Hello, I'm Elli.
Many of you know me from customer support and from my greeting cards to you.
The seewinkler HANFEREI is my family's organic farm.
My son Adrian takes care of the office, our customer service, shipping and accounting.
My daughter Carla graduated from the Tullnerbach Horse Management School in 2024 and has been caring for, training and looking after our horses and dogs ever since, and works diligently in our factory.
And I, I am responsible for ensuring that our hemp grows and thrives in the fields and that we deliver the highest quality products to you and your loved ones as fresh and gently as possible. Each of our products passes through my hands and I know which of our fields each hemp flower comes from.
Lisa has also been part of our hemp family almost since the beginning. She takes care of communicating the numerous product benefits and tells the whole world what great experiences our customers, especially female customers, have with the hemp products. Without her, it wouldn't be half as nice.
And of course we have a few angels: Reni, who has been responsible for production and the loving packaging since day one, and Rekka, her best friend, our reliable help when things get bigger. Leni, who always supports us when there is a lot going on, and Niki, Adrian's girlfriend, who always lends a hand when there is a need.
And that's how it all started...
We have specialized in hemp cultivation in agriculture for more than 10 years, the first few years exclusively as a raw material supplier for CBD production in the human sector. We were the first in Austria to grow and harvest industrial hemp as a flower and leaf supplier and not just for seed production. Together with my best friend Andrea, I was the first in Europe to bring CBD drops for human use (brand Medihemp) onto the market.
As a farmer, animals have always accompanied me; we have 2 dogs and a small Quarter Horse breeding farm with 3 broodmares.
So what was more obvious than trying out our hemp on our own four-legged friends, since we have known for years how effective cannabinoids are in humans? Together with my friend Sumalo, also a farmer, hemp and reed specialist and a Mac Gyver who built all of our harvesting and processing machines himself, and Theresa, his daughter, who was a wonderful friend, feed consultant and dog and horse owner, we developed our first hemp products and tested them on our own four-legged friends.
We noticed small and large improvements in our pets almost immediately and a visible improvement in almost all areas over the course of the first year. Both healthy animals and those with minor ailments and serious problems benefit greatly from the wonderful properties of our hemp!
It was Theresa who tirelessly gave our products to friends, acquaintances and relatives to test and came back with enthusiastic feedback. So we started the Seewinkler Hanferei, intended as a farm shop and small online shop.
We got to know and love Lisa, our lively, fast and super creative marketing and creative thinker with a great deal of knowledge about animal feeding. Lisa was one of our first happy customers and so enthusiastic about the effect on her horse, her dog and herself that she wrote to us and wanted to join us! Love at first click, so to speak.
Thank you for being with us, you are part of the family!
Unfortunately, just as our natural manufacturing business was getting up and running, a terrible stroke of fate struck and Thesi was taken from us completely unexpectedly at the age of 32. We miss her. She would have been proud of us. She would have loved to see how well her baby was developing.
The time after that was hard, but we never thought about giving up. In Thesi's spirit and with her in mind, we tackled things together, professionalized our production, packaging and labels and our online presence, and here we are now with heart and passion - and of course lots of nature.
A lot has changed in the diversity of our products in recent years. Together with veterinarians, feed consultants and naturopaths, we have developed and continue to develop new recipes and products.
What suits hemp and strengthens it is tested many times in order to then mature into a new product put together with brain and heart.
And THAT is US
A small, family-run factory where we still talk to the plants, lovingly handcraft and package our products and live and love the appreciative, fair treatment of our environment, our animals and of course our customers. You won't find our products from any large supplier, we consciously want to stay small and be there for our customers personally.