Hemp - A forgotten but exciting plant!

Dark green ser­rated leaves sway gen­tly in the wind. Six weeks af­ter sow­ing, the hemp plants in Klaus Böh­ler’s field in Seuzach have reached ma­tu­rity and shine in all their glory. Older peo­ple will re­mem­ber hemp as a plant used by the tex­tile in­dus­try. But it’s re­cently been re­dis­cov­ered for its health ben­e­fits, which are only now be­ing re­searched in more de­tail. In his field, Klaus grows the raw ma­te­ri­als for Biot­ta’s lat­est cre­ation, Vi­tal Plus. Ac­cord­ing to ex­perts, this in­no­v­a­tive com­bi­na­tion of freshly pressed cran­berry juice and hemp blos­som tea can help al­le­vi­ate cer­tain gy­nae­co­log­i­cal com­plaints.

Farmer Klaus Böh­ler loves the plant be­cause it grows quickly, is re­sis­tant to dis­ease and is good for the soil. Since en­ter­ing into a part­ner­ship with Biotta, Böh­ler has li­aised with Urs Di­et­rich to fur­ther de­velop the hemp pro­ject. Di­et­rich, an ex­pe­ri­enced food tech­ni­cian and head of De­vel­op­ment at Biotta, vis­its the farm on a daily ba­sis once the plants have reached ma­tu­rity and checks the taste of the hemp leaves. Be­cause Biotta needs to make sure the plants are har­vested at just the right mo­ment – as soon as the buds have opened.

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Har­vest­ing be­gins early in the morn­ing, as soon as the dew has dried. In the nearby dry­ing fa­cil­ity, wa­ter is gen­tly ex­tracted from the hemp plants and blos­som to en­sure the es­sen­tial oils and nu­tri­ents are pre­served to the great­est de­gree pos­si­ble. Once dried, the hemp plants are trans­ported to Biot­ta’s head­quar­ters in Täger­wilen TG. The close ge­o­graph­i­cal prox­im­ity of the two lo­ca­tions is ideal for Biotta, as the com­pany at­taches great im­por­tance to keep­ing trans­port dis­tances as short as pos­si­ble and work­ing hand in hand with their part­ners. In Täger­wilen, Klaus Böh­ler’s dried hemp is brewed into tea and then blended with fresh cran­berry juice, or­ange juice and date syrup to cre­ate the fi­nal prod­uct.

Farmer Klaus Böh­ler loves drink­ing hemp tea him­self. He brews it us­ing freshly plucked leaves from his field. The tea helps him to re­lax, he claims.