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Hemp Bound - Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution (Paperback)
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Hemp Bound - Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution (Paperback)
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List price R363
Loot Price R295
Discovery Miles 2 950
You Save R68 (19%)
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The stat sheet on hemp sounds almost too good to be true: its
fibers are among the planet's strongest, its seed oil the most
nutritious, and its potential as an energy source vast and
untapped. Its one downside? For nearly a century, it's been illegal
to grow industrial cannabis in the United States-even though Betsy
Ross wove the nation's first flag out of hemp fabric, Thomas
Jefferson composed the Declaration of Independence on it, and
colonists could pay their taxes with it. But as the prohibition on
hemp's psychoactive cousin winds down, one of humanity's
longest-utilized plants is about to be reincorporated into the
American economy. Get ready for the newest billion-dollar industry.
In Hemp Bound:Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next
Agricultural Revolution, bestselling 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. Fine's journey will not only leave you wondering
why we ever stopped cultivating this miracle crop, it will fire you
up to sow a field of it for yourself, for the nation's economy, and
for the planet.
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