Friday, May 20, 2022

you might have noticed I'm into tractors, and drag racing, and I've found someone else who is too... Matt Hagan, 3x NHRA Funny Car Champ, and he was just on Mike Rowe's podcast

 https://embeds.audioboom.com/publishing/playlist/v4?boo_content_type=channel&data_for_content_type=5060313#You%20Wear%2040%20Pounds%20of%20Gear%20Because,%20You%20Know,%20You're%20on%20Fire%20Quite%20a%20Bit

Or episode 251  https://mikerowe.com/podcast/

the Hagan family farm of 3500 acres in Virginia has a lot going on; they raise cattle, have a pick your own strawberry farm, and grow hemp for the CBD oil.
 
Founded in 2019 by 3-time NHRA Funny Car World Champion Matt Hagan, TruHarvest Farms is Southwest Virginia’s largest producer of hemp-based products.

Sourced from its Christiansburg, Va., location, TruHarvest Farms offers a comprehensive line of high-quality, hemp-derived CBD products that promote general health and wellness for individuals seeking an alternative to traditional medications and supplements.

The TruHarvest Farms backstory is compelling. Galvanized by the passing of his brother to pharmaceutical opioid dependency (scoliosis resulted in 9 pounds of titanium in his back, then his dr hooked him on far to much oxy. She's now in jail (she pled guilty) for killing 3 people with Oxy (minute 1:06:30-1:110)) and inspired by his convictions in CBD as a natural alternative painkiller to mainstream medications, Matt Hagan applied his background in agriculture to hemp farming

1 comment:

  1. That was a good interview. I thought the contrast between his 300+ mph funny car and his 10 (or so) mph tractor was pretty wild.

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