How Two Sisters Are Reviving Damaged Farmland With Hemp

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Before 1937, hemp had been used for millennia as a means of fiber, paper, and fuel - and yet it became illegal to cultivate in the United States for decades. Today, two sisters in New York's Hudson Valley are re-introducing hemp on their farm as a way to heal their soil, while blazing a trail in regenerative agriculture.
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[@leoscheibelhut940]

As an older farmer, I am so happy to see brave strong young women come into agriculture, especially since they are dedicated to healing the soil and thus the earth.

[@COEXIST-ny4db]

I really loved that also! Pretty cool. I sometimes fear that farming will be lost as it's very hard work for little pay. I'm so proud of the younger generation being willing to dedicate their lives for basically....US! And thank you for all you've done also!!

[@edmundolinares9442]

​@@COEXIST-ny4db à

[@jessicap4998]

My company has been working with hemp for more than 20 years. We've bred strains with different fibers, so it can be processed and used for things like clothing. Hemp really has a lot of uses.

[@B01]

Ever work with Kenaf?

[@brentongutierrez4021]

Do you have hemp seed available for purchase?

[@jefferystube]

I don't suppose you could give a hint to the name of your company?

[@jessicap4998]

@@brentongutierrez4021 lol nope. We're R&D, not retail.

[@jessicap4998]

@@jefferystube Its in Alberta, Canada.

[@Joey-vw1id]

This was absolutely a great video. It actually brought me to tears because I don't understand why this world hasn't figured out by now that this hemp plant can actually save our planet from the from the suffering we ourselves caused. We need to incorporate this plant into crop rotations to put the carbon back into the earth to start to rebuild our planet. 💚🌿💯

[@MeetJarred]

Love Hempcrete! I've been getting interested in Hemp nano carbon cathodes myself. There will be some true innovations in the near future IMO.

[@dudleybarker2273]

say what now... what are those

[@Vospader21]

A little glimmer of hope in a long dark abyss of what awaits us. Thanks girls.

[@rensinavandenheuvel8882]

Beautiful movie, amazing women. So inspiring. You make my heart sing with your awareness and sharing this with the world. Love from Rensina in Australia

[@ElementalWildfire]

Nice, I'd love to learn more about hemp as a building material

[@clairedgaia3626]

National Hemp Builders Association.

[@MeetJarred]

Great Episode! Life x Hemp x Love - Hate = Happiness! Have a blessed week all!!

[@granthawkins9142]

We should be planting hemp around airports etc.

[@b_uppy]

Along highways, in ditches to hold soil and absorb pollution. Lot of heavy metals with exhaust and tires.

[@granthawkins9142]

@@b_uppy that's a great idea!

[@CoryKlim]

You have to collect the hemp and then do something with it or it will just be re-released into the soil when the plant dies and breaks down. In certain situations its still a useful tool though...

[@Ifyouarehurtnointentwasapplied]

That's a excellent idea

[@leonardayungo3911]

😂😂

[@m4kn4zty52]

Interesting and very much educational for all more need to have the mindset.. roots could be regenerative also in some way

[@m4kn4zty52]

Earthships regenerative growing fersure, or so gunna act like lackadaisical when Mr. Hanky hits the fan

[@darcoln3208]

There's no harm in good farmin'. Hemp makes our Earth happy :)

[@josephdappa1340]

Two Sisters: may God bless you for what you are doing for the world. You restorative agriculture is going to be a legacy for the future. I have a vision and dream for Africa. Please connect me with farm ladies who love Black men and interested in settling in Africa to work on the farm! Thanks for your cooperation. Joseph

[@willm5814]

Hemp is North Anerica’s bamboo - so versatile, so much potential!

[@adri1leusha]

Lotus made a whole car (body) out of hemp fibre (and epoxy I asume) It can be used like carbon fiber / fiberglass It comes at the price of fiberglass, with stiffness and ease of use similar to carbon. Many other car makers use it in places like door/interior, but won't really advertise about it because of all the stigma :/

[@diannenaworensky6698]

Very good video. I really enjoyed it !!!!!

[@Mimicry161]

This is amazing!

[@geckowizard9058]

SO BEAUTIFUL!

[@Feverything2030]

Soon coming to Minnesota.

[@TRuth.T]

I think you mean marijuana...

