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Seasonal Honeysuckle Kefir now on tap!

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HONEYSUCKLE KEFIR: Our first seasonal of the year goes on tap Thursday (May 25)! Our Honeysuckle Kefir brings back childhood memories of growing up in the South and tasting the sweetness of late Spring right from the vine.

We harvest the flowers right here in Cannon County for a wonderful Memorial Day weekend treat. Our Honeysuckle Kefir will be on tap for cup and growler refills.

Don’t forget, Thursday is also our very first bread day. Grab a loaf of locally baked sourdough bread with your growler of Honeysuckle Kefir while they last at Wellness Emporium – Woodbury!

Special harvest of Basswood honey now available!

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BASSWOOD HONEY: Scot Smotherman is obsessed with bees. He’s also one of our owners, so we get to share some rare treats like this batch of Basswood Honey from his North Carolina hives.

Basswood (Linden) honey is prized for its unique mint and herbal flavor and gut-healthy therapeutic properties. Basswood’s nectar flow usually lasts only 2-3 weeks, but when conditions are right, these trees produce significant amounts of nectar that bees love. Most Basswood honey comes from northern climates, but the Appalachians provide the best source of this honey in the South.

This batch of Basswood honey comes from our hives located near the NC/TN border at 4000ft elevation. This is the first year of 3 years at this location that we have harvested Basswood honey, so grab it while it lasts, and check out our local honey selection, at Wellness Emporium Woodbury!

Seasonal Honeysuckle Kefir now on tap!

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HONEYSUCKLE HARVEST: What an unbelievable year for honeysuckle here in Tennessee! We got an early start picking bucket loads at Meg & Brett’s place this morning – almost a week before last year’s peak. The smell and memories of picking as a child are unforgettable.

  

Honeysuckle Kefir is one of our favorite and most short-lived seasonal flavors. It’s also good for you! We make it by floating the flowers in our fermented kefir for a day. Stop by for a growler of cup while it lasts exclusively at Wellness Emporium Woodbury!

Fall Seasonal Muscadine Kombucha now on tap!

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MUSCADINE KOMBUCHA: It’s that very special time of the year when the scuppernongs start coming off the vine, and that means making a seasonal batch of our annual Muscadine Kombucha!

This limited flavor is made by Half Hill Farm from fresh, organic scuppernongs grown by Sylvia at Green Door Gourmet. It’s a probiotic taste of Fall, and it’s available on tap by the cup our growler refill while it lasts exclusively at all our stores:

Summer seasonal Blackberry Kombucha now on tap!

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BLACKBERRY SUMMER: Look at the size of the blackberries coming in to the kitchen at Half Hill Farm. They are so big and juicy that they literally exploded all over the walls from the press!

    

Shamma took most of the impact like a champ, but we are officially floor to ceiling deep in Blackberry Summer – literally two days into wiping the walls down. We can’t thank our neighbors enough for growing and picking for us this year. It is quite the year for them!

Our craft Summer seasonal Blackberry Kombucha is an annual favorite made with love from locally grown blackberries and blended with our probiotic kombucha for a cold, carbonated gut-healthy soda alternative. Get a 16 oz cup ($2.50) or 64 oz growler refill ($10) on tap exclusively at our shops:

Cold and Flu: Elderberry Syrup for better health & well being

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ELDERBERRY SYRUP: Half Hill Farm is focused more than ever on crafting natural products to boost your family’s immune system, including our farm’s new 8 oz Elderberry Syrup formula – made with all organic ingredients (elderberries, local honey, cinnamon, clove and ginger) and available now through curbside service Mon-Sat 12-4 at Wellness Emporium Woodbury next to DTC and seven days a week 10-4 at Wellness Emporium Murfreesboro at the corner of East Main + Middle Tennessee BLVD!

 

While we are currently sold out of our popular Elderberry Apple Cider Vinegar Tonic, we’ve got a new batch ready to bottle next week. We know it’s a challenging time for folks already dealing with a lot of life without adding in a pandemic. We want you to know we’re here for you, and while we can’t reach out and hug or hold your hand, do know we see you, and we’re listening to your needs. Thank you for making us your home for better health & well being!

COVID-19 Pandemic and our commitment to better health & well being

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COVID-19 PANDEMIC: Our wellness advocates are committed to your better health & well being no matter what life throws at you. During public health emergencies, our advocates are vigilant with cleaning procedures designed to disrupt transmission from touch surfaces and providing you the very best natural products to boost your immune response. We are closely monitoring CDC guidelines for businesses and will remain open with capacity limits set at 10 people in our retail spaces. We are here to arm you with knowledge, confidence and nature’s best tools to defeat fear and the health challenges fear can amplify.

While there is no known cure for COVID-19, there are a couple of ways to make transmission more difficult especially for those at higher risk. Both of them require acting on shared knowledge. The first option is entirely up to you – creating physical boundaries. Wash your hands. Don’t touch your face. Stand at a distance from others. Regularly clean your cell phone. The second option is a more elusive knowledge of natural remedies that can help amplify your immune response. Supplement your gut health with probiotics, locally fermented foods and beverage, whole food sourced vitamin and mineral supplements, elderberry, essential oils, immune boosting mushrooms and herbals.

 

We can’t be there to remind you to wash your hands, but we are here with knowledge of nature’s remedies and hand crafted quality products for better health & well being.

SHOP ONLINE: Shipping is FREE for all online orders over $150. There are coupon codes posted on the store page. If you want an item shipped from our store and do not see it listed online, please phone in your order.

SHOP OUR STORES: Stop by Wellness Emporium at the following locations and learn more.

UPDATE 3-21-20: We’ve moved to curbside service only to further protect our employees and customers. We’ve temporarily closed our Bell Buckle location. Our Jackson store has normal business hours. Below are our temporary curbside hours and locations. Thanks for your understanding!

Muscadine Kombucha – a late Summer harvest now on tap!

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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

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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.”

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Half Hill Farm’s Wellness Emporium opens in Murfreesboro

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Half Hill Farm is proud to announce our super soft opening of our third Wellness Emporium store in Murfreesboro, Tennessee! Here’s a map of your new route for growler refills of our popular kombucha and kefir fermented to perfection in neighboring Woodbury and now on tap in Murfreesboro. Stop by and check out our mushroom extracts, apple cider vinegar tonics, tinctures, teas & more for better health & well being!