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.
Why All Our CBD Products Are Tested
Why do we have all our products tested by a lab for potency and purity? Maine doesn’t require CBD testing and it’s expensive but we do it anyway. The CBD market is largely unregulated so there are poor quality and even potentially dangerous products out there. Label Accuracy Take potency. Researchers have found that CBD…
Can CBD Help Pets?
Seems like CBD products for pets are everywhere now but are they for real? Can CBD actually help a dog or cat? Or is pet CBD just another marketing gimmick? Veterinary researchers are just starting to study how CBD affects domestic animals. Some of these scientists report that CBD can indeed help treat certain conditions…
Planting Hemp
We’re two weeks past the Spring Equinox and the time has arrived to plant this year’s hemp crop. The last of the snow has melted but nights can still be quite cold here in Maine (and the days too!) through April and May, so the seeds get started indoors. This allows the plants to get…
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…
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…
Does CBD Help With Sleep?
(note: FDA Disclaimer) It’s been hours since you went to bed exhausted yet here you are tossing and turning in frustration. Or maybe it’s the wee hours of the morning and you’ve woken long before it’s time to get up. These are just two of the more common scenarios people struggling with sleep face. Poor…
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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…
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…
