What the hemp ban means for small family farms • Rhode Island Current

What the hemp ban means for small family farms • Rhode Island Current

Lovewell Farms Director of Cultivation Ryan Plante plants seedlings at the farm in the Hope Valley section of Hopkinton in May 2024. (Courtesy of Lovewell Farms)I co-founded Lovewell Farms, Rhode Island’s only USDA-certified organic hemp farm in 2018. Since 2019, we’ve been growing legal hemp outdoors, using natural ethanol extraction, and creating safe, full-spectrum CBD products like tinctures, salves, and gummies, all lab-tested, adult use on…