Hemp

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Uses

Hemp can be grown nearly anywhere. It grows very rapidly and has a lot of uses:

  • Food. The seeds are extremely nutritious.
  • body care (soaps)
  • paper
  • Textiles. Hemp fiber can be woven into a material like light cotton (suitable for T-shirts etc.) or a thick canvas material suitable for bags, warm blankets. See the page on spinning and weaving for instructions on what to do with it once harvested.
  • Rope. Hemp fiber is very strong.
  • hempcrete
  • chemicals
  • replacement for plastics - explain
  • fuels (hemp oil / biodiesel/ cellulosic ethanol)
  • animal feed
  • Small percetage of hemp was used in what appears to be a composite - rather than bioplastic - car body (70% fiber, of which fiber 10% was hemp, and 30% binder) - [1]

Links

Industry Standards

  • Largest hemp processing plant in America - [2]