[@NonexistentHomestead]

Since hemp is removing the heavy metals from the earth, does that mean that the hemp would contain those metals? If so, are there checks and standards in place to limit whether it can be used as food or medicine? Hemp grown on soil with low levels going to food and medicine and hemp with high levels going to textiles or fuel. You also missed the reason I use hemp which is as bedding in my chicken coops and then as compost after soiled. Now, I am curious to find out if the bedding I buy is contaminated.

[@kelliott7864]

Yep, most likely contaminated.

[@lesliebeachwood3595]

I agree, this video was light on specifics, that is, if hemp is so good at pulling lead, cadmium, etc. from contaminated soil, where do those contaminants end up? In the roots? In the leaves? In your green drink?

[@magsterz123]

I had the same question!

[@juha-mattikoponen1625]

It was really interesting to find out that hemp can pull heavy metals/toxins out of the soil. But has anyone studied where the plant stores them? Is the plant or parts of it still usable somehow if used in such soil cleaning fashion?

[@timfriday9106]

I love these 2 for all the reasons and things.

[@АндрейВасиленко-ф2р]

Женщины прекрасны как само растения!!!!! Здоровья и счастья и любви!!!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ курите братья!!!!!!! Ветеран бд Андрей

[@travelerlane5542]

Grow hemp everywhere..George Washington

[@chonglers1513]

I too believe that it will be women who will lead the movement of mending and giving back to the earth

[@jrsf222]

80 years ago we rotated our crops in Idaho. We did not replant same product at all. That doesn’t mean this hemp idea isn’t a blessing. I have hemp swings and baskets.

[@Sanguen666]

strong and brave.

[@dontcomment6012]

That's great 👍

[@LordandGodofYouTube]

The stigma needs to end over this plant, to not have this as a component of agriculture and manufacturing doesn't make sense, it's really as simple as that.

[@davekreation2141]

You are doing a great thing. What happens when corporate farms take over your idea. They will find a way to pervert the goodness of your idea. Just a thought.

[@robertgreen9150]

He carried a legal Card For right notification and that he worked for Wyandotte Chemical Company via the federal government. I saw his ID but didn't realize how cool yhat would be now! I did put it with my book report as a show-n-tell!

[@greyareaRK1]

How far from the norm are these farmers? How can we spread their mindset? Are there industries to feed the hemp into? Can we have them sustainably cloned? ;-)

[@USAHempRevival]

Hemp Rocks!!! Come by if you want a hemp song or 2 xoxoxoxox

[@armageddonready4071]

Where did they get funding? I would love to do a few environmental productive projects, but everyone needs to get paid and everything cost money.

[@stevencampbell365]

Go Strong 💪 🙏 ladies😊

[@rockskipper5353]

No one plant is going to save the world . We need to grow all plants(diversity)

[@atomsmovie]

💧💧💧

[@libertyblueskyes2564]

YES YES YES!!!

[@Nembula]

You give me hope. We so need to repair the damage we have done to the soil we depend on for our food. A retired organic farmer.

[@kw9158]

This was beautifully shot. It felt like a short cinematic film. Love to see these types of videos, and hope to see more from PBS!

[@mdempsey7128]

Here in Canada I grow marijuana right alongside my tomatoes and carrots as a companion. I’m sure hemp can be incorporated in the same way. I often refer to a book called Carrots Love Tomatoes by Louise Riotte. She’s got another book called Roses Love Garlic.

[@marim0y]

This video felt as though no time had passed and also an eternity. Beautifully filmed and presented.

[@Le_Brick420]

I love that you girls are doing regenerative ag. and yes it is the future. I hope you girls do a lot of testing the plants when they are harvested to make sure it is safe for human use just in case. People like you are important to this world. Safety should not be left out like testing. Awesome work girls and thank you.

[@stephenwhitworth7701]

Thanks for taking the time to share your insights and views. I completed a hempcrete home building course a year or two back and I am in awe of the amazing physical characteristics of hemp. It breathes, it has amazingly high levels of insulation, it minimises allergies, almost eliminates mould from building interiors, has an amazing fire retardant characteristic - all things we are going to need more and more in the coming years. And yes, as you have so clearly demonstrated, it is also friendly to our soil and way of life. I have been inspired by what you are doing so please keep educating the world. Thanks.

