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Authors: Doug Fine

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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:

www.envirotextile.com

www.hemptraders.com

www.pickhemp.com

Retail fabrics, webbing, trim, et cetera:

www.nearseanaturals.com

Retail finished goods:

http://rawganique.com

www.etsy.com/shop/gaiaconceptions

http://uprising.be/

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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