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The Camp Suma Story
Expertise Combined with Passion
Camp Suma is a 501(c)3 non-profit registered in the US. Founded to provide high-quality, pure CBD with unquestionable methods and ingredients. Founded by Randy & Sue Campbell, they started experimenting five years ago in an effort to provide answers for why growing hemp in aquaponics was an ideal avenue due to its phytoremediation characteristics. While utilizing their expertise in aquaponics they started looking into the exceptional health benefits of CBD and other known cannabinoids and the birth of Camp Suma (CS) came to pass.
Fast forward to 2023 and Camp Suma received it’s 501c3 status in, after spending a few years with a team researching and developing a superior product they could be proud of. Our products are available to all members of our community, with an added focus of our Give Back Program that reserves half of our production to provide free and reduced CBD for our Military Veterans, First Responders and others serving on our Front Lines.
Our Mission
The Camp Suma Mission
Improving the quality of life for all those suffering from anxiety, stress or pain by providing them with the highest quality, naturally-pure CBD oil while serving our veterans and first responder communities.
Our Values
The Camp Suma Way
We believe everyone should have access to natural health care for stress and pain management without the negative side-effects that often come with conventional treatments
We believe in the value of service in how we all interact in this world, both in what we offer and in how we serve our Community, Veterans and First Responders
We believe in holding ourselves to the highest integrity in all we do, from how we grow our hemp to how we serve our communities
We believe transparency is how we build trust in the quality of our product and the way in which we share it with the world
Utilizing aquaponics as a way to unquestionably grow pure, high-quality CBD
Our Vision
The Camp Suma Vision
We believe that Camp Suma is developing the purest CBD that can be grown, with the help of aquaponics. We want to share this product with anyone looking to safely relieve symptoms of common ailments without the use of and side effects of pharmaceuticals. As Camp Suma grows we want to continue to expand our support of our Veterans and First Responders and are excited as we look into different opportunities to make that happen. Our aim is to help further research and education on the benefits of CBD and other cannabinoids, as well as, providing support and education by expanding the number of farmers growing this diverse plant in aquaponics.
Our Team
The People Behind Camp Suma
Founders
Randy Campbell
Founder
Sue Campbell
Founder
After years of aquaponic production, experimentation and research, Randy Campbell, in partnership with his wife Sue Campbell, founded Camp Suma. His mission with his aquaponics company Perpetual Foods is to make aquaponics simple, economical, more user friendly, and available to more people. Ultimately, this led to the birth of Camp Suma as more and more aquaponics growers reached out for guidance.
Camp Suma began to answer those questions. But, more importantly once they started learning about the profound benefits of cannabinoids and CBD particularly, the mission behind Camp Suma came into focus. As founders, the Campbell’s holds a sincere commitment and passion for creating awareness around the research and health benefits of the cannabis plant and purity for which Camp Suma grows and operates.
Board of Directors
Harold Williams
Board of Directors
Dennis Campbell
Board of Directors
Staff
Michelle Kesler
Operations Coordinator/Bookkeeper
Michelle Kesler is our Operations Coordinator/Bookkeeper. She has 15 years of bookkeeping, customer service, and administrative experience.
Before coming to work for Camp Suma, she worked in the Veterinary field for 18 years, caring for animals and their owners. Her commitment to the health of others has always been a top priority.
Both her and her husband have seen the benefits in their own lives, from the use of good, quality CBD products, to help with their health issues. In todays’ economy, so many of the products out there are full of toxins and other things that are harmful to our bodies. Being part of a company that is striving to produce a clean, high-quality product that will help others is very rewarding.
Kali Kirkendall
Interim Executive Director
Kali Kirkendall is an impact-entrepreneur and has been studying community development since university, where she obtained a BA in International Relations with a focus on Development Studies. She has experience starting and building non-profit enterprises and currently stands as the Executive Director of the Blue Atlas Project where she first met Randy and Sue Campbell. She has studied communities and agricultural practices around the world and believes that how you grow things matters.
Over the past 17 years, she has worked with multiple sustainable or organic farms. From market to wholesale, from farmers’ markets to CSA’s, from farm to table to produce markets. She has run gardens at lodges and for small shareholders.
To continue a life of service, she joined the team at Camp Suma in 2023 to facilitate the launch and to continue her work of serving others.
Kali can frequently be found in the mountains, on a sailboat, or working on-site with the communities she aims to serve.
