Half Hill Farm’s seasonal taste of Summer: Watermelon Basil Kefir

We made a special batch of water kefir with locally and organically grown sugar baby watermelons and garden fresh basil! It’s peak Summer, and it won’t last long at all – now on tap for growler refills or in our new compostable cups exclusively at:

 

UPDATE 08-10-19: We are now SOLD OUT at our Woodbury store, but there’s still some on tap in Murfreesboro!

UPDATE 08-16-19: We are now SOLD OUT at our Murfreesboro store! We will absolutely bring this seasonal flavor back next year!

Half Hill Farm’s Wellness Emporium opens in Murfreesboro

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!

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

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!

Half Hill Farm to open third retail store in Murfreesboro

We are very excited to announce we’ve signed a long term lease to bring our unique brand of better health & well being to the Boro! We will be renovating for the next month or so as we get the space ready, but you can start following the progress on Facebook at Wellness Emporium – Murfreesboro or on Instagram @MurfreesboroWellness!

The new location will be our farm’s third retail store and is located at 2136 Middle Tennessee BLVD Mufreesboro, TN 37130. We will feature a few of the products we make (kombucha, kefir sodas, mushroom extracts, tonics, tinctures, teas and more) plus other items that promote better health & well being. We hope to be open in June.

Made in Tennessee: CBD full spectrum extract hemp oil

Half Hill Farm is proud to introduce our 2500mg CBD full spectrum extract hemp oil for better health & well being. Each drop is 5mg of CBD. Our farm’s hemp oils also come in 500mg (1mg per drop) and 1000mg (2mg per drop) formulations.

Half Hill Farm uses organically grown domestic industrial hemp from Kentucky that goes through CO2 extraction and then is formulated and blended in our FDA registered facility in Woodbury, Tennessee. Each batch is tested by third-party independent labs to ensure quality and compliance with results linked from the label.

Half Hill Farm was the first certified organic farm to grow industrial hemp in the state of Tennessee. We helped change state law to bring the promising health benefits of CBD to the people and were the first retailer of CBD in Tennessee. We are now on the manufacturing side producing quality CBD hemp products.

  • 500mg CBD full spectrum extract hemp oil (1 drop = 1 mg) – $48
  • 1000mg CBD full spectrum extract hemp oil (1 drop = 2 mg) – $87
  • 2500mg CBD full spectrum extract hemp oil (1 drop = 5 mg) – $189

Want to retail our products in your store? Sign up for a wholesale account here. You can purchase our farm’s CBD Hemp Oil and other CBD products at the following locations:

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.

Confusion over state hemp law leads judge to arrest business owners

We don’t want to go to jail or have our business shut down for helping people, but that is the situation we now face here in Tennessee.

This past week, 21 business owners were arrested in neighboring Rutherford County after Rutherford County District Attorney General Jennings Jones secured indictments from Circuit Court Judge Royce Taylor citing a 2015 law that limited sales and possession of CBD. The problem, as Tennessee Hemp Industries Association President Joe Kirkpatrick points out, is that the law was updated in May 2017 unanimously by the Tennessee State Legislature and signed by Governor Haslam (Tennessee Public Chapter 369). That mistake could have caused harm to those doing it legally.

The definition of “industrial hemp” is a clear exception to the definition of marijuana under both state law and the 2014 Farm Bill, which created the industrial hemp pilot program. The TNHIA does not take a position on marijuana legislation, only on hemp legislation. If the products in question are “industrial hemp” derived, the TNHIA takes grave exception to the actions of Rutherford County law enforcement.

Unless the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department and the Murfreesboro, Smyrna, and LaVergne municipal law enforcement investigators can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the CBD products were derived from a “marijuana” source rather than an “industrial hemp” source, they are in clear contravention of the law allowing the growth, processing, blending, and marketing of such products, and the victims of this action should be entitled to petition for any economic and/or punitive damages applicable under the law.

- Joe Kirkpatrick, President Tennessee Hemp Industries Association

The new 2017 law removes industrial hemp and any dirivatives with .3% or less THC from the state’s marijuana criminal code and allows for legal possession without a doctor’s prescription as long as the product is clearly labeled and sourced to a licensed grower or producer. Judge Jones relied on an older version of the law requiring stricter rules.

We have seen first hand what this amazing plant can do for veterans and for families helplessly caught in a policy-driven opioid crisis that has our country in a state of declared national emergency. It is unfortunate that the lawful good we can do is declared criminal by a Rutherford County District Attorney while those fomenting this national opioid crisis continue to profit on addiction and death.

Despite our confidence in state law and the products we carried that helped many customers from all walks of life, one DA and a circuit judge has undermined that confidence for us and an entire industry. We hope more clarity and education about the law does result from this. Due to the confusion and actions taken against other businesses, we have removed CBD products from our Woodbury store until we receive clarity from the 16th Judicial District of Tennessee on state industrial hemp laws. You can purchase our TN Public Chapter 369 compliant CBD products at the Wellness Emporium of Bell Buckle, TN.

UPDATE 02-17-2018: We’ve now restocked our Woodbury store with our CBD hemp oil products following clarity from the court.

UPDATE 02-28-2018: 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.