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Wellness Emporium Murfreesboro Grand Opening July 29!

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Join our team of wellness advocates and the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce for our official grand opening Thursday July 29 from 4-6pm!

We’re giving away close to $1,000 in wellness products including several gift basket giveaways for those who attend, plus everything in the store is 10% off during the event. The first ten people who arrive from 4pm – 6pm will receive a free growler fill of Half Hill Farm’s probiotic craft kombucha and kefir sodas on tap! We will be giving away some of our most popular supplement brands including Buried Treasure, Ancient Nutrition and Vital Planet.

    

Sign up for our store newsletter and enter a chance to win one of several giveaways to subscribers as well. Representatives from Ancient Nutrition and Vital Planet will also be on hand to answer questions about their popular supplements.

Enjoy free samples of our farm’s craft probiotic kombucha and kefir sodas on tap. Learn more about who we are and the mushroom extracts, apple cider vinegar tonics, and other products we make. Speak with our wellness advocates about our wide selection of quality supplements.

Wellness Emporium Murfreesboro is located at the corner of East Main + Middle Tennessee BLVD next to MTSU between Jimmy John’s and the Boulevard Restaurant!

Here’s to your better health and well being!

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THANK YOU: I really enjoy the chances I get to write a short note on the packing slips of orders we ship out every day. We’ve grown a lot over the past few years, but we’ve not forgotten what got us here. When I ask myself ‘what good can I do today,’ the work we do everyday is the answer, and your trust makes work not feel like work at all. I am so fortunate to have started this business with family and to see it grow to include a new family of extraordinary people I trust to fulfill our wellness-focused mission every day. Thank you for giving so much purpose and meaning to the work we all do at Half Hill Farm!

LIVE GREEN: Watch this segment on Live Green Tennessee featuring Christian Grantham talking about Half Hill Farm’s mission and the products we make for better health and well being. You can find our products in over 20 stores throughout Middle Tennessee including our four stores:

Half Hill Farm restocks CBD hemp oil in Woodbury

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Half Hill Farm is now restocking our CBD hemp oil products following clarity provided  by Circuit Court Judge Royce Taylor (TN Judicial District 16). The judge acknowledged in his order of injunctive relief that hemp-derived CBD products are legal under state law. Half Hill Farm removed CBD products with an abundance of caution until we could understand whether the court intended to uphold or challenge state law.

Yesterday, Judge Taylor provided injunctive relief to business owners arrested in Operation Candy Crush ordering the return of keys and cash registers seized in raids. He also placed the burden of proof on District Attorney Jennings Jones to prove the store owners knowingly sold “marijuana,” as the indictments claim.

Judge Taylor, citing Tennessee Public Chapter 369, said the state must prove that the CBD products sold by those arrested and seized by law enforcement came from marijuana and not industrial hemp which is legal in Tennessee.

The 2017 law passed unanimously by the legislature defines industrial hemp as including “any industrial hemp-derived products that do not contain more than three-tenths of one percent (0.3%) of delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in a topical or indigestible consumer product” (TCA 43-26-102(4)(B)). Industrial hemp also includes viable and non-viable plant, plant parts, or whole plant extracts with the same THC limits and additional restrictions if the source is growers and processors licensed by the state (TCA 43-26-102(4)(A)).

State law also explicitly removes industrial hemp (non-viable industrial hemp OR products made from non-viable industrial hemp from a licensed grower or processor) from state marijuana criminal codes (TCA 39-17-415). Despite some irresponsible television and print reports citing poorly written press releases, it is legal for consumers to purchase, consume and possess industrial hemp products without a prescription.

Half Hill Farm was part of the state hemp pilot program. We wanted to create extracts but could not plant the seed we wanted or sell the product to consumers. Recent changes in state law and Department of Agriculture rules fixed both those problems (allowing high CBD variety seed and legalizing any industrial hemp derived products) and created a market for legal, safe industrial hemp products. The legal distinction in state law between marijuana and industrial hemp creates a market for state grower and processor hemp products and for retailers to offer those products with competitive choices. Without these protections the state’s hemp pilot program would likely fail.

Here is a picture of the 2017 law beside a picture of our product’s certificate of analysis. You can view these documents in our stores.

You can purchase our CBD Hemp Oil products at our store in Woodbury (Half Hill Farm – 1424 John Bragg HWY Woodbury, TN 37190) and in Bell Buckle (Wellness Emporium – 13 Webb Rd E Bell Buckle, TN 37020). You can also view full lab reports for each purchase.

UPDATE 02-28-18: District Attorney Jennings Jones has dropped all charges against store owners. If you are a district attorney in Tennessee and have law enforcement or politicians coming to you with this issue, take note and don’t make costly mistakes like this.

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Organic farm starts kombucha brewery in Woodbury

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(Woodbury, TN)  -  Half Hill Farm is opening a kombucha brewery in the Arts Center of Cannon County. The USDA certified organic farm will sell 16 oz. bottles and fill half gallon growlers of the carbonated beverage on site with both sizes available in local stores and restaurants.

The organic mushroom extract maker will team up with tempeh maker Short Mountain Cultures to work collectively as The Kitchen @ the Arts Center starting January 1. The collaboration will bring locally handcrafted fermented food & beverages to Middle Tennessee.

“We’re excited about the opportunity to share our handcrafted organic kombucha and everything we make together. It’s awesome,” said Half Hill Farm co-owner Vince Oropesa. “And it’s completely solar powered. How cool is that!” Oropesa added pointing to the Arts Center’s 30 KW solar panel system.

Half Hill Farm will also make live kombucha culture food products and barrel-aged kombucha vinegar. The farm will also expand its mushroom extracts to include Chaga, Lion’s Mane and other certified organic mushrooms.

Kombucha is sweet tea fermented with special yeast and probiotics into a carbonated beverage often flavored with fruits, vegetables, roots, or herbs. The craft of brewing and fermenting kombucha with a SCOBY (a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast) is thousands of years old.

“Making these craft products at The Kitchen with like-minded partners feels right,” Half Hill Farm co-owner Christian Grantham said. “It’s the right people, the right place and the right time to revive a sustainable food culture that has lasted centuries.”


Apple Ginger Kombucha samples don’t last long on the farm.

Follow us for more information: A grand opening date for The Kitchen has not yet been announced. You can follow Half Hill Farm on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for more information.

Photo (left to right): Vince Oropesa, Christian Grantham, Simmer Tidman, John Parker