You can help change the way people think about their food and health while reconnecting them to a rural farm experience.

Vince and I started our small seven acre USDA Certified Organic farm in rural Woodbury, Tennessee with a mission to become responsible stewards with our resources and to do something positive with our time and energy. We had no idea just how personal that mission would hit home and have created a unique mushroom extract we want to share as well as show people how to create it at home themselves.

One item our farm began growing to fulfill our mission is edible Shiitake mushrooms. A relative's recent stage IV cancer diagnosis quickly shifted our attention to growing and producing native Turkey Tail mushrooms used as an adjunct therapy to her chemo and radiation treatments. Based on the promising results of NIH research and FDA studies on dosages of polysaccharides (PSK) derived from these mushrooms, and MD Anderson Cancer Center's findings that Active Hexose Correlated Compound (AHCC) present in mushroom extracts may cure HPV, we've created Shiitake, Turkey Tail and Reishi mushroom extracts we believe can help many people.

To help fulfill our farm's mission, we need your help to open up our farm to visitors for workshops on growing these mushrooms and creating life-enhancing extracts, provide pick-your-own harvests of apples, blueberries and hops, and other educational opportunities.  

Your contribution will buy the basic materials we need to build an accessible outhouse with a composting toilet and a small 10x20 shelter to host visitors. This will allow us to accommodate visitors and to share our passion for making food our medicine and medicine our food.

Here is what you get for your contribution:

Our goal is $4,500. If we do not reach our goal, funds will be applied to sheltering visitors in some way. Anything over our goal we will use to make the project even better by adding concrete and electrical.

• $50 - you will receive a 100 ml 1:1 Reishi Mushroom extract bottled in Miron ultra-violet glass (retail value: $40) and a postcard thank you!
• $100 - FREE WORKSHOP (retail value: $50) plus a 100 ml 1:1 Reishi Mushroom extract bottled in Miron ultra-violet glass (retail value: $40) and a postcard thank you!
• $250 - gets you everything above, plus placement of an inspirational quote of your choice in our outhouse for visitors to read for years to come!
• $1,000 - gets you everything above, plus a brass plaque dedicating our pavilion in your honor! There is only one of these special gifts available.

Here is what your contribution gets us:

• Locally harvested, untreated and milled cedar wood posts and boards for a 6x8 accessible outhouse and small 10x20 pavilion shelter. These will be purchased from Grant Cedar Mill (grantcedarmill.com): estimated $2,000.
  
• An Excel NE composting toilet that doesn't require water or power: estimate $1,700.
• Fabricated metal roofing: estimate $500
• We are the labor.

Your Impact

You contribution well help reconnect people to a rural farm experience and help change the way people think about their food and health.

• Enhance people's health naturally with mushrooms
  
• Educate people about the science and research behind medicinal mushrooms.
• Share an appreciation of organic systems.
  

Other Ways You Can Help

We offer several products through our online store that can get you started growing your own medicinal and edible mushrooms at home. If you cannot give, consider shopping our online store: http://halfhillfarm.com