Our Approach To Hemp In The UK
Founder Steve Glover created UK Hemp to bring the benefits of the hemp plant to UK farmers, food manufacturers and consumers. He partnered with Dan Harrold in 2020, Dan is a partner and farm manager of Mel-Able Farming, a successful arable farm in Kings Lynn Norfolk. Dan grows around 60 hectares of Finola annually exclusively for UK Hemp.
Dan doesn’t use any pesticides or herbicides when growing hemp and uses mostly farmyard manure as fertiliser. Mel-Able Farming uses biodiversity and sustainability practices to encourage wildlife including wildlife sensitive hedge management and planting, pollinator borders and wildflower strips, bat and bird boxes, building and maintaining of ponds, wildlife sensitive management of dead wood, building beetle banks and devoting margins to wildlife.
Product
At UK Hemp we test every batch of seed for pesticides, herbicides, glyphosate, heavy metals, mycotoxins and microbiology to ensure that our products are suitable for food use. We call this “better than organic” as we actually test everything that comes in, unlike organic systems.
All our processing is mechanical and no chemicals are used. Seed is cleaned on the farm and then cleaned again in our award winning SALSA accredited factory before either pressing for oil or de-hulling. Once oil is pressing the seedcake is fed into a mill to create our three powder products, fibre plus, protein 40 and protein 50. Oil is cold pressed at less than 25 degrees and then filtered to ensure purity. Seed is also dehulled using mechanical means only.
In 2022 UK Hemp took over the importation and distribution of C1 seed for cultivation and became the exclusive UK distributor for Finola. In 2025 UK Hemp imported over 11 tonnes of cultivation seed, making us the biggest C1 hemp seed importer in the UK. This activity contributes massively to food security, employment, financial stability, the reduction in CO2 and to building resilience within the farming community.
The Triple Bottom Line
We operate a “triple bottom line” where the people, the environment and profit are equally important. At UK Hemp we believe in paying the farmers as much as we possibly can – we didn’t want to be one of those “middle men” type of companies that drive down the prices for our suppliers and drive up the costs to our customers. Hemp sequesters more carbon per hectare in its 3 month growing cycle than a rainforest.
Compelling British Ingredients
People want to eat healthier and with less impact on our planet — but they don’t want to compromise on quality. UK Hemp ingredients bridge that gap. So, instead of healthier products that customers tolerate, brands can create products their customers rave about.
We see hemp powering a new generation of tasty, hemp plant-based foods that are good for us and our planet; enabling food companies to create better foods and as a result unlock the value of the hemp seed for us, our growers and the environment.
As Brexit begins to bite, it is extremely important that we support UK farmers and processors in the search to develop UK grown plant proteins and fibres, not only for reasons of financial sustainability but also from a carbon footprint perspective.
Get in touch :
UK Hemp Ltd
Factory Lane
Warminster
Wiltshire
BA12 8LT