Highland — feature section (preview)
Highland
Mushrooms
Founding Work Marion, NC · 35.6789°N 82.0107°W

I'm helping launch Highland — a functional- mushroom startup.

Nutraceutical ingredients, manufactured via pharmaceutical standard.

Launched in 2026, Highland is a 60,000 square foot cGMP-certified production facility that grows, dries, extracts, and packages standardized, lab-verified nutraceutical ingredients for pharmaceutical and nutraceutical customers. Built on more than 90 years of combined leadership in design, production, and business. Every lot analyzed and tracked. Every batch validated to pharmaceutical specifications.

The work is built backward from a single principle. A sterile environment throughout the facility. Independent verification on every lot. Full traceability from raw substrate to finished powder. Material that does not meet our internal standard does not leave the building — regardless of what it costs us to discard it.

Highland's analytical laboratory — three technicians in white cleanroom suits operating UHPLC System 1 and System 2 under sterile cleanroom lighting in Marion, NC
The analytical lab — UHPLC System 1 & System 2 · Marion, North Carolina
Specimen plate of Hericium erinaceus illustrating Highland's cultivation, from a single thread of culture to a quantified extract.
square feet
grown, dried & extracted under one roof
years, combined
of mycology & production behind it
standards
each one independently audited
established
largest cGMP grower, U.S. East Coast
The Ingredient

Cognicine™ — Lion's Mane,
supplied as bulk powder.

An air-dried, full-spectrum extract for formulators who care what's actually in the drum. Standardized to the compounds that matter — not just to weight — and shipped with a certificate of analysis every time. Proof, not promises.

species · Hericium erinaceus
format · free-flowing bulk powder
standardized · hericenones · erinacines · β-glucans
method · UHPLC, per lot
origin · U.S.A. grown · Marion, NC
USDA Organic
Quality Assurance Int'l
cGMP Certified
21 CFR Part 111 · annual audit
UHPLC Verified
on-site lab · COA per lot
Kosher & Halal
Star-K · plant-based pipeline
Highland Mushrooms LLC · est. 2026 · Marion, North Carolina