Laura's Homestead Alternatives

Laura turned 62, though she felt like a kid most days. It’s hard not to notice that young people are leading the charge to protect the earth’s climate, and she's trying to stay right with them. On the farm they are practicing regenerative agriculture. One of their learnings was from years of farming, then merging with the industrial food system, did not bring the environmental change we needed.
Function In Disaster
Laura's turning point (at least so far) came when Laura had a serious horseback riding accident that left her with nagging, chronic full-body pain. She sold the beef company, retired and moved. My daughter was running the farm and in 2015 started raising hemp in Kentucky’s innovative program. Still recovering and a farmer at heart, I visited several times a year, attending some of the hemp meetings around the state.It was at one of these meetings I learned about CBD from hemp, but the first product she tried, a CBD isolate, didn’t work. So, I wrote off CBD, focusing on hemp for grain and dark chocolate for healthy candy. Later that year, a fellow hemp producer told me about full-spectrum CBD and suggested a dosage, while another person forwarded me the National Institute of Health patent on CBD.
Laura tried CBD again, and it worked! Her full-body pain from the horseback riding accident vanished, and her osteoarthritis was much improved. Laura knew Mt. Folly needed to grow this, and so she did.
The horseback riding accident almost did her in. It took her years to recover. With help from CBD, Laura can enjoy the outdoors, whether it’s on the courts or in the fields.
Finish In StyleGetting well, gave her the gumption to start her last project: addressing climate change by developing a sustainable climate system.
Here is how it works:
1) They farm organically (which makes for superior CBD), and farm regeneratively to to sequester carbon through year-round photosynthesis on crop land, building soil humus and stabilizing organic matter in crop soils. We rotate our cow herd through small, separate pastures, mimicking buffalo herds. We leave delicate timberland alone.
These practices can sequester large amounts of carbon, at low cost.  Once we are confident that the practices are practical for other farmers, and have a good measurement of the carbon sequestered, I will promote this solution with everything I’ve got.
2) We are part of our regional economy, which, with reduced transportation and energy costs, along with good jobs, is part of the solution. Sequestering carbon on the farm, then attaching the farm to the industrial food system, won’t work. The farm is a fraction of the problem, and we seek to solve the whole. 

Every obstacle, every solution, brings more questions. We need a community to develop a system which works to solve the climate crisis while working for our community.
Whether you are a customer, a visitor, a correspondent, or a friend — and I hope all four! — thank you for your interest in this story. Please join us. We are succeeding because we are Hemp Powered!

What does full spectrum CBD oil mean?

Full spectrum CBD oil means the product contains many cannabinoids beyond CBD, such as CBD, CBDV, CBN, CBG, THC delta9, THC delta8, THCV, CBG, CDC, THCA and CBDA. Full spectrum CBD oil also contains other compounds from the hemp plant, including naturally-occurring terpenes, essential vitamins, fatty acids, protein and more. 
What extraction process is used to create Homestead Alternatives CBD products?
We use supercritical CO2 extraction, which is among the safest, cleanest methods to extract plant compounds.
LAURA’S HOMESTEAD ALTERNATIVES EXTRA STRENGTH FULL SPECTRUM HEMP CBD OIL (3,000MG CBD)
A natural remedy for life’s aches and pains. Our full spectrum CBD oil is made from USDA-certified organic hemp grown at Laura’s Mt. Folly Farm. Many of our customers are drawn to CBD oil for relief from joint pain, chronic pain, nerve pain, and other conditions caused by inflammation.