Birchwood, Tennessee

Old Cookstone Road

Single-origin mushrooms, grown on our own wood — in Birchwood, Tennessee.

Gourmet for the kitchen. Functional for the day.

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Jess Dixon, founder of Old Cookstone Road, at the farm in Birchwood, Tennessee.
Jess Dixon — third generation, Birchwood, Tennessee.

Our Story

Third generation, same ground.

Old Cookstone Road is named for the old road that once ran through our farm. My grandfather bought this land and raised six children on it. It passed to my mother, and I run it now with my parents — the third generation on the same East Tennessee ground, where Grasshopper Creek runs down toward the Tennessee River.

The Dixon line traces back to William Dixon, a weaver born in 1662 in Armagh, Ireland, here by the early 1700s and present through the Revolution.

The land is the whole point: two ponds, springs, a well that has never run anything but cold, clean water, deep soil, and slow-grown hardwood. Our mushrooms grow on that hardwood, cut right here. Nothing trucked in. Single-origin, for us, is the literal truth.

— Jess

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“If it didn’t grow on our road, it doesn’t wear our name.”
Jess’s father on the family’s orange tractor at Old Cookstone Road.
The orange tractor — still on payroll.

The Work

Some things you don’t outsource.

My father keeps the fields, the fence lines, and the woodlot. The hardwood our mushrooms grow on comes off this land the slow way — felled, bucked, and stacked by hand, then seasoned until it’s ready.

It isn’t nostalgia. It’s quality control.

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Provenance

Grown on hardwood we cut ourselves. Single‑origin, the literal way.

The Standard

Grown like a farm. Run like a laboratory.

Heritage gets you good stories. Discipline gets you good mushrooms. We keep both.

01

Controlled environment

Sealed grow rooms hold temperature, humidity, fresh air, and light to the setpoint — every hour of every flush.

02

Single-lot traceability

Every harvest carries one lot number, from the wood it grew on to the box it ships in. Ask for the paperwork — we like showing it.

03

Tested potency

Functional lots are third-party tested for active compounds — and for everything that shouldn’t be there.

Our Operations

What we’re building on the ridge.

We’re scaling the farm into a purpose-built growing facility — sealed grow halls, our own substrate line, and the cold chain to supply restaurants year-round without compromising a single lot. Two sketches of where we’re headed.

EARTH BERM + WILDFLOWERS CLEAN-ROOM GROW HALLS GLASS OBSERVATION GALLERY FRONT FIELD · BIRCHWOOD OUR OPERATIONS — CONCEPT SKETCH Earth-sheltered, glass-fronted, clean-room mushroom production — observe the grow halls from the gallery. Concept only.
The facility — concept, not final.
INSIDE THE GROW HALLS — CONCEPT MULTI-TIER VERTICAL RACKS FRESH AIR + CLIMATE TO SETPOINT FRUITING BLOCKS ANATOMY OF A BLOCK FRUITING FACE where the mushrooms grow HARDWOOD SAWDUST milled from our own forest BRAN supplement, for yield OUR WELL WATER cold, clean, our own SPAWN grown in our lab Milled and mixed on the farm, sterilized, then inoculated with our own spawn. Concept.
Inside a grow hall — concept, not final.

For Chefs — The Fresh Program

Cookstone & Co.

The fresh line, by Old Cookstone Road

Cookstone & Co. is our fresh program for kitchens that care where things come from. Harvested to order, chilled within the hour, and on your dock on a standing schedule — one farm, one lot, no brokers.

Harvest-to-door in 24 hours Standing weekly orders Lot docs with every case
Tractor working the fields at Old Cookstone Road.
The same fields, the same family — now feeding restaurant kitchens across East Tennessee.

Blue Oyster

Velvet caps, deep savor. The workhorse of the fresh sheet.

$16per lb

Lion’s Mane

Sears like scallop, shreds like crab. Plays seafood better than some seafood.

$22per lb

King Oyster

Thick, meaty stems made for coins, planks, and a hard sear.

$20per lb

Shiitake

Grown on our own oak. The umami line item.

$18per lb

Chef’s Weekly Box

A standing mix of the week’s best flushes, packed for service.

$60per box

Wholesale

Put the farm on your menu.

Tell us about your kitchen and your volume. We’ll send the current fresh sheet, wholesale pricing, and a delivery window for your area.

  • Chef-direct line to the grower
  • Custom cut and pack specs
  • First call on limited harvests

Lion’s Mane — Focus

Signal

Signal, by Old Cookstone Road

More signal. Less noise.

Lion’s mane grown in our halls, extracted in small lots, and tested before it’s bottled. For the mornings that have to count.

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Signal Capsules

Dual-extract lion’s mane in a clean capsule. The daily desk companion.

$3860 ct

Dual-Extract Tincture

Water and alcohol extraction, full spectrum. A dropper under the tongue, then to work.

$342 oz

Focus Coffee

Single-origin coffee, single-origin lion’s mane. The obvious merger.

$2412 oz

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The System

Clear signal. Steady current.

Two functional lines. One farm, one standard.

Cordyceps — Clean Energy

Current

Current, by Old Cookstone Road

Steady, moving power.

Cordyceps for output you can feel — no jitter, no crash. Grown, extracted, and tested a hundred yards from where it ships.

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Current Capsules

Cordyceps militaris, grown in-house. Steady output, no static.

$3660 ct

Pre-Activity Powder

Stirs into anything. Built for the long climb, the early gym, the second shift.

$4230 srv

Cordyceps Tincture

Fast, clean, portable. Energy that doesn’t ask for sugar.

$342 oz

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Newsletter

From the farm — occasional notes, harvests, and first looks.