[@nancykraus5127]

Hemp of all kinds grew wild all over the counjtry. When it was made illegal they outlawed all hemp. We used to make rope out of it here in the USA until it was all made illegal. It is as adaptable as bamboo. It can grow guickly and be made into so many things including wood, clothing, etc. These are two of the must sustainable crops we could ever have and hemp can change the ground for the better.

[@Ancusohm]

I do hope we do more with hemp. It's so useful.

[@b_uppy]

So is getting away from conventional ag. There two are still largely conventional in their approach. Polycropping is much better especially with alleycropping using mob grazing with diverse livestock. They could use more small, frequent rainwater catchments made from onsite materials. Integrating perennial and woody into polycropped areas increases fertility; resistence to pests, disease, weeds; diverse plants improves soil biome as well as increase fertility, carbon sequestration, topsoil, water retention and absorption, etc. This is about much more than hemp. Hemp is good but limited.

[@timfriday9106]

it was literally the most versatile cash crop in the entire world for centuries until it was demonized and illegalized. We used to make clothes ropes(for sailing) paper products...like...it's better than cotton... and we replaced it with cotton and petroleum materials for clothes which have significantly exacerbated the amount of water we fuck up and the amount of C02 we're pumping into the atmosphere...Like, hemp could go a LONG way to reverse climate change.. And there are like 2 laws that could be changed/reversed/updated to make it possible.

[@luisostasuc8135]

I think they might be forgiven for not going at it a mile a minute. Gotta regenerate soil to allow new plants to thrive

[@elisemiller13]

@@b_uppy Do you farm with all you mention here? Just curious. Well being

[@nadeeshferera3990]

im from sri lanka .im like know to the hemp

[@krispykruzer]

Good to see hemp is being acknowledged as the wonder plant it has always been. Let’s fix this world !!

[@1969kodiakbear]

Marijuana and hemp. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)

[@tracelee7332]

Godbless you

[@andrehunter8137]

Where can we watch the other episodes? I can't seem to find it on KZbin.

[@andrehunter8137]

Thank you

[@thatguychris5654]

I'm sure pot breeders within 50 miles appreciate all that hemp pollen being blown around lol

[@richardbowers4803]

One must be careful. Hemp cleaning up soils is fine. BUT the plants uptake of heavy metal or agrochemical residues must remain within the plant. This must be disposed of rather than consumption. Plant fibre or plastics being the best way

[@Angel_Bob_]

Fantastic work! It really warms my heart when others manage to explain cannabis and all the ways how it's such a wonderful plant in such thoughtful wording. Very relatable how working with it is somehow its own purpose and almost infinitely rewarding in how it heals the planet, body and mind 😌

[@RogerJayYang]

I also enjoyed the interviews from these sisters. I didn't expect the poetry of "the narrative must progress" (8:58).

[@mojo.adventures]

The biggest question I have is why this plant was framed so negatively for so long (especially hemp) and who was behind this narrative. Led to believe there were no therapeutic and no industrial uses for so long. You may get the answers to many other problems plaguing this world if you find out the answer to those questions...

[@rosasalazar861]

What a miraculous plant. I was especially impressed on how it rejuvenates the soil taking out toxins and giving nutrients back. I hope find purpose with the root, I have no doubt they will

[@brad2548]

Likewise

[@nadeeshferera3990]

Hello nice life

[@nolispex]

At 2:23 your video is still making the claim of the domestic demand for Hemp Fiber during WW2 happening in 1914, which was the time of WW1. The "Hemp For Victory" thing definitely happened during WW2. This video has the timeline wrong for that one item

[@pbsterra]

Hello. Thank you for your comment. You are correct, we accidentally placed WW2 in the wrong spot on the timeline. Please excuse the error, and thank you again for bringing it to our attention. We are going to work to update the graphic.

[@diannenaworensky6698]

​@@pbsterra HI Girls, this was the only comment that I saw you respond to. I think you are doing a great job. I'm 61 1/2 and I'm doing research on this plant. I have had 2 strokes (one in 2021 and one in 2022). People tell me that I should be using this plant for medicine. That it will help with my anxiety. You see I'm petrified that I will have another stroke. Someone mentioned to me to use both CBD and THC together that it could help with my symptoms. My whole right side feel like it is asleep and the buzzing of that is so bad that at times it makes me feel nauseated. I don't think that I will live long enough to see this plant viewed as medicine. We sill have too many "mossy backs" sitting in office and would never vote for that. I really enjoyed your video !!!!! GOOD LUCK, Dianne Naworensky

[@Ifyouarehurtnointentwasapplied]

It grows fast and is about 25 years more efficient than wood as a sustainable building material

[@mikehancho1613]

This is fantastic if everyone could come together and focus more on natural food/farming we can build a healthy world as it should be.

