Our Farm
Red Clay Farm, LLC is located in Tanner, Alabama, 20 miles west of Huntsville.
On our 15 acres, we apply the Permaculture principles of taking care of people, taking care of the planet, and sharing our bounty. We use nature to help us farm sustainably, treating the soil with respect, using organic methods to grow our products, fertilizing with compost and compost tea, and using nature to combat pests.
Our flock of guinea hens and chickens thrive on unwanted insects and provide natural fertilizer to the earth.
Purple Martin families eat flying insects and keep away predatory hawks and raptors.
The fields, when not in production, lie in a natural, uncut state, planted in nitrogen-enriching ground cover, which provides shelter to doves, rabbits, and other small creatures.
Our stocked pond is an oasis for our ducks, geese, and the resident Great Blue Heron, while the catfish and bass take care of the mosquito larvae.
Honey bees, owls, bats, snakes, turtles, and an occasional fox round out the circle of life that is Red Clay Farm.
Mission
Our Mission is to provide quality, organically grown CBD products to support a healthy, holistic lifestyle. Our values are Hearth, Health and Hope, which we strive to live every day.
We believe finding relief through natural hemp botanicals should be an affordable option for everyone. We love and support our
veterans, teachers and first responders and offer a 10% discount to these heroes.
Our Story
We are two Service Disabled Veterans who bonded over a love of agriculture and a dream to build an organic, permaculture based, sustainable farm.
We know that natural is best and we maintain our farm living our core values of Hearth, Health, and always, Hope. Recognizing that hemp derived CBD products provide non-medicinal, holistic relief from many ailments. We took a leap of faith and decided to plant a crop of hemp in the spring of 2020.
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Stepping into the fledging Alabama hemp industry required negotiating the many certificates, permits, permissions, licenses, approvals and inspections and committing to a mostly trial and error process of planting of a crop whose secrets of growth and harvest perished over 50 years ago. Our two acres of T1 and Berry Blossom (over 3,000 plants) were organically grown, much to the delight of the many weeds that co-existed in the fields.
Aided throughout the season by frequent rains and moderate temperatures, and no late season tornados or hurricanes (thankfully), we finally received the highly anticipated approval from the Alabama state laboratory to harvest. Farmers walk a very fine line, wanting to mature the plants as long as possible in the field to maximize the levels of CBD, while ensuring the THC levels remain under .3%, the legal limit for hemp. During a perfectly warm and dry October week, we hand harvested our 4500 pounds of healthy and thriving plants.
Our hemp plants were patiently hung dried (not heater dried) to preserve the delicate terpenes (aromas) and oils. It was important to us to keep our operation local so we selected a processor close to us, Green Acres Organic Pharms, located in Florence, Alabama, to process our hemp (greeneacresorganicpharms.com).
Green Acres Pharms pioneered a revolutionary and much cleaner processing method using Hydrocarbon Extraction to carefully extract the CBD distillate from the biomass, unlike typical processing that utilizes ethanol alcohol to distill the cannabinoids. Hydrocarbon extraction, though more expensive and time consuming, produces a cleaner, more pleasant tasting and smelling product than typically found on the market, while retaining all aromas, cannabinoids and terpenes. Our efforts paid off as we produced a bumper crop of hemp, containing over 24% CBD!
Revolutionary Process
