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Fabric of the future grows wild in Nepal
Fifty-year-old American Mark Rose is trying to show Nepal how money grows on its trees. At Wild Fibers, his studio in Thamel, the tourist hub in Kathmandu, Rose is making fabrics from things growing in the wild.
Focus changes to hemp mill location
With the continuing expansion of commercial hemp trials in Queensland attention is now turning to the location of a hemp mill. Eco-Fibre Industries’ managing director Phil Warner says trials in Kingaroy, Dalby, Murgon, Childers and Mackay will all be expanded during the coming months.
He’s never played a round of golf
Cornfields surrounded the fairways. There was a tall fence between the fairway and the cornfield and in between the two was a small strip of uncultivated soil. I must admit I was shocked to see nine-foot tall wild marijuana [hemp] plants growing near the fence in the uncultivated land.
Hemp Car driver in no rush for new trip
After driving 13,000 miles in three months in a hemp biodiesel-fueled Mercedes, crammed with three other people, Grayson Sigler still doesn’t call himself an activist. At best, he said, he’s a “reluctant spokesperson.
Hemp project may give farms a new crop
The Hemp and Flax Project — run by the University of Wales, Bangor — hopes to encourage farmers to grow and market the crop successfully.
Hemp trials extended
The Hemp industry welcomed a government decision to extend its field trials by one year. The original two-year trial period ended earlier this year and growers were pushing the government to provide approvals and a regulatory framework that would enable industrial hemp to be grown commercially.
Hemperdashery
Finnis runs Vancouver-based Hemptown Clothing Inc., manufacturer and distributor of clothing throughout North America made from a blend of 55-per-cent hemp and 45-per-cent cotton. With 12 full-time employees and a retail outlet at its 6,000-square foot warehouse, the company specializes in promotional T-shirts and caps, as well as retail T-shirts and Oxford shirts.
Hemptown sales smoking hot, and it’s not about pot
In 2001 sales from hemp clothing manufactured by Hemptown was $195,000, but that jumped to $782,000 last year, Finnis said. “This year we expect to do about $2.9 million. Sales are just rocketing upwards,” he said.
High hopes for cannabis crop
The project, which is being caried out on the University’s farm in Abergwyngregyn and is funded by European Objective One money, aims to assist farmers to diversify by growing alternative crops like hemp and flax.
It’s hemp, much stronger than cotton
I look in the mirror. I’m a poor excuse for a new-millennium hippie: tie-dyed shirt, navy blue headband, jeans, sandals, leather fanny pack and a necklace that I made in two minutes by drilling a quarter-inch hole through an old skipping stone. But, hey, when you’re selling hemp clothes at the Saturday Market and your closet is hemp-free, you do what you can.