sunrise over hemp field
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Growing Hemp with Regenerative Agriculture

You’ve probably hear the term “regenerative agriculture” or “regenerative farming” but what exactly does it mean? And why raise hemp using these methods? Regenerative agriculture is a holistic approach to farming that seeks to restore, build, and nurture healthy soil, promote biodiversity, sustain healthy ecosystems, and foster an equitable and sustainable economy. It’s about taking…

cherry wine hemp flowering
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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…

early Cherry Wine hemp flower
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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…

freshly transplanted Cherry Wine hemp plant
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Summer Solstice Hemp Report

Most of the hemp seedlings have been transplanted from their nursery pots into their final homes in the ground. With summer solstice coming up this week, everything is right on schedule. The young plants were just starting to outgrow their pots so they’re very happy to be in the earth now where their roots can…

hemp in fall colors
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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…