Muscadine Kombucha – a late Summer harvest now on tap!

MUSCACDINE KOMBUCHA: Our farm’s annual taste of late Summer harvest is here! This seasonal small batch of muscadine kombucha is made with all organic scuppernongs grown by Green Door Gourmet and memories of sneaking a hand full off the neighbor’s vine as a kid – now on tap by the cup or growler refills while it lasts at the following locations!

 

Half Hill Farm partners with former tobacco farm to grow hemp


Half Hill Farm is now partnered with a former tobacco grower to produce premium indoor grown hemp flower. The new 5,000 square feet indoor grow space at Boze Farms in Carthage, TN should be fully operational later this year.

The indoor grow will provide bulk wholesale flower to stores and manufacturers including Half Hill Farm’s Wellness Emporium retail stores across the state. The new climate controlled facility will also supply their new CO2 extraction lab in Woodbury to ensure in-house quality controls from start to finished product.

“We know retailers and consumers have a lot of options on the market,” said Half Hill Farm owner Vince Oropesa. “That’s why we’re focused on providing a premium value with quality growing and processing that can scale to meet demand.”

Many hemp farmers and processors in Tennessee rely on solvent extraction that can process mass quantities of hemp at a time using ethanol or butane. Half Hill Farm’s new extraction and testing lab will use higher quality supercritical CO2 extraction. The slower process uses a few pounds of hemp at a time and will help ensure only the best hemp is extracted producing a better quality product option for consumers and manufacturers.

“We know we can’t CO2 extract everything,” said owner Scot Smotherman who heads up the partnership. “But there’s no shortage of good quality ethanol extraction service options for larger volume grows.”

Half Hill Farm was the first USDA certified organic farm in Tennessee to grow industrial hemp. We are now a licensed hemp grower, processor and permitted food manufacturer producing quality CO2 extracted CBD hemp oil blends in 500mg, 1000mg, and 2500mg formulas and a 1000mg full spectrum CBD hemp topical salve.

More than 2,900 grower licenses were issued to Tennessee farms by the Tennessee Department of Agriculture this year. For perspective, neighboring Kentucky is the nation’s third largest grower of hemp, and they issued 1,000 grower licenses this year.

The year round indoor grow and the ability to scale into several hundred thousand square feet elsewhere on the farm was a critical component in Half Hill Farm partnering with Boze Farm.

“Farming has taken a real beating over the past few years, “ said Joe Darren Boze. “We’re hoping hemp helps turns it around.”

Jimmy Joe Boze, Joe’s father, started growing hemp when his tobacco contract was suddenly pulled. He still proudly makes pre-rolls from last year’s harvest and humbly says he did it to see how it will go. While he’s hopeful, and sees how it helps people, he’s wary and still describes this year as ‘poking around to see what works.’

“This ain’t my first rodeo,” Jimmy Joe added with a wink and hint of good old farmer’s been-there-done-that attitude. “Let’s see what the boys can do with it.”

Visit our farm’s retail stores:

Half Hill Farm’s Blackberry Kombucha is here!

BLACKBERRY SUMMER: Our farm’s seasonal taste of Summer is here! Half Hill Farm‘s Blackberry Kombucha is an annual favorite available while it lasts. This year was a good year for blackberries, and we harvested the more than any other year to bring you this popular flavor all Summer long – organic and locally grown with a kiss of local honey and now on tap for growler refills exclusively at:

Get Half Hill Farm’s kombucha at Demeter’s Common

HEY LEBANON: You can now grab all four flavors of Half Hill Farm’s hand-crafted probiotic kombucha at Demeter’s Common (228 West Main Street Suite E
Lebanon, Tennessee 37087), a locally focused, specialty grocery store on W Main St.

We are so happy to partner with Demeter’s Common and owner Mallory Jennings. Mallory feels like she was put on this earth to connect farmers and their locally produced goods with consumers. She grew up on her family farm and has had first hand experience bringing farm fresh produce to consumers’ table. We are so excited to be apart of her new store!

Ginger Beet Water Kefir Shrub now at Harvest Local Foods

HEY MANCHESTER: You can now find our farm’s Ginger Beet Water Kefir Shrub at Harvest Local Foods (101 N. Irwin St. Manchester, Tennessee 37355) with our other flavors of kombucha and kefir! Harvest Local Foods is one of our favorite places to find local Tennessee made products, fresh produce, skincare, and other fermented goodies! Grab a bottle when you’re shopping for farm fresh goods on the square in Manchester!

Taste of Spring: It’s time for Honeysuckle Kombucha!

