HempBuild Magazine: News About the Hemp Building Industry

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Is California’s ADU Movement Hemp's Moment?

A movement to create low-cost mini-housing in the state of California may be the golden opportunity hemp building needs to enter the public consciousness, one builder and startup founder believes.

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As Lumber Prices Surge, Hemp Blocks Get a Closer Look

The cost of U.S. construction timber is skyrocketing, and a national concern is growing for the carbon emitted by the construction industry. As homebuilders look for solutions, the nation’s small-but-growing number of hemp builders wonder if building with hemp will finally break through into the mainstream construction consciousness.

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Field to Shelter: Adobe-Hemp Casita Project

Arnie Valdez, a professor or architecture and owner of southwestern Colorado’s Rezolana Farm, was one of the first licensed hemp growers in the state. Valdez and his team created a field-to-shelter sustainable demonstration casita with homegrown and hand-decorticated hemp and clay to make adobe bricks.

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Pennsylvania's Hemp Builders: Collaboration and Creativity

Before the 80-year U.S. prohibition of marijuana and hemp, the hemp industry in Pennsylvania was one of the oldest in the United States. Hemp was grown in the colony ever since 1683, when William Penn and the General Assembly declared the plant one of the four staples of the colony.

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Build with Hemp: A Call to Action

Hemp building is good for your health, good for the environment, and has potential to be lucrative for entrepreneurs and existing businesses. We have the answer everyone is looking for, we just need to prove it to them.

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