09/02/2026
Hello my Wild Loves!
Lets talk about the beauty and benefits of the one that started our whole farm, Lions Mane!
We named our farm after our hand written wedding vows, where we promised to love each other wildly...
So there was never really a question on what we would call this endeavor to bring the highest quality products to our community at affordable prices.
Wild Love Farm was created accidentally, as a labor of love for my wife who had a TBI and was hoping for relief from some of those associated symptoms. I was also dealing with a TBI but was in denial about it, cause its always easier to help someone else than admit you need help right? 🤪🙄
In reading about what might help, lions mane stood out immediately. But I was overwhelmed trying to source a high quality, unfiltered, 1:1 extract. So in a move that is 100% me, I decided on a whim, "I can totally do this myself better".
Skip ahead the next 20 months or so while I figured out how to sterilize, how to innoculate, how to bounce back from frustration, how to fine tune temperature, humidity, timing. While I learned the math for proper blending and extraction; and while the mushrooms slowly took over every spare corner of the house...
We decided it made sense to do this for real and got a fruiting chamber, lab equipment and licensed.
If youre still with us for all that, now for the fun stuff Lions mane may do!!
Lions mane has been used for centuries, in TCM the records date back to the Tang dynasty in 618 AD.
It has a long history of use in Native American as well as East Asian medical systems for infections, anxiety, stress, and depression. Lion’s mane mushrooms are eaten raw, dried, or cooked. Supplemental forms are promoted for improving cognitive health, mood, and immunity.
Preclinical studies reported antioxidant, antimicrobial, immunomodulatory, anti-neuroinflammatory, neuroprotective, cognition-enhancing, wound-healing and anti-gastric ulcer effects.
Limited clinical data suggest lion’s mane may improve memory and mood in overweight individuals, mild cognitive impairment, cognitive function in older adults and in patients with mild Alzheimer’s disease, as well as mood in menopausal women. Subjective reductions in stress were also reported in younger adults although supplementation had no impact on metabolic flexibility or cognition.
In addition, lion’s mane demonstrated antiproliferative and antimetastatic activities in preclinical models. But there are no studies in humans that show it has anti-cancer effects. (https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrative-medicine/herbs/lions-mane-mushroom).
Message us if youd like to get any fresh lions mane, or our extracts!
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12030463/