[@b_uppy]

Polycropping of primarily woody and perennial, biome compatible food crops, managed with mob grazing, is the gold standard of regenerative ag. Caveat: Cannabis is a poor choice for the Southwest and Midwest as a monocrop (that's true of any crop, but especially annuals) but in a minor roll of a soil-holding, soil-fixing polyculture it is useful. Be mindful it is a 'heavy drinker,' that's why its role in drier areas is limited. In areas with more reliable rain, like east of the Mississippi, cannabis could be used more heavily in a polycropped situations. It is always important to plant in polycrops. Soil microbes do their best work of adding fertility, fighting disease and sequestering carbon when the plant life is a diverse mix of perennials, trees, shrubs and vines appropriate to the biome. This diverse mix could be an alternating mix of woody plants growing in alternating, parallel rows with herbacious plant mixes. This is kmown as alley cropping. It is important to have living plants and avoid plowing/tilling/bare earth fallow, as well as chemical inputs like fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides. Accompany these plant polycultures with mob grazing livestock and you have maximized the food producing, land restoring, general health boosting potental in a plot of land. Polycultures help make their own fertilizer. Have much fewer pest problems, disease and weed problems. Water is used more efficiently as the soil is better protected. It adds flood, drought, heat wave resiliency. It produces more calories and nutrition per acre than monocropped foods could ever hope to. Add rainwater harvesting catchments like keylining or frequent, small, check dams, bunds, swales, zai pits, etc for even more resiience while rebuilding aquifers, etc. It is important we start asking for and buying meats, eggs and milk that are mob grazed on diverse pastures, as well as foods grown in polycultures. If government steps in they will mess it up like they did with GMOs and the Dark Act. It is better to assert what we want with how we purchase foods.

[@nickv2463]

As brief as possible so we can spread your message, What is monocropping in so few words? And, what is mob grazing and how does it help?

[@seriouslyjoking2]

@@nickv2463 Monocrop agriculture is about sowing one crop every year in a similar piece of land, and not choosing to adopt practices such as rotation of other kinds of crops or even choosing to grow several crops on the same field, commonly known as polyculture. “Mob grazing is basically short duration, high density grazing with a longer than usual grass recovery period,” he says. “So you move a large group of cattle on average once a day and leave the grass to recover for between 40 and 100 days."

[@CatmanJimbo]

@@seriouslyjoking2 Yeah mob grazing is pretty much just having enough grazing land that the herd can rotate through without overgrazing, and not just them in a pen eating out of a trough of outside feed brought in, right? Pretty much the old school semi-nomadic herding lifestyle.

[@b_uppy]

