Hemp is making a comeback after decades in the wilderness. What does the Gutenberg Bible have in common with the American Declaration of Independence? Or a tapestry from the Viking age with Christopher Columbus’ ship? And what connects the nomadic Scythians described by Greek historian Herodotus with the anointing ritual of the prophet Moses? The…
INTERVIEW: A writer, director, and director of photography, Jordan Berger is the founder of Sunflower Films, a production company in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. He is currently completing production on ONE PLANT, a documentary about hemp’s potential to address a wide range of pressing global challenges. He also heads up Head River Farms, an organic hemp…
Dan Rawlins and his partner Chloe Meyer set themselves an ambitious target when they decided to build an off-grid house made from hempcrete and rendered with a horse manure mix, all without ever having built a house before. And while that might sound like a recipe for disaster, the couple had experience weathering difficulty —…
Discover seven products that represent a new wave of bio-derived offerings for interior design and architecture. WHAT IF THE MATERIALS of the building industry weren’t sourced from mining and extraction, but rather from agriculture and animal husbandry? This dream—that we could someday grow our building products—is represented the offerings shown here. Some bring ancient materials…
Initially, the nutritional value of the three main by-products of Cannabis sativa (hempseed cake, second-rate quality hemp seed and hemp hay), cultivated under Greek conditions and collected from four plantations in the Macedonian region was estimated. A second part of the study was the investigation of the effects of diet inclusion with hempseed cake (HSC)…