Southern Alberta is known for its potatoes, sugar beets and Taber corn, and now hemp is on the rise. This year there are about 30,000 acres of hemp being grown, a huge increase from last year. Farming Smarter, Alberta Agriculture, and hemp industry representatives,...
Sunglasses can now be added to the list of “The Many Uses of Hemp.” Sam Whitten, owner of Hemp®, considers industrial hemp the world’s super crop. Hemp is the strongest plant fibre in the world. It’s also sustainable and eco-friendly. These are...
Tuesday marks the beginning of new legislation in Hawaii. Amongst the new laws to be implemented is the Farm Bill (SB2175), which will allow the University of Hawaii to grow hemp for research purposes. The UH will be conducting a two-year project to study uses of hemp...
Spain is seeing an increase in the cultivation of hemp. In the European Union it is legal to grow hemp with a maximum of 0.2 percent tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Hemp had been grown extensively for thousands of years, to produce nutritional and medicinal products,...
The UK’s Guardian Newspaper has put together a shortlist of 10 of the UK’s best eco homes. From April 21 – 24, they are asking the public to vote for their favourite. So far 4 of the houses have been featured. The fourth is a hemp cottage in County...
Industrial hemp is on the rise, and Alberta is at the forefront, according to a researcher who has advocated hemp crops for more than ten years . This year there will be approximately 100,000 acres of hemp grown in Canada, 20,000 of which are in southern Alberta....
In Jackson, Michigan news today, a documentary that advocates the industrial hemp industry will be shown at a local theatre. Due to federal prohibition of domestic hemp farming, industrial hemp industries import all their hemp oil for their products. Steven Sharpe,...
There are thousands of uses of hemp, and one of them is hemp as a building material. An organic French winery, Chateau Maris, recently built a wine cellar using bricks...
Astika Holdings, Inc., a strategic acquisition company of service, agriculture and industrial companies from the Nantong Region in China, is moving into the industrial hemp sector. They plan to acquire their own facilities in Asia and New Zealand under the new...
Hemp is widely considered to be one of humanity’s first domesticated crops. Scientists believe that humans have cultivated hemp for its nutritional, medicinal, and industrial properties for more than ten thousand years. Check out the following hemp facts for more...
