About Us

BrightMa Farms is a vertically integrated minority business enterprise and veteran-managed Hemp group with corporate offices in Charleston SC and growth campuses located in Orangeburg and Cordesville, SC. They have been setting a global footprint that will champion an SC circular economy and pave the way nationally with economic development designed to benefit businesses, society, and the environment – signified by the triple bottom line (People-Planet-Profit). This transformative model is based on the principles of integrity, transparency, compliance, and social and environmental sustainability.

Our Story

Our CEO and Founder brings an amazing family legacy that is leant to our brand legacy. In 1865 a 25-year-old slave field hand named Katie later known as BrightMa to her descendants was freed from the Balls “Buck Hall- Coming Tea Plantations” after which she took the surname Heyward and with her husband Zachariah built their own home and settled their family on a 10 acre tract of land in Cordesville SC not far from where she was enslaved. BrightMa is my great great grandmother and that heirs property has been in my family ever since she first put her hands in the soil!

Upon launching the name BrightMa was adopted to honor the family legacy and to convey the organization’s mission and vision. “For no one knows this land better than those who have farmed it for generations.”

BrightMa Farms, Inc, is a certified Minority Business Enterprise, veteran managed hemp group with corporate offices in Charleston, SC, and SC industrial hemp campuses in Berkeley and Orangeburg counties. Founded in 2018 with a transformative model based on the principles of integrity, transparency, compliance and social & environmental sustainability.

BrightMa Farms believes in a triple bottom line People-Planet-Profit and its ability to bring us back to balance through agriculture, tech innovation, diversity inclusion, and educational entrepreneurship.

Together with our strategic partnerships we have position a global footprint that is championing a circular ecosystem with economic impact and development. BrightMa Industrial Hemp pipeline is in circularity of one plant bred for vertical market integration: Biofuel, Bioplastic, Green Energy Technology, Paper, Textile, Industrial and Consumer Packaging, Construction, Waste to Value Shoreline Restoration (Green Cement) and so much more...

Our Business Model

BrightMa Farm’s business model is to build sustainable partnerships for impact that are both innovative and inclusive. We look to ignite collective action toward circularity, to better serve societal needs and the health of our planet by bringing a forward-thinking community of innovators, government and state agencies, historically marginalized farmers, HBCU’s Historically Black Colleges/Universities, R1 Universities and industry together. In doing so, we aim to create transformative solutions with hemp, as the aggregator of change, that address tomorrow’s emerging and complex challenges while developing the next generation of Ag Tech leaders.

Putting People – And Planet – Before Profit

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“We like to say it’s a plant of unlimited opportunities.” – Harold Singletary, founder and CEO, BrightMa Farms

The Business's Early Days

Singletary, who is from Charleston, grew up working on a farm owned by his grandparents, Katie and Ned Roper, on James Island, S.C.

“It’s a hard life,” he says. “To do large-scale farming—I never wanted to do that at all. I’m an accountant by trade. I wanted to understand business and finance. That allowed me to structure, raise capital, use a network and also create a different solution to farm, which was indoor farming.”

A desire to help create opportunities for African American farmers, plus a few other experiences, inspired Singletary to enter the hemp marketplace.

For one, his mother, Anna Delores, suffered from bone cancer. She received two bone marrow transplants but ultimately lost her battle with the disease in 2016. When she was still alive, Singletary provided her with cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which he says allowed her to retain a better quality of life than prescription opioids did.

Hemp and cannabis also helped Singletary deal with anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from his U.S. Army infantry enlistment. He was deployed to Haiti for six months in 1995 as part of Operation Uphold Democracy, for which he received an Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal. He entered conflict zones and other dangerous situations where he fired weapons and witnessed casualties. “Even any soldier being put into any warfare or heavy, stressful situations—you will acquire anxiety or PTSD,” he says. “Then, trying to come back out of those types of situations … into a normal society—and adapt to what may not be intense anymore—how do you navigate that?”

For one, his mother, Anna Delores, suffered from bone cancer. She received two bone marrow transplants but ultimately lost her battle with the disease in 2016. When she was still alive, Singletary provided her with cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which he says allowed her to retain a better quality of life than prescription opioids did.

Hemp and cannabis also helped Singletary deal with anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from his U.S. Army infantry enlistment. He was deployed to Haiti for six months in 1995 as part of Operation Uphold Democracy, for which he received an Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal. He entered conflict zones and other dangerous situations where he fired weapons and witnessed casualties. “Even any soldier being put into any warfare or heavy, stressful situations—you will acquire anxiety or PTSD,” he says. “Then, trying to come back out of those types of situations … into a normal society—and adapt to what may not be intense anymore—how do you navigate that?”

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