Canadian Cape Breton-Grown Hemp Seed Oil Hits European Stores
Pharmaceutical executive Parker Rudderham wants to tap local farms in effort to expand production.
A Cape Breton pharmaceutical executive is urging local farmers to take a chance on a new crop as the first run of his new company's hemp seed oil hits the shelves of European stores.
Highland Hemp Manufacturing and Exports produced 22,000 bottles of cold-pressed oil that was grown, processed and bottled on Cape Breton. The nutty flavoured product contains Omega-3 and Omega-6 oils and is intended for food, such as salads.
"The market for hemp is a huge market — and we got to get into this whole hog," said CEO Parker Rudderham, who is also president of Pharmacy Wholesale Services Inc.
A small piece of land at the former Sydney tar ponds was one of two sites used to grow Highland Hemp's first crop. The other was a 24-hectare site in rural Cape Breton, which Rudderham isn't identifying publicly due to...
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