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Dexter’s Demise Not End Of Family’s Saga
During the 1800s, C.H. Dexter experimented with making paper from hemp, which eventually led to the corporation’s interest in paper making. Nearly 100 years later, the company discovered the technology to make porous teabag paper. Dexter based its success on this development and also produced the first packaged sheet toilet paper.
Eye on the Aisles
Could hemp products—displayed at several exhibits—be a successor to soy? “It has that potential,” said Richard Rose, president of HempNut, Inc., a Santa Rosa, Calif., company that makes cookies, cooking oil, nut butter, vegetarian burgers and lip balm from shelled hemp seeds, which Rose says are rich in protein and essential fatty acids.
Fall into denim jackets
It’s a great equalizer. An affordable accessory that puts us lowly mortals at level with the likes of Madonna and Cher. This year, the denim jacket has outperformed the pashmina shawl as the trendiest cover-up.
Flax-seed oil demand grows
Organic farmer David Musgrave has a winner on his hands with flax- seed oil, but he can’t get enough farmers to grow the seed. From doing everything himself five years ago, he now employs nine full-time people and three or four part-timers in oil production on the family farm at Waihi Bush near Geraldine. About 30,000 litres were produced last year.
Flax-seed oil turns good
Organic farmer David Musgrave has a winner on his hands with flax- seed oil, but he can’t get enough farmers to grow the seed. From doing everything himself five years ago, he now employs nine full-time people and three or four part-timers in oil production on the family farm at Waihi Bush near Geraldine. About 30,000 litres were produced last year.
Further behind on hemp
Motueka hemp advocate Peter Smale says he is disappointed by a decision not to allow trial crops to proceed in time for this planting season. Mr Smale last month applied for a licence to grow industrial hemp under trial conditions. He received a letter from Medsafe, the business unit of the Ministry of Health, stating that trials would not proceed this planting season.
Give Us Back Our Hemp!
A bright blue sky served as backdrop to the stark white concrete of the Federal building here last Friday as a crowd of 80 to 90 people gathered to show their support for the members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe who had been trying to add industrial hemp to the paucity of cash crops grown on the nearby Pine Ridge Reservation. Spanning the age range from infants to elders, Indian and white, the famous to the anonymous, they came together to protest the draconian seizure of the hemp that had been growing in two plots on Pine Ridge.
Green Party Senate Candidate Announces New Forest Platform and Job Plan
Medea Benjamin, Green Party Candidate for US Senate in California, today released her detailed plan for resolving the issues of logging on National Forestlands, supporting Forest Stewardship Council certification for the state’s private lands, and creating permanent, high-wage jobs in the non-tree paper and pulp industries. She speaks today at a noon rally at the steps of the County Board of Supervisors in Nevada City, where she will speak against Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI), the largest recipient of subsidized public lumber. SPI’s logging plans are being critiqued that afternoon in front of Nevada County’s Board of Supervisors.
Green to the bone
Emma Haughton offers some tips on where to look if you don’t want to load your clothes and skin with chemicals.
Hand Ralph a Hat
On Thursday, September 14, HIA Board Member Mari Kane met Ralph Nader at an appearance at San Francisco’s VoteNader campaign office. There, Mari formally announced the HIA’s endorsement of Mr. Nader and presented him with an HIA logo hemp hat, which he then wore proudly.