Welcome to our new Q+A Series with Harvey Craig! In part 1, we’re asking Harvey what originally brought him to the CBD industry and why he chooses to support small farmers.

Watch the video or keep scrolling to read interview below!

Where are you from?

“I’m originally from Massachusetts. I grew up in South Hadley, MA. I’m the youngest of 8 – 7 boys and 1 girl. I went to South Hadley High School and proceeded on to college. I ended up with a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Massachusetts. I made it out to CO as soon as I graduated – my last class was over, and I was on the road.”

What brought you to the CBD industry?

“In about 2002, a good friend of mine came down with Parkinson’s. He asked me one day, ‘Can you get me some different strains of marijuana and figure out what strains are coming from where.’ So I came up with some strains that really helped him out. I never felt like we were curing Parkinson’s, but I felt like we were helping his day-to-day living, his quality fo life. And that felt good. I knew there was something good about it. Then in 2014 when the Farm Bill brought in hemp as legal in all 50 states, I knew right then that this was something that needed to be done. I dropped everything I was doing and focused on the hemp industry.”

What is Boot Ranch Farms?

“We created Boot Ranch Farms – a gentleman Tim Scully and myself. We took a couple years, and we created a quality hemp growing system. And there’s many variables, but we learned what it takes to grow quality hemp.”

What exactly is hemp?

“The definition of a hemp plant is the cannabis plant – which is marijuana or hemp. The thing that deciphers marijuana from hemp, is hemp is the cannabis plant with less than 0.3% THC.”

Why do you source your oils from small farms?

“What we’ve learned is that large industrial scale farms simply cannot produce the quality of a hemp plant that small farmers can get. So instead of expanding the farm and going into a large scale farm, I decided it was best to go out and help other small farmers create the quality that we’re looking for. And it’s back to how it should be. Small farmers are gonna give you the best quality. I feel that if they’re growing the quality that we’re looking for, we’re happy to pay the premium for their hemp.”

 

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Steve Harvey has a CBD product. 

Wait, does he or doesn’t he? We think so. Maybe. Um, yeah, we’re not sure. What we do know is that a lot of you are searching for “Steve Harvey CBD” on the internet, and through the wonderful wizardry of Google, are magically transported here – to us at Harvey’s All Naturals – and for that we are thankful. We’re a small [real] farm located in Leadville, Colorado and we craft some of the industry’s highest quality, all-natural CBD products.

Picture of Harveys CBD Oil and Brochure

But back to Steve Harvey (and his CBD) for a hot second…

A few weeks ago, our crack analysts identified a big spike in our internet traffic, and it was something that got all of us very excited. So naturally we wanted to know where it came from. Could it have been our 78 rabid fans on Instagram (@harveysallnaturals) or the Harvey’s sticker “found” on a chairlift in Summit County, CO? Well we did some digging, and sadly it wasn’t due to our savvy marketing prowess (step it up Team Harvey!). It WAS all because of Steve Harvey and his “CBD Product”.

Harveys CBD ski sticker

You see, there was an article posted on Medium singing the benefits of a Steve Harvey’s CBD product. So we looked further and found the links from that article going to sites with, ah, let’s say, less than transparent marketing. AND, we couldn’t find Steve Harvey’s name on any of the products there! We did our own Google search and found links to some really curious pages with testimonials from celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Tom Hanks (we did not know Oprah and Tom were giving out free [ahem] endorsements) – another dead end. Even visiting Steve Harvey’s website did not reveal the cornucopia of CBD products you all seem to be searching for so passionately.

So until this fantasy CBD hits the shelves, let us be your CBD silver medal. We invite you to learn why Harvey’s All Naturals is the real deal. Read our FAQs where we dig into a bit of the science behind our brag. Find out why you only need a few drops of our product versus dropper-fulls of the competition [hint – no garbage fillers, just pure CBD goodness]. Check out the testimonials and give us a try. Use promo code FREESHIP for free shipping on your first order.