@@nickv2463 Sorry to take so long to reply. I was tired and my brain fried when I tried to type a response. I wanted to be both succinct but give strong info to build on. You can always do a screen grab to copy it for reference if you wish to repost it. Feel free to cite me. Here it goes: Monocropping is growing one crop in isolation from another. Monocropping can be rows or entire fields of one crop. Monocropped plants are vulnerable to insects, disease, weeds. The soil degenerates due to a loss of a variety of plant geni. Monocropping means soil biomes generate less soil fertility. It uses more water, more often, more chemical inputs because plants are weaker, this comes down again to healthy soil. It typically accompanies tilling or 'no till' and depends on a denuded field before replanting. Monocropping is mostly done with fallow(a period of time where the ground is bare)/tilling/ These following videos illustrate how water acts on bare ground, so slowing it with small frequent catchments helps it absorb: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2O5oGqIltWIhqs kzbin.info/www/bejne/eaqqnoWXlsmmhqc Mob grazing is a special type of rotational grazing. It is best on diverse (weedy) fields. It capitalizes a high numbers of livestock in a confined area of pasture, often moving after a day. Emphasis is on making sure the pasture has time to recover, and that plants must left at 7" tall or taller or halfway (whichever leaves more soil cover). Mob grazing means grasses, forbs, and even lower parts of trees are eaten. The livestock are moved often to prevent 'picky eating.' The heavy stocking encourages more even foraging. Grasses get a knocked over and act as mulch protecting soil biomes and moisture, bare soil is shaded and protected from dessicating wind and 'solarization' (solarization oxidizes plants) both wind and solarization kill soil biomes. The animals leave fertility and divots (divots capture water, seed and humus for new plants). The plants regrow faster, producing more overall biomass per acre per year (feed) than overgrazing or feeding grain. The soils can absorb more moisture because more roots and deeper means more 'glues' that create aggregates the both hold and drain water; it increases soil fertility, carbon sequestration (soil needs carbon, this is beyond CO² drawdown), water permeability/less need for irrigation; nitrogen-fixing, as well as greatly reduced nitrogen run-off and fertility loss; Mob-grazed livestock produce significantly less methane, while encouraging much greater carbon sequestration than livestock pastured on monocropped fields, grained, fed hay, etc. Plant diversity matters. Mob-pastured livestock truly offset their carbon footprint. Livestock mob grazed on 'weedy' pasture are healthier. They have less illness, need fewer interventions. Their products are more nutrient dense with increases in omega 3 datty acidss, better fat profiles, and a wider array of (phytonutrients?). These videos illustrate how water acts on bare ground, so slowing it with small frequent catchments helps it absorb: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2O5oGqIltWIhqs kzbin.info/www/bejne/eaqqnoWXlsmmhqc If you have livestock graze in savanna-like conditions you can increase crops and crop diversity. Polycropped, holistic alley cropping works well here. Livestock can manage crop residues (the bits left after harvest). Mark Shepard does this, he fattens his pigs on chestnuts in the fall from his alley cropped trees. His book has relevant details. Worth buying, or at least borrowing from the library. Joel Salatin has written great articles on the subject, with citations on CO² sequestration.

[@rzadigi]

@@b_uppy fantastic summary of very important movement. I was happy to see you mention Salatin and Sheppard. Also worth exploring for those new to these ideas are the works of Allan Savory and Sepp Holzer. Permaculture and Masanobu Fukuoka also contributed greatly to this methodology🙏❤️

[@rzadigi]

This was a beautiful piece about the greater potential for how we farm and even how we live. But unfortunately the video didn’t share how they actually make a living and what they do with the hemp. Is this farming method actually sustainable today or is it still necessary to supplement their income with a cannabis crop? If farming is to change then young people need to see examples of others trying new ideas and methods and actually being successful 🙏❤️

[@kenster8270]

Shoutout to organic farming practices in general (as done and regulated over here in Europe). It's much much less harmful to those who work directly with the crops and harvesting etc. as well as being beneficial to humans and animals alike (including pets and farm animals) who live nearby or who consume the resulting products. Notably, infants, the elderly, the immunocompromized, and those suffering from allergies could benefit from reducing their intake of processed/synthetic foods and replacing it with organicallly produced foods with low levels of toxins that cause cancers and allergies. Just sayin'

[@meecee7136]

These women give me hope, I wish I had been as enlightened at their age. If we have hope, we have a chance. If we bow to cynicism, that is running rampart right now, I don't know what will happen. I'm choosing hope and love, the qualities these two women, and so many other young (and old) people embody.

[@tracelee7332]

Yes 🥰 Gen Z it's YOUR time. Don't let any old naysayers tell you different.

[@648Roland]

Dropping cotton for hemp would save in irrigation, insecticides, herbicides, harvesting and management while improving the soil. It's a no brainer.

[@clairedgaia3626]

How can i contact the 2 women in this film?

[@jamesbender1967]

As a Cannabis Horticulturist myself and being deeply passionate about this gift from God to man. I think I just fell in love with these beautiful souls 😍

[@suzannebinsley5940]

In Michigan you can grow pot, but not hemp.

[@dabberdan3200]

@@suzannebinsley5940how bassackwards is that rule in Michigan? It’s only a rule if you get caught 🤷‍♂️❤

[@hobsonpeter]

nice, what country are you growing in?

[@jasonbare3472]

How does one acquire land to grow hemp. I guess it's a crime to be poor.

