Heather De Rose, co-founder of Kind Living Farm, is from Missouri. In 2015, she and her husband Antonio moved to Colorado with an interest in using cannabis to treat Heather’s epilepsy.
She says cannabis changed her life.
“I haven’t had seizures on both of these plants for four and a half years now,” DeRose said of hemp and marijuana.
Now that Missouri has legalized cannabis and medical marijuana, DeRoses has returned home and started his own cannabis farm.
Over the past year, couples have grown cannabis for personal use on about an acre of land in Cole County.
The growth philosophy of the hemp plant Kind Living Farm is to “stick to regenerative farming practices and grow as naturally as possible,” Heather Derose said.
Both Heather and Antonio Derose have financial backgrounds, but after moving to Colorado, they started working on organic medical cannabis farms in the Rocky Mountains.
Heather DeRose also has a patient cultivation license to grow marijuana under the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. Now the couple has returned their knowledge of cannabis cultivation to the Kind Living Farm.
“All that experience definitely went to cannabis cultivation,” said Heather Derose.
In addition, DeRoses runs Green House Healthy, which he founded while living in Colorado, and teaches “the benefits of cannabis as part of a healthy and active lifestyle,” according to the business website. aims for.
Health is important to them, as couples are athletes and certified personal trainers at the National Academy of Sports Medicine. One aspect of Heather Derose’s passion for hemp is the use of it as a culinary ingredient. She said this would help her performance as an athlete.
“Because both are athletes, we found that (hemp) is an easily digestible form of protein,” Heather said. “It’s available in a variety of forms, so you can add it to literally almost any recipe,” she added, adding that it contains many vitamins, nutrients, and amino acids.
Greenhouse Healthy hosted a hemp dinner featuring recipes such as hemp chili and hemp cupcakes, and set up a “hemp-giving” dinner.
Another aspect of hemp that has inspired DeRoses is its diversity. According to the Missouri Department of Agriculture, in addition to the consumption of CBD flowers and the use of hemp seeds in cooking and fuel, materials such as paper, fiber and plastic can also be made from the “fibrous stems” of plants. ..
“Our climate crisis definitely needs carbon sequestration, and hemp is a great tool for that,” said Derose. “Literally anything can be made from hemp. It’s very exciting.”
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