Head & Heal has been in the business of growing industrial hemp since 2017, but they have been a Certified Organic vegetable farm for the past 10 years. While much of their hemp is harvested for oil extraction, it is also grown to produce topicals and the flower itself. CEO and Co-founder, Karli Miller-Hornick is also the Owner & Founder of Florist Farms, a new business that focuses solely on curating a variety of strains for the sale of whole hemp flower. Her business partner, Allan Gandelman, is the Founder & President of the New York Cannabis Growers and Processors Association, working directly with representatives of New York State to ensure that farmers have a voice in the laws that govern the production, sale, and consumption of hemp products in the state. With their experience and dedication combined, they have seen massive growth over the last few years, and taken the CBD industry to a whole new level. We’re thankful for all of their hard work and to be a small part of their success thus far.

Karli said this was her first time seeing their brand new tumbler trimmer.

Bags of hemp line the walls of the warehouse.

This machine tumbles & trims the hemp flower.

A view from a window of the lab where extraction and formulation takes place.

Beautiful sky above a field of hemp.

While Head & Heal might seem like a huge operation, they are still small farmers at heart. With less than 50 employees, they do all of the planting, harvesting, extraction, formulation, bottling, and shipping at their farm and facilities in Cortland. Once the hemp season has come and gone and the cold weather sets in, they get to work washing roughly 7,000 lbs. of carrots every week that are then sent down to the city in huge truckloads. Karli says carrots are their most popular veggie, incredibly easy to grow on their farm, and they (obviously) have plenty of them to go around. Because of the carrots, they are able to keep their employees employed year-round, something that Karli really values as a business owner.