Hemp is versatile and can be used in many different applications. I am interested in how it outperforms conventional materials while also creating a cleaner, healthier and more ecologically sound future.
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As a processor I need to understand exactly what our builders are needing. Then I can turn around and ask our farmer's to grow exactly what we need for our processing facility. It really is a full circle approach for every level to be successful.
We got hemp textiles to Patagonia and other hemp growers to form a hemp tool bag for Patagonia and recognized that White Earth natives and Navaho Indians and South Dakota natives made this bag.
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As a natural building material, hemp can benefit you in the form of a healthy, breathable home, benefit your local supply chain, farmers and processors, and benefit the Earth as a fast-growing, regenerative, carbon-sequestering, high-performance building material.
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It is a large plus that this new growth industry can sustainably help people and the planet for years to come. Farmers can grow hemp in rotation with corn and soybeans, adding diversity to their farming operations and their soil. We can have bio-friendly products such as packaging, plastics, building materials, clothes, protein, and animal bedding.
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Hemp has a great potential to become a cost-competitive natural building wall system compared to other natural building wall systems out there. It certainly has a better chance of doing that than most of the other styles of natural building.
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At KSU, I teach environmental systems and design studios; for the last four years, my studios have been focused on designing and building affordable, net-zero housing. I am very interested in the potential of natural materials, particularly low-process-energy materials, to replace petroleum and chemically based materials in our buildings. Hemp is a fascinating material because it can also be grown and processed locally.
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Exploiting agricultural commodities to capture and store the carbon in a useable fiber with the most incredibly sequestering commodity on this planet is important to Prairie PROducers
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Advocating for hemp as an alternative rotational crop has been extremely challenging at times, but rewarding.
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Our mission is to manufacture biobased insulation products with high energy performance that have a positive impact on the environment and people's health.
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Hemp offers an incredible opportunity for society to move towards a natural 'back-to-the-land' way of living in harmony with nature. Hemp is initiating a resurgence in agriculture that is inspiring a new generation of farmers and entrepreneurs.
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The most interesting factor about hempcrete is that buildings and structures can become more sustainable and resilient as a result of using innovative hemp based components.
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Hemp Building has the potential to be one of the many ways we can change our impact on the environment. I see this as a way to be involved in the potential changes.
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Now with the war I am realizing that my decision to stick with local resources was a correct one. Now we have a local source of hemp and local 100% natural Ukrainian binder. And we are selling exclusivity licenses to interested parties that would like to formulate and produce our binder in other countries.
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I am working to launch an industrial hemp fiber production hub which includes decortication and a HempWood™ facility.
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I founded Hemp Build Network when I began my effort to build investment residential houses utilizing hemp. Five critical components are necessary for a successful construction project with hemp. Hemp Build Network is a network of professionals and resources that fill all five needs. I connect these resources for clients and for my own projects.
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By Sarah Stephens, Midwest Hemp Technology
In a first-of-its-kind class offered last semester at Kansas State University, Professor Michael Gibson’s graduate seminar students completed final presentations on building with hempcrete.
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