Welcome to the Harvey’s Community, we are so glad you stopped by.

 

Oil Quality

What makes Harveys All Naturals stand out from the rest of a saturated CBD market? The most simple answer to this question is Oil Quality. Most hemp is grown on large-scale industrial farms (like corn) and is processed in massive quantities. There are three main parts to this hemp / CBD industry that are considered industries within themselves: 1- Farming; 2- Extraction (Oil Processing); 3- Product Line. Most smart business people look at these three parts and say to themselves: “Farming, big investment, lots of hard work, no thanks; Extraction, very technical, big investment, no thanks; Product Line, OK, lets just buy oils on the wholesale market, make a product line and sink a bunch of money into marketing!”

Unfortunately, for many reasons, these wholesale oils are far inferior to the oils we strive for and create at Harvey’s All Naturals. We believe that farming products that are consumed by the human body (and pets) for the purpose of “long term medicinal value” starts with soil health.That is followed by using the best plant genetics available and growing them with personal attention, love and organic practices.

 

Supporting Small Farms

The next step is harvesting at the rite time and slow curing the flower in a controlled environment. We created Boot Ranch Farms as the mothership in growing the quality hemp for which we strive. Instead of expanding the farm as we grow to create what we consider a “large scale” farm, we decided that it is best not to hold all our eggs in one basket and consult with other small farmers to help them grow the quality hemp we require. By doing this, we help other small farmers make a good living by paying them a premium for their hemp.

 

Growing for Terpenes

As far as extraction goes, we have developed partnerships with some great minds that have helped create ideal processes for us that maintain mother nature’s unique natural state of these oils. This is called the entourage effect. Since this is an industry in itself, we decided it is most beneficial to pay them well to do what they do best. Unlike most hemp companies, we don’t grow for CBD, we grow for terpenes (to learn more about these amazing essence oils, check out our blog, “What are Terpenes?”). By using this method, we find that the highest quality full spectrum hemp flower oil with the natural terpenes is achieved.

 

But What About the CBD?

It should be noted that on the hemp plant there is no “CBD”, instead there is CBDA, CBC, CBG, CBN, etc. CBD comes from extensive processing – such as “decarboxylation” – which are heat processes that degrade the complex cannabidiols (CBDs) and terpenes. Most oils purchased on the wholesale market are called “isolates.” We do NOT use isolates in our products for many good reasons. Mainly, the body can build up a tolerance to these inferior quality oils and our Full Spectrum oils help exponentially over time to once again achieve long term medicinal value.

 

Keeping It Simple

For the product line, our motto is, “Simple and Effective.” We use all natural ingredients and infuse our oils into our products through special low temp processes to once again preserve our hemp oil quality. We use only hemp flower oil, not hemp seed oil (great for cooking, though it has no CBD value). We also leave some natural beneficial organic material in our oils such as lipids and chlorophyll along with the small amount of THC in the hemp plant (less than .07% in our products). We do not use sugar-based ingredients, which create an adverse effect to the benefits of the hemp oil. Through research, we feel our products create optimum health benefits and bioavailability.

 

Only Pure Goodness

In conclusion, we start by growing the highest quality hemp possible. We strongly feel this can only be achieved by small farmers. Only minimal cold-temp processing is applied to our flower to create oil as close to its natural state as Mother Nature intended. Due to this, our oils will slightly fluctuate in quality from one harvest to the next – if you were to picture a quality spectrum chart, our oils will fluctuate from one harvest to the next at the very top of the quality chart, where most other highly processed oils (80-90% of the market) will be a more consistent/straight line though way down low on that same chart. Our products are simple, healthy and extremely effective. We believe this philosophy will keep customers coming back in an overly-saturated market.

By purchasing Harvey’s CBD products, you are supporting small farmers. From all of us at Harvey’s All Naturals, we thank you!

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