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.

Feeling inspiration being planted is an invigorating feedback loop. I am very fortunate to have had a role in the dawning awareness of the solid reality of a healthy, beautiful, affordable house.

Pure Shenandoah Hemp co-founder Jake Johnson talks to Triple P Fund’s Ray Kaderli about the company’s new strategy to move from cannabinoids to fiber.

A publicly traded Canadian hemp company plans to build communities of 50 -100 modestly priced hemp homes in northwestern Colorado per year, with two demonstration homes being built this year, the company spokesman said.

Builders and designers met on one of the earliest licensed industrial hemp farms in southwest Colorado in late April to learn about adobe hemp construction and create a hemp-based prototype for a small emergency shelter.

Pennsylvania-based hemp building pioneers CoExist Build have released a build-it-yourself 140 sq. foot hemp cabin that can be used as a home office.

Hemp processing in the United States is a chicken-and-egg problem. But Amazon could be the 500-foot chicken that solves it.

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.

As Mexico waits at the threshold of a new era of cannabis decriminalization for adult use, medical marijuana and hemp, some hemp pioneers already have a head start.

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.

The pyramids are still standing, we can make toxin free bricks with hemp that will stand generations, 500 mile per hour winds and 9.2 earthquakes. This means homes can be passed down. Indigenous people will no longer be robbed of the opportunity of inheritance.

The good news is in 2021, working in hemp building in the United States is more a possibility than at any point in the past.

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The Highland Hemp House is a “hempcrete” home in Bellingham, Washington. The project started in 2014 with researching healthy insulation for a small renovation.

An Allentown, Pa. company is the new North American distributor for a European spray-applied hempcrete system that can make hemp insulation quicker and cheaper to install, the company said.

Three pioneering companies in the emerging U.S. hemp-building industry will collaborate this spring on two projects that will use multiple hemp building techniques.

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.

We see the potential to create a new agriculturally based system for producing healthier affordable housing, creating new opportunities in agriculture for farmers, and providing training opportunities for workers.