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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!

Half Hill Farm to open third retail store in Murfreesboro

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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.

Construction begins on hemp testing and CO2 extraction lab In Woodbury

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Half Hill Farm began construction on a hemp testing and supercritical CO2 extraction lab today at their Woodbury location. The lab will be one of only a few such facilities across the state.

Hemp farmers and manufacturers will be able to send crop or product samples to the lab for required testing to ensure quality and state compliance. The expansion will also help integrate Half Hill Farm’s partnered indoor hemp grow operations with production of high quality supercritical CO2 extractions for food, beverage and supplement makers.

“Bringing this healing plant to the people and keeping the value of the crop close to home is important to us,” said co-owner Christian Grantham. “Tennessee is ready to lead in this growing industry, and we are proud to keep this investment in Woodbury.”

This year, more than 2,700 industrial hemp grower licenses were issued to farmers by the Tennessee Department of Agriculture. The state’s chapter of the Hemp Industries Association, the lobbying arm for farmers and industry stake holders, is now the largest in the country.

“Hemp is going to change our country,” said co-owner Vince Oropesa. “What I see it do for our customers will make a believer out of anyone.”

Since many customers use CBD products for personal health reasons, Half Hill Farm created partnerships to monitor the entire growing process from seed to flower harvest. The new lab will take those select buds and prep them for sale or extract them into oils.

“Our commitment to health and wellness runs deeper than the buzz of hemp,” said co-owner Scot Smotherman who is leading the farm’s hemp growth. “Being involved in the entire growing process all the way to extraction is critical to controlling quality.”

Half Hill Farm was the first certified organic farm to grow hemp in Tennessee. They are a licensed industrial hemp grower and processor and permitted manufacturer making CBD hemp products in an FDA registered facility under Good Manufacturing Practices. The farm got its start making mushroom extracts that are used across the country by cancer patients as adjunct therapies in consultation with a doctor.

Half Hill Farm recently opened two new health and wellness stores operating as the Wellness Emporium in Bell Buckle and Woodbury with plans to open two more this Spring. Their beverage and tonic manufacturing expansion late last year now has their products in 15 stores in Middle Tennessee with plans to expand for distribution later this year.

In addition to their popular functional beverages, mushroom extracts and apple cider vinegar tonics, Half Hill Farm also makes quality CBD hemp oil extract blends in 500mg, 1000mg, and 2500mg formulas and a 1000mg full spectrum CBD hemp topical salve.

The new hemp testing and extraction lab will be operational in the Summer. You can follow Half Hill Farm’s progress on FaceBook.

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.

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!

Introducing our farm’s Ginger Beet Water Kefir Shrub

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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

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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.