Join us for an open house and roundtable event to explore the economic and ecological opportunities in farming, processing, advanced manufacturing and designing with hemp as a building material.
June 17th 2023, 2pm at Wally Farms, Taghkanic NY
Location: Wally Farms Hemp Homes 501 Pumpkin Hollow Road Hillsdale, NY 12529
Cost: FREE
Locally Grown Buildings
Closing the Loop from Farm to Site with Hemp
Hemp offers enormous potential as a building material. It sequesters high amounts of carbon when growing, and requires limited water, fertilizer and pesticides. When used as a building material together with lime and water, it creates non-toxic, breathable, non-flammable walls.
The event will begin with an Open House of two recently completed homes at Wally Farms, where hemplime was used as its primary wall material, followed by a Roundtable to discuss the opportunities and bottlenecks to locally grown, manufactured and installed hemp lime construction.
The conversation is intended to be inclusive of the audience and will be introduced and moderated by:
Kaja Kühl, - Designer of the Hemp Homes at Wally Farms and Associate Professor of Architecture at City College New York
Tom Rossmassler - Chief Embodied Officer at Hempstone, LLC, Hemp contractor of the Hemp Homes at Wally Farms
Jonsara Ruth - Design Director and Co-Founder, Healthy Materials Lab at Parsons School of Design
Travis Samuels - Chief Operating Officer, Zion Growers
If you come:
Please consider car-pooling. It helps reduce your carbon footprint and helps us manage space for parking.
Feel free to go for a walk and explore the grounds. just stay on roads or trails and don't leave anything behind.
More background on the project can be found in this project diary
