Sunny Horizon Farm

06/30/2026

A collection of beautiful findings. ✨✨✨

06/16/2026

Garlic Scape Salt
Great with mushrooms!

06/16/2026

Garlic Scape Salt

One of the best flavors with mushrooms 🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫 in my opinion is garlic! 🧄
We grow garlic, lots of garlic. We harvested our scapes.
Today, I learned a new way to preserve the scapes for culinary use. Fusion Atelier has them for a small donation for a few days, benefiting Master Gardeners. . (Thank you)
You can make some too!
Here are some pics. and a link for how to make it. https://donveyfarms.com/how-to-make-garlic-scape-salt-simple-recipe/

06/14/2026

"Sometimes the most beautiful view is just the one above your head"

✨✨✨Always look up✨✨✨

06/12/2026

I take Reishi tincture before bed each night to help with sleep. It can be taken sublingual (under the tongue) or added to a hot or cold beverage.
Why it works
Reishi doesn’t knock you out like melatonin or prescription sleep meds. It’s an adaptogen that helps regulate your stress response so your body can fall asleep naturally and stay asleep.

Here are the wonderful active ingredients.
Triterpenes: These bitter compounds are calming to the nervous system. They promote relaxation and increase total sleep time and non-REM sleep in studies. They don’t sedate — they reduce the “wired but tired” feeling.Polysaccharides: Specifically beta-glucans. They help modulate the immune system and reduce inflammation that can disrupt sleep.
GABA support: Reishi appears to influence GABA pathways, the brain’s main “brake pedal” neurotransmitter. More GABA activity = quieter mind.

The key: Reishi is not habit forming. It doesn’t create dependency or withdrawal. It works by restoring balance to your HPA axis — the stress/sleep system — so you build better sleep architecture over weeks, not hours. Most people take it 30-60 min before bed as a tincture.

For Hypertension & Cortisol Spikes
Reishi is famous as a cardio and stress adaptogen:

For cortisol:
• Adaptogenic action: Reishi helps normalize cortisol rhythms. If cortisol is too high at night — the classic 3am wake-up — Reishi can blunt those spikes.
• Triterpenes + polysaccharides together reduce over-activation of the HPA axis. Think of it as turning down the volume on your stress response instead of shutting it off.
Reishi is such a wonderful gift and quite beautiful to find.
All our tinctures, including Reishi are wild foraged, dried, powdered processed by dual extraction with alcohol and water. Each solution pulls out certain medicines.
How beautiful is this specimen?the medicine it holds is even more special!
If you would like to read about other benefits of Reishi, please check the comments below.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email us at:
[email protected] we are here to help.
Be well

06/12/2026

I cannot even tell you how this conversation resonated with me in the journey we traveled with Jim's diagnosis.
The books she recommends, the attitude, the mind set, who you choose to include in your healing journey. If any of you have heard me speak at our mushroom classes, you know what I am referring to. Take a listen and share with someone you know may benefit. I just did.
Be well!

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06/10/2026

Chaga
It is the mushroom that we forage in winter. Preferably when it has been below 40 degrees for 5 days and the sap has moved back to the roots of the Birch tree.

Chaga mushroom (Inonotus obliquus) — the black, clinker-like fungus that grows on the trunks of white birch trees across the boreal forest — has been used as medicine in Russia, Scandinavia, and Siberia for at least 500 years. It is found on other birch trees here in PA.

And the reason it has been used — the scientific reason — is now understood.

Chaga parasitises the birch tree. As it penetrates the bark and draws nutrients from the host tree, it concentrates the birch triterpenes — including betulin and betulinic acid — from the bark into its own tissue. It then adds its own pharmacological compounds: inotodiol (another cytotoxic triterpene), ergosterol peroxide (an anti-cancer sterol), melanins (extraordinarily high antioxidant activity), and immunologically active beta-glucans.

The result: chaga is simultaneously a concentrated betulinic acid delivery vehicle AND a beta-glucan immune activator — combining the direct cancer cell targeting of betulinic acid with the NK cell and macrophage activation of the beta-glucan fraction.

The preparation: a proper chaga dual extract — hot water extraction (for beta-glucans) combined with alcohol extraction (for triterpenes) — is the most complete way to capture both pharmacological fractions.

The oxalate caution: Chaga contains very high oxalate concentrations. Individuals with kidney disease or a history of calcium oxalate kidney stones should avoid high-dose chaga use and consult their healthcare practitioner. For these individuals, birch bark extract directly is the preferred betulinic acid source.
It can be made into tea, or our preferred source of medicine is through dual extraction. Where you benefit medicine through alcohol and water extraction.
We forage substantially here in Pennsylvania. Chaga is available in our "Blend"

Sunny Horizon Farm tinctures are available Fox and Thistle Mercantile in Brookville
Sunrise Coffee Bar in Brockway and Coblentz Amish variety store.
You may email us with any questions.
[email protected]

06/06/2026

06/06/2026

The progress of the Mushroom warriors was unaffected by the torrential rain and sudden downpours. We gained valuable knowledge and had a great experience through interactions with new acquaintances. Life is enriched each time we gather.
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Inoculation gathering June 6th 2026
Another gathering in the fall.

06/05/2026

We went to the forest today to let nature put our souls back together.