Meet Allen Pickett

We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Allen Pickett a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Allen, we are so happy that our community is going to have a chance to learn more about you, your story and hopefully even take in some of the lessons you’ve learned along the way. Let’s start with self-care – what do you do for self-care and has it had any impact on your effectiveness?
What an excellent question. My self-care has evolved into my lifestyle and its effectiveness I have channeled into an annual Music & Healing Arts Festival hosted at my farm called Honeybee Hemp Fest. This is the event’s second official year and it’s a culmination and direct reflection of my enjoyments, interests, hobbies, community, and other self-care outlets. I enjoy the outdoors, healing-arts, time and space to relax, live music, being intermingled in community who has other talents to offer, learning about honeybees and farming, plus camping. So why not turn all this into a literal annual gathering?
Self-care to me means I am living my authentic life, which is not always shiny & fun, but rather offers experiences to benefit my self-evolution.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
Thanks for asking. Yes, my company is called Honeybee Hemp Farms based out of Lewisville, North Carolina! I now diversify my time between: farming & beekeeping, creating two lines of hemp & mushroom infused products, and most recently, producing my annual event called Honeybee Hemp Fest which took place on September 6th-7th 2025 and will continue every September going froward. I enjoy immersing myself in nature, especially exploring different ecosystems and interacting with the land. There is something special to me about crafting products and offering services utilizing the land I work with.
I would consider myself to have an entrepreneurial spirit and it feels refreshing to craft my business and dynamic relationships with people in my life based on my authentic values and gifts, bringing my own expression into the “business world.”
I poured my heart into the second annual Honeybee Hemp Fest this year and feel it speaks for itself along the lines I am describing.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
To me the three most critical qualities impactful to my journey are: First, detoxifying my life. Second, honoring my desire to connect inward with myself and also outward with others. Third, my feelings inform my thoughts my thoughts inform my beliefs my beliefs inform my actions and my actions define how I show up to myself and the world. 
My advice is to first notice where one’s physical or energetic health are being negatively impacted by things no longer serving you. Then once one notices these things, take steps which feel most healthy to detox various aspects of life and yourself. Plus recognize it takes time and awareness to find what serves your highest good, it gets easier as it gains momentum but at the end of the day we are all here to experience life and feel lessons we teach ourselves and learn through others. So the destinatoin is literally the journey.

One of our goals is to help like-minded folks with similar goals connect and so before we go we want to ask if you are looking to partner or collab with others – and if so, what would make the ideal collaborator or partner?
Thank you, I am always open and happy to connect with others. Right now I am in the midst of scaling up my business’s infused Honey & Pet Wellness Product Lines so am open to making new connections in that world. Now that this year’s Honeybee Hemp Fest is finished I will begin planning the September 2026 Festival so always happy to hear from musicians, craftsmen, passionate fans, fellow farmers, and healing arts specialists for future partnership opportunities.

I am reachable through:
My Website: www.honeybeehempfarms.com
Social Media: Facebook & Instagram @ honeybeehempfarms

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