Homegrown Healthcare Alternative Wellness Apothecary and Learning Center:
located on the corner of Rte. 202 and the Stanley Road in Winthrop. The former Tri-State Fire, Police Equipment Center has been extensively renovated to include office and retail space, a commercial kitchen and it is now open as Homegrown Healthcare Alternative Wellness Apothecary and Learning Center.
“Our vision for the creation of the business was to bring in a complete wellness and learning center specializing in cannabis and other alternative therapies. We want to offer people a way to improve their health naturally including mind, body, and spirit. We are now an apothecary, a learning center and doctor’s offices, all under one roof.” Catherine explains. The facility is designed to be one stop wellness experience and includes four entities. Homegrown Healthcare
Catherine and Glenn’s business offers cannabis and non-cannabis related products. The apothecary provides books, other quality herbal medicines, tinctures, butters, salves, oils, lotions, child resistant storage containers, nutritional supplements and vitamins. Catherine wants to emphasize that the enterprise is not “just a w**d store.” You can find “Made in Maine” herbs, soaps, art and more. Some of the brands you can find there are: Growing Balance, Ethereal Opus Design, cbd dog biscuits from Sticky Bud Farm, cbd lotions and soap, cbd tinctures from Palmetto Harmony, and Honeycomb Farms Extracts. The Lewis’ strongly value the role education and information sharing plays in maintaining health. Opening the first Maine Cannabis Education center maintaining the Mind, Body, Spirit theme, they offer yoga, Reiki and other wellness practices alongside workshops in growing and making various medicinal products, like balms, tinctures, butters and other things as an alternative to the smoking form of cannabis. They also use the classroom space for community groups to use for support group meetings. They actively support cancer survivors, people in addiction recovery and veterans. Catherine also advises people on new business formation. Helping with the LLC, federal and state sales tax and licensing processes.
“There are a lot of people who use medical ma*****na, and don’t want to smoke it, so we have a commercial kitchen here that we use to create capsules, suppositories, tinctures, oils, and a variety of medicinal edibles. Catherine says most of Homegrown Healthcare’s clientele are over 40, are not willing to smoke, and are looking for alternatives like capsules, tinctures and lotions. Some cancer patients seek suppositories to avoid the psychoactive effects of cannabis. If they have to take a high dose, with suppositories they are still be able to function.
“A lot of people come in and see that we have supplies, but they don’t know what to do with them. So we have the classes on a variety of subjects. We want the public to know that no matter what age they are, they can come in and learn about cannabis and its many benefits. We want to empower others to take control of their own health naturally. Growing cannabis and converting the plant to products they can use themselves is therapeutic in and of itself. People should know that they don’t have to have a medical ma*****na card to visit us.” However a card is required to designate their services as caregivers, to purchase any product containing THC per State of Maine Law. For more information about Homegrown Healthcare, visit them at the corner of Stanley Road and Rte. 202 in Winthrop. Office Hours are Monday through Friday 9:00am - 6:00pm and Saturday9:00am-1:00pm Phone: 207-395-5447. You may also visit their website at homegrownhealthcare.net
