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Hometown hemp: New Harvest Botanicals set to open facilities this summer
April 25, 2019-Katie Kuba-Featured, News
BUCKHANNON – A new day has dawned in the field of agriculture, and entrepreneurs Jason and Jamie Queen have titled their latest business venture – New Harvest Botanicals LLC – to indicate as much.
Beginning this summer, the couple plans to launch a business that dries hemp and processes it into pure cannabidiol oil, commonly referred to as CBD oil. Already, the Queens have contracted with numerous farmers in Upshur County who have secured hemp-growing permits from the West Virginia Department of Agriculture for the 2019 growing season.
Exactly how many farmers are the Queens working with?
“That number’s changing every day,” Jason Queen told My Buckhannon in a recent interview about their emerging business. “We just talked to two more farmers this morning, but I can tell you we’ve contracted with farmers for over 100 acres. Some are growing one to two acres, some are growing 15 acres.”
The Queens are farmers, too, so they’ll be growing 10 acres of hemp themselves on their farm, a separate business registered as New Harvest Farms LLC.
A number of individuals and organizations have recently credited CBD oil – the substance the Queens plan to extract from locally grown hemp – with providing numerous health benefits, such as relief from chronic seizures, chronic pain and inflammation, anxiety and insomnia, and hemp has 27,000 known uses, Jason said. It can be fashioned into plastics, construction materials and much more.
Although similar to marijuana, hemp contains less THC and was removed from the Schedule I drug list in 2018. However, any product containing CBD which offers claims of health or other therapeutic benefits must be approved by the FDA.
To learn exactly how did the Queens’ interest in growing and processing hemp sprouted, keep reading.
The seeds of New Harvest Botanicals are planted
Jason, who spent 20 years in law enforcement, said he and his wife, Jamie, have always been entrepreneurs who’ve taken a keen interest in emerging businesses. Jamie owns the pet-focused photography business, Wet Nose Photos, and Jason managed a security business.
So, when plans for bioRemedies to locate to the old armory on Route 20 South were announced, the Queens’ ears perked up .
“I’ve always been interested in farming, and Jamie’s from Valley Head, so it kind of fascinated us,” Jason said. “We’re entrepreneurs. We always have been. We love businesses, and when things come along, we try to see that and see what the future is.”
Jason said he approached the owners of bioRemedies about providing security services for the building they hoped to turn into a hemp-processing facility. However, as Jason learned more about the future of hemp, he was hooked.
“Then, I started learning more about the hemp and the future of it, and it quickly went from the security side of it to, ‘Let’s grow hemp,’” he recalled.
That’s when the Queens decided to buy small piece of processing equipment.
But when a split occurred within bioRemedies, and a new company, Rx Remedies, was formed, the Queens knew there were a lot of farmers with hemp permits in the area waiting for an arena in which to have their product processed into CBD oil.
“We saw all our friends and other farmers were kind of in the same boat, so it quickly ramped up to, ‘Let’s open an extraction facility,’” he said.
So, they decided to upsize to the largest piece of drying equipment they could find.
For the record, the Upshur County Development Authority has terminated its lease with bioRemedies, according to UDCA executive director, Rob Hinton. Then, in March 2019, the UCDA executed a lease agreement with Rx Remedies LLC, which, like bioRemedies, manufactures hemp-derived CBD products and still has plans to move into the armory, Hinton said Wednesday.
Unlike Rx Remedies , which sells finished products containing CBD oil, the Queens will be processing clean or “pure” CBD oil, which they’ll sell to companies like Rx Remedies who market finished products.
They’ve purchased 10 acres of farmland where they’ll cultivate a hemp crop as well as the largest hemp drying machine they could buy from a China-based company.