Touch the Soil News #1721 (Feature Photo – Hemp Plants – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Barbtorte) The Press Democrat journalist Guy Kovner brings the story of unusual dimensions. The City of Detroit, with a population of 670,000 is at the center of a metro area of over 4.3 million people. Detroit has over 35,000 vacant…
Positive Future #786 (Feature photo – Hemp Fiber Board – By Elke Wetzig (elya) – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8383485) The Hemp Industries Association brings updates on the various building applications for hemp. The nation’s housing crisis of an extreme shortage of housing units – 2.5 million housing units short – means we can…
Positive Future #785 (Feature photo – Hemp Shorts– By Matti Blume – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70056222 The story of hemp spans centuries as a material for textiles (cloth), particularly for the sails of big ships. Today, hemp clothing is gaining in popularity and in availability. You can see more the story here:
Touch the Soil News #1627 (Feature Photo – Apple – Dried Hemp – By D-Kuru – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 at, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4999070) Inhabitat brings us the story of sustainable shoes that come from the novel new crop called hemp. While hemp is not actually new (its been around for centuries) the recent re-acceptance of…
Positive Future #681 (Feature photo – Zero Carbon Hemp House – Courtesy of Practice Architecture ) Inhabitat journalist Nicole Jewel brings us the story of an amazing hemp house built in the countryside in England. The house was built on a hemp farm that produces bio-plastics made of hemp and flax. You can read the…
Touch the Soil News #1508 (Feature photo – Hemp – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Austria, D-Kuru) Hemp News journalist A.J. Herrington looks into the future of hemp. The article reviews a survey sent to 10,000 hemp growers in 18 states. The survey suggests that supply chain issues must improve, but the long-term outlook is…
Positive Future #562 (Feature photo – Hemp Building Blocks for Walls – CCA SA 3.0 Unported – Olivier Duport) Hemp Business Journal brings us news about the explosive growth of hemp license applications necessary to grow hemp. In 2018 there were 3,456 hemp licenses issued across the U.S. As of August 2019, there have been…
