Construction started this week on Half Hill Farm’s mushroom workshop pavilion. Made of locally milled oak & cedar, it’s a perfect setting to help foster an important relationship with nature…
Construction started this week on Half Hill Farm’s mushroom workshop pavilion. Made of locally milled oak & cedar, it’s a perfect setting to help foster an important relationship with nature…
Our friends at Yellowbird Farms take a break from sheep to make Shiitake mushroom logs. Our first season of mushroom log workshops is now closed as we head into…
This lightning struck White Oak became several Shiitake mushroom logs. It’s always fortunate when the only damage from a storm is to property. Sometimes that includes damage to favorite…
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…
As you enjoy the beautiful colors of Fall this year you may notice several varieties of wild mushrooms growing at the base of some large hardwood trees in Tennessee….
Today is the first day of Fall and the official start of our organic Shiitake and Maitake mushroom production at Half Hill Farm! This Summer we began working with…
Elder Jones went places – Texas, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, California, Massachusetts, Utah, Ohio, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kentucky. He’s an awesome concrete artist and a little bit of an admitted hoarder….
We had no idea our first year’s test patches would produce anything near enough to go to market. Maybe it’s all the rain. Maybe it’s a couple of exciting…
This week I helped a friend go through his mother’s attic at their historic Century Farm in nearby Readyville, TN and was reminded of a different time in our…
This weekend’s TN Organic Growers Association conference provided a wonderful opportunity to meet one of Tennessee’s organic pioneers. Alfred Farris and his wife Carney moved to their 487 acre…