Authors: Doug Fine
Hemp Bound (18 page)
Resources
The list of players in all of these categories is going to be growing exponentially in coming months and years. These resources are intended just to get the interested hemp farmer or entrepreneur started. It's written at the tail end of the era when the professional hemp world was a small family.
Hemp Political Advocacy and Industry Groups
The following organizations can provide resources useful in working toward hemp cultivation and processing in your region:
Vote Hemp:Â
www.votehemp.com/write_congress.html
Hemp Industries Association (HIA):Â
www.thehia.org
Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance:Â
www.hemptrade.ca
European Industrial Hemp Association:Â
www.eiha.org
Kentucky Hemp Growers Cooperative Association:Â
www.kentuckyhempgca.org
Rocky Mountain Hemp Association:Â
http://rockymountainhempassociation.org
BioFibre Conference, Manitoba:Â
http://biofibe.com
Hemp History Week:Â
www.hemphistoryweek.com
Hemp Seed
Ryan Loflin's Rocky Mountain Hemp:Â
http://rockymountainhempinc.com
Ben Holms's Centennial Seed Distributors:Â
www.centennialseeds.com
The Canadian government's official hemp cultivar list:Â
www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hc-ps /pubs/precurs/list_cultivars-liste2012/index-eng.php
University Course
Oregon State University Hemp Course, Corvallis, Oregon:Â
http://bit.ly/XsChVe
Hemp Seed Oil
Manitoba Harvest:Â
manitobaharvest.com
Hemp Oil Canada (processing for wholesalers):Â
www.hempoilcan.com
Nutiva: nutiva.com
Hemp Building
American Lime Technology:Â
www.americanlimetechnology.com
A hemp building conference:Â
http://internationalhempbuilding.org /events/4th-international-hemp-building-symposium
Greg Flavall and Hemp Technologies' North Carolina house:Â
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZbYsMsMW4Q
The house Tim Callahan designed:Â
http://alembicstudio.com/portfolio /the-nauhaus-prototype
Hemp Textiles
Fabrics, webbing, rope, et cetera:
Retail fabrics, webbing, trim, et cetera:
Retail finished goods:
www.etsy.com/shop/gaiaconceptions
Hemp for Energy Independence
In the end, energy independence is going to come via energized localities.
A bona fide small-farm-sized biomass gasification engine at work in Austria:Â
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P7zFw_xff0
A California biomass plant in action (with wood chips for now):Â
http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7885
Other Hemp Industries
Hemp Plastic Bottle Kickstarter Project:Â
http://hempwaterbottles.tripod.com
Hemp Shield eco-friendly wood sealer:Â
www.hempshield.net
Hemp Decorticator:Â
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8LFErsq6wl
Hemp cereal at the International Space Station:Â
http://holycrap.ca/whats-new /holy-crap-cereal-rockets-to-the-international-space-station
U.S. train running on vegetable oil todayâhemp tomorrow?Â
http://illianaroad .com/railroading/railway-powered-by-waste-vegetable-oil
Lignol, a cellulosic industrial process for which hemp might prove ideal:Â
www.lignol.ca
A Dutch company providing hemp for everything from home construction to animal-care products to BMW door panels (company motto: Nature Wins!):Â
www.hempflax.com/en
The Canadian Composites Innovation Centre's FibreCITY franchising system:Â
http://fibrecity.ca/about.html
Tour Boston's Hemp History:Â
http://hempology.org
A website with links to manifold hemp industry sectors:Â
www.hemp-technologies.com
A Czech company growing hemp and making it into hemp snacks (company motto: Love stemming from respect for the traditions of our ancestors, while also taking care of our children):
www.hempoint.cz
A Beverly Hills company selling hemp rugs:
www.caravanrug.com /hemp-rugs-cat-299
Hemp Consultants
The putative hemp entrepreneur on both the production end and the finished-product side will have met several consultants in these pages. There are others. As every hemp farmer I spoke with urges, do your research before leaping into any business. When it comes to outside help for your endeavor, the same applies.
Anndrea Hermann, The Ridge International Cannabis Consulting:Â
www.facebook.com/pages/The-Ridge-International-Cannabis-Consulting -Anndrea-Hermann-204-377-4417/219657108125220
Agua Das, longtime hemp researcher:Â
[email protected]
;Â
www.hemphasis.net/Notable/notable_files/das.htm
Jason Lauve for Professional Industrial Hemp Consultation:Â
www.lauve.com
Michael Carus, European Industrial Hemp Association:Â
[email protected]
;Â
www.eiha.org
John Hobson, Hemp Technology (UK):Â
[email protected]
;Â
www.limetechnology.co.uk
Erik Hunter, Rocky Mountain Hemp Association:Â
[email protected]
;Â
http://rockymountainhempassociation.org
Recent Hemp Documentaries
Government Grown
:Â
http://governmentgrownhemp.weebly.com
Bringing It Home
:Â
www.bringingithomemovie.com
Hemp researcher David West on feral hemp in Nebraska:Â
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5IQ2PrSWG4
Historical Hemp Documentary
Hemp for Victory
, the 1942 U.S. government pro-hemp film:Â
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1oFcgLfgV0
Hemp Book
Must read for the history of industrial cannabis:
Cannabis
, Mathias Broeckers, The Hash Marihuana Hemp Museum Press, Amsterdam, 2002
About the Author
AMANDA GORSKI
D
oug Fine is a comedic investigative journalist, bestselling author, and solar-powered goat herder. Since emigrating from suburbs to wilderness in the 1990s, he has reported from five continents for the
Washington Post
,
Wired
,
Salon
, the
New York Times
,
Outside
, National Public Radio, and
U.S. News & World Report
. His work from Burma was read into the
Congressional Record
(by none other than pro-hemp senator Mitch McConnell), and he won more than a dozen Alaskan press club awards for his radio reporting from the Last Frontier. Fine is the author of three previous books:
Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution
;
Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living
; and
Not Really an Alaskan Mountain Man
. A website of his print work, radio work, and short films is atÂ
www.dougfine.com
. Twitter:Â
organiccowboy
.
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