Our annual farm-foraged Honeysuckle Apple Kombucha is now on tap by the cup or growler refill at Half Hill Farm’s Wellness Emporium in Woodbury, TN (110 W High St. Woodbury, TN 37190)  open seven days a week!

We make this seasonal flavor every year with fresh harvested honeysuckle from our farm in Woodbury. Like all our flavors, this favorite is made with all organic ingredients: honeysuckle, apple and local honey! Just like Spring, it never lasts long, so stop by and grab a growler!

UPDATE 05-25-19: Sorry to say we are now sold out! If you missed it, don’t worry. It will be back next year!

Introducing our farm’s Ginger Beet Water Kefir Shrub

We are starting Spring early this year with the release of our farm’s new Ginger Beet Water Kefir Shrub! This is our third water kefir release this year and our second shrub, an old American Colonial era beverage made with spiced vinegars.

Our Ginger Beet shrub is made with our Ginger Beet Apple Cider Vinegar Tonic and all its mineral-rich organic beets, ginger, nettles, red clover, dandelion leaf and root and local honey in a probiotic water kefir ferment.

Get a free sample and purchase by the cup or growler on tap exclusively at Wellness Emporium of Woodbury, TN (110 W High Street Woodbury, TN 37190) .

Want to retail our farm’s kombuchas, kefirs and other products in your store? Sign up for a wholesale account here.

Please consult your doctor before taking any of our products for health reasons. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Turkey Tail mushroom extract and quality of life for dogs with cancer

Our every day work is a mission to bring hope and healing into the world. We know the science behind what we do, but it’s the “why” part that gets to the deeper purpose and meaning of our work. When we ask what good we can do with our time and talents, we are answered by your heartfelt letters. 

Our almost 12 year old golden girl, Serenity, was diagnosed with hemangiosarcoma of the spleen on Nov. 20, 2018. I was told that we only had a few days left, that is was aggressive, and there was nothing we could do. However, through some research and desperation I came across a study from Penn State in which they had used Turkey Tail mushroom extract on dogs with the same cancer as Serenity’s. After further searching I came across your farm and Turkey Tail product. Fast forward to today and we just received our 2nd order of Turkey Tail extract. We’ve been putting it in Serenity’s food twice a day. She is maintaining, has a great appetite, wants to play and run, and goes on walks several times a day. So, we are feeling thankful that we found your product as well as extremely blessed to still have our Serenity with us and living what we would call a good quality of life. We thought you might enjoy hearing our experience/story.
Sincerely,
Rhonda & Bruce Arney

Serenity’s story is a very common one for us, each with a unique character and name forever etched on the hearts of families who care for them. What we often find with customers who use our Turkey Tail mushroom dual extract for their dogs is improved quality of life and life beyond expectation (months to a year longer than prognosis). The results shared by people fighting cancer are even more remarkable (read reviews).

Turkey Tail mushrooms aren’t a cure for cancer, but your experiences with our product over the past few years have helped validate the growing body of science behind it and opened our eyes to the power of nature to help us rise to any health challenge.

Please consult your doctor before taking any of our products for health reasons. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Full spectrum CBD hemp salve for topical use

We are so happy to introduce our farm’s first full spectrum extract CBD hemp topical salve! Each 1 oz ultraviolet glass jar contains all organic sweet almond oil, calendula infused extra virgin olive oil, jojoba oil, vitamin E oil extracted from sunflower seeds, frankincense and sweet orange essential oils in natural beeswax and 1000 mg full spectrum extract CBD hemp oil.

Most of what we make starts as a natural remedy for ourselves. When our farm started growing hemp organically in 2014, this is one of the products I couldn’t wait to make. As someone who suffers from life-long psoriasis, I understand the desire for a natural healing that works following misdiagnosis and failed recommendations.

I use our 1000mg full spectrum CBD topical salve almost everyday. After months of formulating and testing, we now make it for you with love in our FDA registered and state permitted manufacturing facility in Woodbury.

Here are some links on topical uses of CBD:

Where to find our full spectrum CBD salve: You can purchase our farm’s CBD hemp salve through our online store or at our retail stores listed below and other stores listed here. If you would like to carry our CBD products in your store, sign up for a wholesale account here.

Please consult your doctor before taking any of our products for health reasons. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Half Hill Farm’s farm foraged taste of Summer: Blackberry Kombucha!

The Blackberry Kombucha is back! This is our second year making this farm-foraged taste of Summer, and this year is better than ever with a huge local harvest of blackberries from our neighbor Thomas Howell.

Stop in and get a cup or growler on tap while it lasts at Wellness Emporium of Woodbury, TN (110 W High Street. Woodbury, TN 37190) and the Wellness Emporium of Bell Buckle, TN (13 Webb Rd. E, Bell Buckle, TN 37020).