Author: FINE, DOUG
Title: Hemp bound : dispatches from the front lines of the next agricultural revolution
Description: White River Junction. Vermont : Chelsea Green Publishing 2014. First Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed. stiff-card wrappers. literally new. Particularly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xxxi. 152 pages ; 19 cm. Contents; Introduction: After-school snacks before Doritos -- Hemp gets out ring around the collar -- Turning a profit even with medieval harvesting techniques -- Want to make it in the hemp game? Two words: dual cropping -- Grow your next house (or factory or office or high-rise or school) -- Heck. grow your whole tractor out of hemp -- Fill 'er up with hemp -- A new utility paradigm: the distributed. sustainable community energy grid -- Don't just legalize it. subsidize it -- Patriots ponder planting -- Hempucation immersion course -- Teach your regulators well -- Conclusion: Support your local heartland hemp homesteaders -- Epilogue. part one: Watching cannabis displace corn in the first digital age American hemp fields -- Epilogue. part two: A dust bowl antidote : it's about a cash crop in today's soil.Summary; 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. Subjects; Hemp. Hemp industry. Weight in Kg appr.:

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