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Hemp and CBD Oil Education
A Brief History of Hemp in the United States
While hemp is a popular topic today, this isn’t the first time the plant has been involved in our culture. It turns out that hemp has a well-documented history in the US.
Are we to be Gardeners of the Planet?
“Last month, Mt. Folly Enterprises, the parent company for Laura’s Mercantile, The Mercantile on Main, and Wildcat Willy’s Distillery, was awarded a prestigious 5-year grant from the USDA to help farmers adopt practices that benefit the environment in measurable ways.” Letter from Laura. Full Spectrum CBD made from USDA-certified organic hemp grown at Mt. Folly Farm. Laura’s Mercantile. Winchester, KY
Regenerative Agriculture: What Are Cover Crops?
Cover crops protect the soil from erosion and feed the microbial life in the soil when there’s no cash crop growing; or they can be interseeded with cash crops in a supportive role.
Health Benefits of Berberine in Goldenseal
Berberine sounds about like a miracle compound (!) – protects your liver, fights tumors, regulates blood sugar, kills aggressive germs, reduces inflammation and other damage to cells. This is why the plants which contain this compound-of-many-uses have been honored by plant-medicine traditions for centuries, including Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine and others.
State of Ecological Agriculture Spring ’23: Monitoring, Measuring, Reporting and Verifying the Regenerative Revolution?
Over the winter I was blessed to attend a fantastic trio of ecological farmer conferences-- Acres, USA; The Organic Association of Kentucky; and the Ohio Ecological Food and Farming Association; and more recently also The Real Organic Project's symposium on the future of organic and regenerative ag and the lightning fast evolution of the use [...]
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Wild Greens Tincture: Eastern Miner’s Lettuce
Eastern Miner's Lettuce: 'America's gift to salad' & jewel of our Wild Greens Tincture As Hank Shaw from Hunt-Gather-Cook shares, “The plant got its name because the Gold Rush miners ate it to stave off scurvy, which is caused by a Vitamin C deficiency... Combine this with stinging nettles and you have everything you need [...]
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State of Ecological Agriculture Winter ’23
Part 1: The Roots of Real Organic and why we must return to them Over the last several months I’ve been blessed to attend a fantastic trio of ecological farmer conferences– Acres, USA; The Organic Association of Kentucky; and the Ohio Ecological Food and Farming Association; and more recently also The Real Organic Project’s symposium […]
Is red meat good for the immune system?
Is red meat good for the immune system? There's a question that definitely was not “trending” five years ago, though a community of people have been saying this for decades. So why would beef be good for immunity? One reason is that it has Vitamin D. In lab-speak, “Red meat and meat products can contribute [...]
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USDA ‘Climate Smart Commodities’ Grant Recipient
Last summer, we applied for funding under the USDA and Natural Resource Conservation Service's 'Climate Smart Commodities' grant program. We proposed “Building whole-farm designs and market infrastructure to provide premiums for Climate Smart Farming among mid-sized agricultural enterprises in the Ohio River valley” (a mouthful I know). In December, USDA gave us a great Christmas [...]
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A Letter from Laura: Cabin Giveaway Winner, EKY Flooding, and Climate Change
Dear Friends, And the winner is Julia Truitt Poynter! Thanks to all who signed up for the Mt. Folly Farm newsletter and entered to win a stay at the Homestead. Julia and I will tour the farm, visit the distillery and the new Mercantile on Main, see our downtown. She plans to visit in October [...]
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A Letter from Laura: Drawdown!
Dear Friends, At Mt. Folly farm, we are doing big things, simply. We are part of the drawdown movement, which seeks to sequester carbon dioxide in plants, trees and soils. We have long been a part of the organic movement as well, for us meaning our products are raised in soils, part of the underground [...]
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