Say Hello to Hemp Salad Dressings

Add a “wow” to your favourite dishes with new, tasty salad dressings made with our Australian grown premium quality hemp seed oil. There are six great flavours to choose from, all made using natural ingredients with no artificial colours, flavours or preservatives. Balsamic, honey mustard, lemon, sweet chilli, ginger garlic and pure hemp. Versatile and…

Uses of Hemp

Hemp is an incredibly useful plant that can feed us, clothe us, house and medicate us. No only does hemp provide the essentials in life but it does it sustainably. It’s grown in most parts of the world with a minimum of resources, and improves soil health at the same time. It returns atmospheric carbon…

Attitudes Towards Hemp Foods

Hemp has been incredibly polarizing especially since the 1970’s. Practical uses to save mankind versus the illicit substance that was once thwarted as responsible for destroying peoples brains. We know the latter is untrue. Other demonizing claims about hemp were used as political propaganda to end its true potential as being a plant that would…

Sustainable Hemp

Hemp is quite possibly the most sustainable crop we can grow. There are many reasons why. It’s good for the soil, good for the air, it’s good for our health and hemp clothes us as well. Hemp also has an important sustainability role in our modern lives by replacing plastic with biodegradable solutions. Hemp surrounds…

How to Use Hemp Oil

One of our most frequently asked questions (FAQ’s) is “how to use hemp oil”, especially for the kitchen. Hemp is one of our first farmed crops, and hemp seeds have been consumed for thousands of years. Considering the nutritional properties of hemp, it’s little wonder that it’s been a staple food for millennia. Cooking with…

Hemp Seed Oil and CBD.

It’s easy to get confused about hemp. From nutritional, medicinal, fibre, forage and more, each side of hemp is a discovery on it’s own. Most confusion lies around hemp foods, THC and medicinal CBD products. Do hemp foods contain CBD? If I eat hemp foods will I return a positive drug test? Will hemp seed…

Growing Better Hemp Varieties.

There’s a lot of research going on around Australia to discover new hemp varieties which are best suited to our climate, soils and latitudes. We’re still learning how to grow the best yielding crops from a plant which is largely undomesticated. Comparing New Hemp Varieties The Industrial Hemp Variety Trials (IHVT) are a number of…

Winner – SA Food Awards

Good Country Hemp have won the Emerging Business category of the 2021 SA Premiers Food and Beverage Industry Awards. Held at the Adelaide Convention Centre last Friday night, the Awards gala dinner was attended by the Premier Steven Marshall, the South Australian Governor Frances Adamson, other state ministers and 940 South Australian food industry identities. The…

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Hulled Hemp Seed ~ Australian grown ~ Family Owned & Operated PADDOCK – Australian grown hemp seed, farmed in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia. Hemp replenishes and returns valuable organic matter back to the soil. It builds the soil with natural goodness and boosts soil nutrients and vitality. The thick canopy growth of…

We’re a food awards finalist!

Hemp foods – a great new product! Fantastic news for Good Country Hemp this week. We have been announced as a finalist in the SA Premier’s Food and Beverage Industry Awards in the new products category. Last week we were scrutinized by 3 independent judges via an online interview. We took the maximum interview time…

Becoming carbon neutral.

Whenever we talk about hemp, we talk about good health. Most of us already know that hemp foods are great for your health. After all, it’s our company credo – “good health starts with good food”. But at GCH we want to go beyond good health for people and help the environment as well. We…

The rise of hemp flour.

Hemp flour is a healthy, gluten-free alternative to other plain flours, with a huge 46% dietary fibre and 21% protein, but low in carbohydrates, sugars and bad fats. With these great features we should be eating hemp bread every day! BUT hemp has a good problem – it’s gluten free! The problem is that gluten…

Keep it simple.

At Good Country Hemp we are proud to take agricultural produce from the paddock through to kitchen tables. The fact that hemp is one of the oldest agricultural products is a bonus. We don’t add anything. It’s just raw hemp seed which has been mechanically processed in a similar way to ancient times to bring…