These single-source CBD extracts make the plant glow
How Acknowledge Farm’s low-intervention, whole-plant approach makes high-quality hemp tinctures from scratch.
A woman-founded company, Acknowledge Farms is focused on growing the finest organic, cannabinoid-rich hemp on its western Maryland land, allowing them a “hands-off” approach to producing their single-source extracts. approach to follow.
Once harvested, her buds go through a low-heat extraction method that preserves the best beneficial compounds straight from the plant. After rigorous third-party testing, these tinctures hit store shelves with just two ingredients: hemp extract and pure, organic safflower oil.
Then the cycle begins again. Hemp is an incredibly sustainable crop, but only if you grow it properly. By using regenerative farming techniques, Acknowledge Farms not only protects their land for future harvests, but also for future generations.
Here we will explore how Acknowledge’s decision to honor the plant in both its cultivation and extraction techniques results in more sustainable hemp and a healthier product.
Grow better hemp
At Acknowledge, every step of the growing process is handled with care—and with a light touch. Each strain is carefully selected for its unique characteristics and then sun grown in its Maryland microclimate. Each harvest is done by hand.
When the harvest is complete, the harvest will feature a rich concentration of cannabinoids and natural terpenes, ready to be extracted in small batches.
If you set everything up correctly from the start, you hardly have to do anything, and that starts with the floor. Regenerative agriculture, which looks at a farm and its ecosystem holistically, keeps the soil between crops rich and keeps the farm’s carbon footprint low – unlike most industrial farms, which deplete biodiversity, waste water and accelerate soil erosion, which harms both the land and the crops.
This way, the post-harvest crop will have a rich concentration of cannabinoids and natural terpenes, ready to be extracted in small batches.
The entire entourage directly from a single source
In the late 1990s, scientists studying cannabis suggested that each element of the cannabis plant worked together to produce unique effects. They dubbed this phenomenon the “entourage effect,” and that’s why each strain works a little differently—each has different ratios and concentrations of cannabinoids, terpenes, flavonoids, and other botanicals. That’s why Blue Dream has fruity notes and Northern Lights smells a bit like pine.
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When you see a “strain” associated with a product in hemp-based products, it is usually just a reconstruction of a cannabis strain made from isolated cannabinoids and isolated terpenes to create something like the original, and not usually to get a real hemp strain straight from the earth. Often these building blocks don’t even come from the same place.
The strains at Acknowledge Farm are grown for their own virtues, so each of their potent tinctures truly comes from a single source. The Forbidden V tincture is naturally high in CBD, CBC, and concentration-boosting CBDV (and oozes tropical flavor) because it contains the Forbidden V strain—not what’s on a lab’s shelves.
Preserving the whole package requires a careful approach, even after harvest. Acknowledge sends its buds to its neighbor Catoctin Hemp for small batch extraction. Some cannabis compounds are volatile and easily lost with common extraction methods, so Catoctin uses a butane extraction that allows for lower heat. This creates rich, solvent-free extracts that cling to all the good stuff and really let each strain’s subtlety shine.
Science meets sustainability
MCT oil (medium chain triglycerides), often derived from coconut oil, has become popular in the industry as an indication of a quality extract, but is it the best option? How well you absorb a cannabis extract depends on its bioavailability, or how much your body can actually absorb. In fact, CBD is most available when combined with a long-chain fatty acid like safflower or grapeseed oil, rather than a medium-chain one.
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Acknowledge uses organic safflower oil in its products. Thriving in ecosystems like theirs, safflower is grown natively in the United States, is attractive to local pollinators and beneficial insects, and is low in allergy, making its use a win-win for both quality products and sustainability goals.
Total transparency
When multiple extracts go into a single hemp product, they can all come from very different sources — and that’s a lot to keep track of. Since Acknowledge sources their hemp from their own farm, they know firsthand that everything is organic, sustainably grown and meets their high standards. Products are only given to a trusted neighbor once throughout the process, making it easy to trace a tincture’s journey from seed to shelf to ensure quality.
You don’t even have to take their word for it, as each batch is tested for potency and purity by a third-party lab—and each result is publicly available on their website, showing levels of a wide variety of cannabinoids and a variety of terpenes.
Unparalleled results
This is the entourage effect as it was meant to be enjoyed – from the ground up.
Single-origin extracts, when crafted correctly, will give you a big boost in quality with no loss of potency. A 30mL bottle of Forbidden V tincture can contain 1,500 grams of CBD and 900 mg of CBDV along with the natural terpene and cannabinoid profile, sourced straight from the plant, including CBC, THCV and even a tiny touch of THC (less than 2 milligrams per dose). The natural, tropical-tinged hemp flavor comes from rich terpenes, particularly caryophyllene.
This is the entourage effect as it was meant to be enjoyed – from the ground up. Visit the Acknowledge Farms website to see what single source whole plant tinctures are available this season.
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