Hemp bound
Subtitle: dispatches from the front lines of the next agricultural revolution
By: Doug Fine
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781603585439
Subjects: Hemp; Government policy; Hemp industry
Description: Author Doug Fine embarks on a humorous yet rigorous journey to meet the men and women who are testing, researching, and pioneering hemp's applications for the twenty-first century. From Denver, where Fine hitches a ride in a hemp-powered limo; to Asheville, North Carolina, where carbon-negative hempcrete-insulated houses are sparking a mini housing boom; to Manitoba where he raps his knuckles on the hood of a hemp tractor; and finally to the fields of east Colorado, where practical farmers are looking toward hemp to restore their agricultural economy - Fine learns how eminently possible it is for this misunderstood plant to help us end dependence on fossil fuels, heal farm soils damaged after a century of growing monocultures, and bring even more taxable revenue into the economy than its smokable relative.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-144) and index.
Table of contents: title: After-school snacks before Doritos; title: Hemp gets out ring around the collar; title: Turning a profit even with medieval harvesting techniques; title: Want to make it in the hemp game? Two words: dual cropping; title: Grow your next house (or factory or office or high-rise or school); title: Heck, grow your whole tractor out of hemp; title: Fill 'er up with hemp; title: A new utility paradigm: The distributed, sustainable community energy grid; title: Don't just legalize it, subsidize it; title: Patriots ponder planting; title: Hempucation immersion course; title: Teach your regulators well; title: Support your local heartland hemp homesteaders; title: Epilogue, part one. Watching cannabis displace corn in the first digital age American hemp fields; title: Epilogue, part two. A dust bowl antidote: It's about a cash crop in today's soil.