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Growing hemp, the wonder plant
A champion for the cause of hemp growing has put the feelers out to Canterbury farmers for 20,000ha of land to cultivate the wonder plant.
Growing hemp, the wonder plant
A champion for the cause of hemp growing has put the feelers out to Canterbury farmers for 20,000ha of land to cultivate the wonder plant.
Hemp: It’s not for smoking
You can wear hemp clothes. Sit on hemp furniture. Even use processed hemp fuel to [power your automobile]. But don’t try to smoke it. “It would give you a headache and that’s about it,” said David Bronner, a board member of both the California-based trade group Hemp Industries Association (HIA) and the political action committee Vote Hemp.
High on hemp
Drive a Mercedes, Chrysler or General Motors product? If so, it’s possible you have Ontario cannabis on board. But don’t worry — no one’s accusing you of having drugs in your glove box or trunk. Instead, your hemp probably takes the form of a door panel, or some similar interior component.
Hot, hot hemp
What began in 1995 as a one-man business out of Finnis’s basement suite-while he studied to become a music teacher-has grown into the largest producer of hemp T-shirts in North America. If all goes well, Hemptown will be listed on the stock market by the end of the year.
Industrial crops: Let’s revisit hemp
Tension continues to mount over genetically modified crops. The biotechnology industry is banking on its ability to utilize plants for an assortment of industrial and pharmaceutical products. However, the food industry and consumer groups have serious reservations about the industry’s plans to genetically modify common food crops, such as corn, to manufacture pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals.
Industrial hemp project shut down
The state’s only industrial hemp research project shut down yesterday, with its operator blaming “bureaucratic runaround” from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration for its demise.
Mother Earth’s cozy conference
The social consciousness ran thick at the Bioneers environmental conference Sunday in Marin County. So thick that when an 8-year-old boy realized that the yummy, solar-baked chocolate chip cookie he was eating was made with Nestle’s pre-made dough, he spit it out.
NHL great Bernie Nicholls joins the Hempola team
“These products are too good to be true; the nutrition and everything…they speak for themselves.” These are comments made by recently retired National Hockey League star, Bernie Nicholls.
Nipawin’s biomass project entering final phase
Nipawin’s location was chosen for this project due to its proximity to the necessary feedstocks (raw materials) required. The project will primarily be using agricultural and forestry waste products in a process called gasification in order to convert waste into higher value products, such as ethanol, just one potential product that will be produced in this project.