It’s Hemp Flower Harvest Time!
The 2025 hemp flower harvest was early this year, with smaller plants, but the flowers look and smell fantastic.
Farm Report: Hemp Flowering Finale
A brief peek at the 2025 organic hemp crop at Bald Mountain Botanicals in Maine, where the hemp flowering is well ahead of schedule.
Outdoor Sungrown Flower: What the Science Says
Why do we grow our hemp flower outdoors rather than in the more controlled environment of an indoor space? Two main reasons we prefer outdoor sungrown flower: In our subjective experience–and we’re certainly not alone here–flower grown outside in living soil is better than flower grown indoors. Better in the sense that it has superior…
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Hemp Harvest 2024
The big moment has arrived: the first hemp flowers are reaching the peak of ripeness and it’s time to begin the harvest. We’re about 2 weeks early this year, which is great as the weather can turn treacherous in October. Been quite a stretch of fair, dry weather since Labor Day, which helps ripen the…
First Flowers – Midsummer Hemp Report
It’s the last week of July and I’m just starting to see a few of the hemp plants beginning to flower–days are getting noticeably shorter now, about 14 1/2 hours today, enough to get the hemp started on the big transition from vegetative growth to flowering. A key milestone in the hemp growing season for…
The Best CBD Extraction Process
Ever wonder how hemp gets processed into CBD products? Most people probably don’t give much thought to that question. But the method used to extract CBD from the plant impacts the quality of the final product. We use a straightforward traditional process of infusing whole hemp flower in warm coconut oil which we believe is…
Hemp Harvest 2023
Harvest time is when all the hard work through the growing season comes to fruition. After dodging Hurricane Lee early in September, the hemp plants soldiered on through the rest of September and ripened quickly. Hemp harvest 2023 began in late September and continued through the first weeks of October. This year was unusually warm…
Flowering Hemp
Without a doubt the most exciting part of growing hemp is the flowering phase, which begins in mid-late summer as the days begin to shorten. This is when the plants focus all their energy on developing flowers. In the wild these flowers would get pollinated by male hemp plants and create seeds for a new…
All About Terpenes
Remember that delightful scent last time you walked through a grove of pine trees? Or added a pinch of oregano to that simmering pot of marinara sauce? What you’re smelling are terpenes, the volatile hydrocarbon molecules found in many plants. While most people focus on cannabinoid content when choosing hemp flower strains and CBD…
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Video: Why Grow Hemp Organically?
What does it mean to grow hemp flower organically and why does it matter? Join Ed out in the hemp field as he explains about raising hemp with organic farming methods and why this benefits everyone.
