Chapel Hill
As mentioned, I spent the end of last week in tobacco country. Thursday morning I met our organic tobacco broker at a little diner in Chapel Hill, NC. He asked me to meet him at 7AM, when the diner...
View ArticleThe Long Tobacco Road
Admittedly, I’ve been pretty distracted the past day or so with the piece in The Atlantic. This journey has been (and remains) tremendously frustrating, and to have a piece “vent” for us in the...
View ArticleOrganically speaking
Since Jacob Grier wrote of our journey in The Atlantic, we’ve received many inquiries about the filtered little cigars we’re bringing to market. To maintain absolute transparency, I wanted to clarify...
View ArticleWhere the Rubber Meets the Road
So, today the site goes live. I’m pretty proud of what we’ve created. The tobacco remains all natural and additive free. The wrapper is a tobacco-blended paper (to avoid the “Fire Safe Paper”...
View ArticleThank you so much for an excellent first day!
We’re having a lot of fun here, and it’s so encouraging to see the strong market response to our hard work. Please keep spreading the love, and telling your friends about our product, and we’ll keep...
View ArticleWeek One Orders
Dear dudes & dolls (or duderinos and duderinas, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing) : First & foremost, thank you SO much for your show of support through your orders this first week of...
View ArticleWe’re 6 months old today!!
Dear independent & all natural tobacco family, Today, October 23rd we celebrate six months of craft Hestia Tobacco (free of additives AND Big Tobacco)! Thanks to you, we are still able to pursue...
View ArticleNew Idea: Free Smokes!
We want to make you an offer you can’t refuse! We’ve started off 2014 with a bang, and keep growing because you folks keep loving our smokes and telling your friends about them. Every single day we’re...
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Hestia Tobacco in Silicon Valley Business Journal!
We were featured in this week’s edition of SVBJ’s “Vice” edition. How apropos. For full features, go here.
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