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PHOTOS: In Your Business at Mount Horeb Hemp
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Hemp plants grow at Mount Horeb Hemp farm. Owner Kattia Jimenez loves to watch farm visitors’ surprise at seeing hemp plants for the first time. “You know, it’s cannabis. It smells like what you would expect it to smell like. It looks like what you would expect it to look like,” Jimenez said.
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Kattia Jimenez, owner of Mount Horeb Hemp, talks about the goats, chickens and pigs that she keeps at her farm in Mount Horeb. Jimenez uses the goat milk to make one of her products, hemp and goat milk soap, which is available in two scents.
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Kattia Jimenez, owner of Mount Horeb Hemp, walks towards her house and the hemp drying building on her farm in Mount Horeb. Jimenez founded Mount Horeb Hemp in 2018, and her business specializes in cannabidiol (CBD) products such as CBD oil, hemp and goat milk soap and CBD muscle cream.
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Kattia Jimenez, owner of Mount Horeb Hemp, poses for a photo at her farm. “Hemp has been just such a wonderful new part of my life,” said Jimenez, who started the farm in 2018 after years as a health researcher for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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One of Mount Horeb Hemp's products is its Full Spectrum CBD oil. While owner Kattia Jimenez initially planned to grow hemp to sell to processors, a glut in the hemp market has since led her to begin producing and selling her own line of CBD products.
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Hemp plants grow at Mount Horeb Hemp farm. Owner Kattia Jimenez regularly invites people to visit her farm to learn about the jobs and wealth-building that the hemp industry could offer to members of communities currently underrepresented in the industry.
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Kattia Jimenez, owner of Mount Horeb Hemp, discusses the original buildings on her farm in Mount Horeb. Jimenez has owned the property since 2005 and turned it to hemp production in 2018, the first year after Wisconsin legalized the industry.
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A chicken peeks out of the barn at Kattia Jimenez's Mount Horeb Hemp farm. Jimenez said the chickens are still choosing to stay mostly inside of the barn due to the weather.
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