Hemp-lime innovators Wittenberg, WI-based Sativa Building Systems announced that the company has been awarded $1.9 million in a SBIR Phase II contract from the US Army. The two-year contract will focus on developing a bio-based insulation system using hemp hurd and mycelium, founder Zachery Popp told HempBuild Mag.

Last summer, Zachery Popp found out his Wisconsin warehouse/workshop was burning down after a late-night alert from neighbors.

“My wife and I drove out there as quickly as we could,” Popp told HempBuild Mag.” And, yeah, the building was basically fully collapsed at that point.”

A Wisconsin company sold its first hemp tiny home this spring made with a hempcrete panel system installed in only five hours.