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Seasonal Honeysuckle Kefir almost GONE!

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HONEYSUCKLE OMG: Y’all!!!!!!!! We cannot believe how many folks came yesterday for the Honeysuckle Kefir on tap! Thank you for all the love of this gut-healthy soda alternative, especially to those superfans who drove hours to Woodbury, TN for this special taste of Spring!

We made twice as much Honeysuckle Kefir as last year and still almost sold out in 24 hours. We think we have enough to last maybe today, so get this season’s most anticipated limited release while you can Friday – exclusively at Wellness Emporium – Woodbury! We will be closed for Memorial Day.

NOW ON TAP: Seasonal Honeysuckle Kefir!

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HONEYSUCKLE KEFIR: This ephemeral taste of Spring in now on tap! Get a growler of this annual favorite for the Memorial Day weekend exclusively at Wellness Emporium – Woodbury!

This craft seasonal is made with the essence of locally harvested honeysuckle flowers. While it is the most popular seasonal kefir we make, it is also the rarest. We are limiting growler fills to 2 per customer with special limited release pricing on tap while it lasts for growler fills ($12 refill | $17 new) and 14oz bottle and cup fills ($3 refill | $4 new).

Our kombuchas and kefirs are the perfect gut-healthy soda alternative, and they’re made right here in Woodbury, TN USA! New growlers (64 oz jugs) of our regular flavors are $15 full, and you bring them back for $10 refills. Get a free sample of our limited release Honeysuckle Kefir and all the regular flavors of our kombucha and kefir on tap: Tart Cherry, Apple Ginger, Ginger Lemonade, Raw, Grapefruit, Ginger Beet, Ginger Turmeric, Elderberry, Pineapple, and Cranberry Orange – exclusively at Wellness Emporium – Woodbury!

Seasonal Honeysuckle Kefir Soda Now on Tap!

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HONEYSUCKLE KEFIR: Our farm’s first seasonal taste of Spring is now on tap! Half Hill Farm’s Honeysuckle water kefir soda is a trip through childhood memories – made with farm foraged honeysuckle and a kiss of local honey in our probiotic water kefir soda. It’s an annual favorite that never lasts long. Stop by our stores listed below and get it by the 16 oz cup or 64 oz growler refill!

Root Beer Kefir – our latest water kefir soda!

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ROOT BEER: It smells so amazing in the kitchen when the herbs are slow simmering for the Root Beer! Our newest water kefir flavor is a unique remake of a classic American craft soda with all organic sarsaparilla, ginger, star anise, birch bark, wild cherry bark, wintergreen in a probiotic water kefir soda. It’s one of several craft kefir sodas we make that’s on tap and available now by the cup or growler exclusively at the following locations:

Half Hill Farm to open fourth retail store in Jackson, TN!

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HEY JACKSON: We’ve been quietly working on a very special place to bring you Half Hill Farm’s brand of better health & well being! The Wellness Emporium of Jackson will be our farm’s fourth retail store and is located at 2046 Pleasant Plains Extension, Suite G Jackson, Tennessee 38305.

The Wellness Emporium will feature a few of the products we make (kombucha & kefir fermented to perfection on tap or by the bottle, apple cider vinegar tonics, mushroom extracts, tinctures, elixirs, teas and more) plus other items that promote better health & well being. We hope to be open in June.

Help us spread the word. Follow us on Facebook or on Instagram: @jxwellness. We can’t wait to share our love with you starting later this month!

Half Hill Farm’s Kombucha and Kefir now on tap at The Turnip Truck

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HEY NASHVILLE: We are excited to announce you can now get four flavors of Half Hill Farm’s kombucha and kefir on tap exclusively at The Turnip Truck Natural Market! Our Blood Orange, Elderberry, Tart Cherry and Ginger Lemonade are fermented to perfection and made with all organic ingredients in neighboring Woodbury, TN – now available by the growler at your favorite natural & local grocery store!

Ginger Beet Water Kefir Shrub now at Harvest Local Foods

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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!

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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!

Half Hill Farm’s Ginger Beet Water Kefir Shrub now at Juicy’s

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HEY MURFREESBORO: You can now get our farm’s Ginger Beet Water Kefir Shrub with your vegan wrap at Juicy’s Wellness Cafe of Murfreesboro (2314 Medical Center ParkwaySuite A-2 Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37129)! Each bottle is made with all organic ginger, beets, apple cider vinegar, nettles, red clover, dandelion leaf and root, and local honey with our water kefir ferment in neighboring Woodbury, Tennessee!

Organic grow plan for licensed industrial hemp farms

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Today, the Tennessee Department of Agriculture began mailing out over 2,700 industrial hemp grower licenses for the 2019 grow season. If the record number is any indication, it could be the start of something big in Tennessee.

We are already getting lots of calls from farmers looking for buyers of flower and biomass. One of the requirements many buyers, including our business, will want is organically grown with no evidence of pesticides or other banned inputs in organically grown hemp.

One mistaken use or exposure to a banned input could render all your hard work unusable for certain buyers or the consumer, so we created a working draft of an Organic Grow Plan for licensed industrial hemp growers that outlines a few relevant National Organic Program standards used to certify a crop as organic by the USDA. It is not a full exhaustive plan and are not requirements, but it can be a great guidance to ensure quality and get you on your way to certifying your hemp as organic.

Half Hill Farm was the first certified organic farm to grow industrial hemp in Tennessee. We are a licensed grower, processor and permitted manufacturer that makes quality CBD hemp oils and other products. We are currently partnered with an indoor grow and building a CO2 extraction and testing lab at our Woodbury, TN facility. We are one of many retailers and manufacturers who will want quality Tennessee grown flower and biomass for our stores and products and hope this document can help ensure your product passes quality testing.

Collaboration: If you are a certified organic grower of hemp, or use organic practices you feel need to be added to this document, please leave a comment with the addition or contact us directly. If you have favorite organic products you use that you’d like shared, or have questions, add them in comments. We’ll edit changes into the document. We want this document to be open sourced and available to everyone. If you are one of the many new hemp growers in Tennessee, congratulations and we hope the very best for your farm’s new direction!