HEMPISH

Imagine a crop more versatile then the soy bean, the cotton plant and the Douglas Fir tree put together, one whose products are interchangeable with those from Timber or petroleum one that grows like Jack’s beanstalk with minimal tending.

THERE IS SUCH A CROP “HEMP”

No member of the plant kingdom has been more misunderstood and maligned than hemp, a plant that has served millions of people for thousands of years, and is perhaps mans most useful.

Hemp forms the basis of many products- it has about 30, 000 known applications from linen to paper to rope to building materials, bodycare and food.

One of Hemps greatest attributes is its hardiness. It will grow literally anywhere with minimal supervision and without the use of pesticides or herbicides, leaving the fields virtually weed free for the next crop.

Hemp is also a phytoremedial plant and is used to repair contaminated soils by bonding heavy metals to the fibre and captures large amounts of Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere.

But when we think of “Hemp” most people think of cloth, ropes, paper and the like. Although hemp fibre has been used for millennia for those things, what most people don’t know is that hempseed has also been used just as long for food.

Shelled hempseed is perhaps the most nutritious plant food on earth and even that might be an understatement? It has almost as much protein as soybean, but the protein is more digestible and of higher quality. The main reason for its digestibility is its high ratio(65% of total protein) of Edistin. Edistin is a sturdy protein that is pure and highly stable. Hemp is so complete and nutritious that in studies done in the early 1900s demonstrated that it could serve as the sole source of protein in the diet of animals. Hemp also contains the highest profile of Minerals, Vitamins and Trace elements of any edible seed.