Grassroots Development built a hempcrete house and an identical conventional house for research. A year later, they've discovered some surprising results. The hempcrete house (right) and ...

MORTON, Minn. — After a decade of research and consulting some of the best hempcrete industry experts in the world, the Lower Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota is providing jobs and addressing the ...

MORTON, MINN. – Eight-foot-tall stalks of hemp swayed in a field on the prairie here, ready for harvest. But these plants won’t get anyone high. Instead, they’ll be turned into hempcrete, a building ...

MORTON — There has been a buzz growing around hemp the last several years as loosening regulations in the United States have started to make it easier to grow, process and use the plant in a variety ...

Kevin Dupuis from Fond du Lac walks out to look at the hemp in Joey Goodthunder’s field in Morton, Minn., on Sept. 5. When it comes to staying informed in Minnesota, our newsletters overdeliver.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. For now, it’s only a gaping hole in the ground, 100-by-100 feet, surrounded by farm ...

The hempcrete duplex, constructed with a building material made of hemp, lime and water and built on the Lower Sioux Indian Community, will be used as emergency shelter for tribal members in need.

As program coordinator for 8 th Fire Solar, an emerging Osage, Minnesota-based provider and installer of solar thermal panels, Gwe Gasco is doing his part to take care of the environment and lay the ...

For now, it's only a gaping hole in the ground, 100-by-100 feet, surrounded by farm machinery and bales of hemp on a sandy patch of earth on the Lower Sioux Indian Reservation in southwestern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 6—MORTON — The Lower Sioux Indian Community is building not only homes, but a future full of possibilities, out of hemp, or ...