those products with competitive choices. Without these protections the state’s hemp pilot program would likely fail.

Here is a picture of the 2017 law beside a picture of our product’s certificate of analysis. You can view these documents in our stores.

You can purchase our CBD Hemp Oil products at our store in Woodbury (Half Hill Farm – 1424 John Bragg HWY Woodbury, TN 37190) and in Bell Buckle (Wellness Emporium – 13 Webb Rd E Bell Buckle, TN 37020). You can also view full lab reports for each purchase.

UPDATE 02-28-18: District Attorney Jennings Jones has dropped all charges against store owners. If you are a district attorney in Tennessee and have law enforcement or politicians coming to you with this issue, take note and don’t make costly mistakes like this.

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Organic farm starts kombucha brewery in Woodbury

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(Woodbury, TN)  -  Half Hill Farm is opening a kombucha brewery in the Arts Center of Cannon County. The USDA certified organic farm will sell 16 oz. bottles and fill half gallon growlers of the carbonated beverage on site with both sizes available in local stores and restaurants.

The organic mushroom extract maker will team up with tempeh maker Short Mountain Cultures to work collectively as The Kitchen @ the Arts Center starting January 1. The collaboration will bring locally handcrafted fermented food & beverages to Middle Tennessee.

“We’re excited about the opportunity to share our handcrafted organic kombucha and everything we make together. It’s awesome,” said Half Hill Farm co-owner Vince Oropesa. “And it’s completely solar powered. How cool is that!” Oropesa added pointing to the Arts Center’s 30 KW solar panel system.

Half Hill Farm will also make live kombucha culture food products and barrel-aged kombucha vinegar. The farm will also expand its mushroom extracts to include Chaga, Lion’s Mane and other certified organic mushrooms.

Kombucha is sweet tea fermented with special yeast and probiotics into a carbonated beverage often flavored with fruits, vegetables, roots, or herbs. The craft of brewing and fermenting kombucha with a SCOBY (a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast) is thousands of years old.

“Making these craft products at The Kitchen with like-minded partners feels right,” Half Hill Farm co-owner Christian Grantham said. “It’s the right people, the right place and the right time to revive a sustainable food culture that has lasted centuries.”


Apple Ginger Kombucha samples don’t last long on the farm.

Follow us for more information: A grand opening date for The Kitchen has not yet been announced. You can follow Half Hill Farm on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for more information.

Photo (left to right): Vince Oropesa, Christian Grantham, Simmer Tidman, John Parker