Follow us Follow @good_oil Hemp farming & the Hemp Crop Hemp is a Super Crop! Not only is the hemp-seed really good for you, (click here to find out how) it is also great for the environment. The way we farm hemp in the UK for our GOOD Hemp Oil is unique. Here is why:  Why is hemp so GOOD? It is very sustainable and beneficial to the environment. Our Hemp crop is planted late in spring allowing the soil to be naturally healthy and wildlife to flourish. Uses NO Pesticides or Herbicides. Provides an excellent habitat for wildlife during the summer months and valuable feeding grounds on the fallow land over winter. Has a long tap root that is excellent for soil structure an health. It is a very efficient carbon sequester. In fact it is 4 times more efficient than trees for the same area. It does not require much fuel to grow and harvest it, as timely sowing, good husbandry and beneficial crop rotation means that there is no need for weed control during the growing period (either mechanical or chemical). The variety of Hemp we grow for the GOOD Hemp products does not contain any THC making our GOOD products entirely safe to consume. Share | |   Hemp has many uses, and nothing is wasted!  Once harvested we use the seeds for our GOOD Hemp Seed Oil, and the rest of the crop is used for the following: The straw is used to make Hemcrete, one of the most eco-friendly building materials available. It works as a great insulator as well as 'locking' CO2. To read about sustainable building projects using Hemcrete click here The fibre is supplied to BMW for the doors of 3 & 5 Series cars. The fibre reduces the weight per car by approximately 1kg, thus enabling fuel efficiency. It can also be used to make home insulation to replace Glass Fiber. The dust cleaned from the seed is supplied to worm farms. Leaf matter supplies essential nutrients back to the soil as a natural fertiliser. Every 800 bottles of GOOD Hemp Seed Oil produces enough hemp straw to build an entire Eco-house. This amount of straw locks a net gain of 7.5t of CO2. More than annual CO2 produced by the average household.   Put another way, 1 bottle of GOOD Hemp Seed Oil produces enough straw to lock the equivalent CO2 produced by the average 40 mile car journey.

The GOOD Process

There are two ways of making oil: the way that mankind has done it for centuries and the modern way.

The Ancient way is to press oil from the Olive, Seed or Grain physically. Gravity is then used to filter the oil (the heavier solids gradually settle at the bottom). Pure oil is siphoned off the top, and that’s it. The taste is as close to the original raw ingredient as you can get.

The Modern way, typical in lower and medium priced Olive Oils, is to extract oil chemically and then refine the crude oil by Degumming, Bleaching and Deodorizing.

We use the Ancient method (of course!) to keep the taste and GOODness of the raw ingredient. So this is what we do:

•  Grow Hemp without herbicides or pesticides
•  Harvest the seeds with the upmost care
•  Dry the seeds immediately to retain the goodness and delicious flavour
•  Carefully select the best seeds
•  Clean the seeds
•  Cold Press the seeds to squeeze out the oil
•  Use gravity to filter the oil over time
•  Bottle the oil at the farm