[@Alexander-rq9he]

I hope these young ladies will incorporate some native plants among their weeds. ❤

[@SolidGoldShows]

Inspirational story for all women and people around the world 🌎 🙏 ❤

[@ross6343]

BRAVO young ladies [and PBS]! Henry Ford was a major advocate of hemp use in his day. Ford built a few cars out of hemp-related products; as well as, biofuel derived from hemp to run those cars. Glad these two young ladies are following hemp's magic!

[@tracelee7332]

Exactly 🙏 This is Gen Z time. New way of the world.

[@robertosilva8390]

They both explain farming so clearly. Very nice. God bless them!!

[@mikewilkins2030]

God Bless you! I can’t wait till society goes back to the basics! And this my friends is the direction! Great job ladies! I want to try some of your flower and make RSO! Best medicine

[@patriciamoffitt9543]

I moved to the Berkshires 3.5 years ago after having lived in the South all of my adult life. I was born and raised North of Hudson across the river. I'm jealous of your life. I am. What awesome and healthy, healthy minded people you are. I hope our country wakes up to the better and best practices for our mother earth. You gives us all hope. TY

[@jamesseltenreich652]

Great video I’d love to be involved in a hemp farm, as I use it

[@BespokeByNellie]

Just watched this and the other three episodes. Wow. Just wow. Please keep this series going. We so need to see this, be involved in this, for our own well-being of body, mind, spirit, and soul, and that of our planet, these lands everywhere. This episode was so good. The bond these sisters have with one another and the plants they are tending, the earth and soil. It’s so healing. I lost my sister last year and seeing Melany and Freya together is a healing balm. I was born in small town in upstate New York and I love seeing bits of that home. I would watch all of these women and the work they are doing on the regular. I want to see more of them all. Thank you @PBSTerra, thank you Women of the Earth. It makes me want to have access to land again to grow these plants. Minnesota has just legalized recreational cannabis, and Hemp Farming is a thing here too. The good we can do with these kinds of farming methods and how we can heal our land and one another. This!!! More of this please and thank you

[@ShynyMagikarp]

It’s a really nice video but I was left wanting to hear more of the details about the nutrients that hemp requires from soil, how that differe from other more traditional crops, how that is maintained after extraction, the soil nutirent and biomass density over time, etc etc. I don’t think this was bad, it was pleasant! But i was left wanting to hear more of the science part we’ve come to expect on this channel. Can we get a followup video in the more traditional style with some of those details?

[@TedByars]

Love this. Wish more people would pursue this type of farming.

[@elisemiller13]

Whole bunch of youth learning about permaculture, hemp and medicinal mushroom cultivation, etc. Hope many can have the land & resource necessary to carry through on dreams

[@brothernorb8586]

If it absorbs the heavy metals how is it healthy to use the flower?

[@jefferystube]

Title is a little misleading. Was the land they are farming damaged in some way? They don’t give any examples. As a fiber artist I got excited seeing this video, thinking they could be a source for hemp fiber that could be spun into yarn, but the way they are growing it is not close enough together to make good fiber, and they are shown harvesting the aerial parts, probably for hemp seed for their smoothies. But however they started, and whatever intentions they had, they are now recreational pot farmers. The same farmhouse in this video is the subject of a business insider article from May 21, 2022 listing Hudson Hemp as a full-time marijuana farm. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with marijuana, the species benefits the land no matter its final use, and the regulations and limitations on both are backwards. In my state I can grow a few plants (the thc kind) for recreational use, but there is no allowance to grow hemp for personal use as a fiber plant.

[@Onecent703]

My goal is to build beautiful tiny homes on a large plot of land with a garden for organic foods and an area to grow hemp which will provide many useful sustainable products🙏❤️

[@debravictoria7452]

What do they do with tbe hemp that's absorbed the heavy metals?

[@beadybaby]

How are the plants that have processed heavy metals out of the soil dealt with? I would assume since they are leaching metals out of the soil, that those metals are now in the plant, which would make it unusable wouldn’t it? How are things like lead removed and processed? There were a lot of platitudes in this episode, but not really much substance.

[@CoryKlim]

Yes the heavy metals are pulled up into the plant, they are mostly deposited into the trichomes (not the plant tissue) where the valuable cannabinoids are located rendering that cannabis largely unusable (short of remediation via HPLC or some other means which is expensive). This is why many states that have recreational cannabis require heavy metal testing. You have to collect the hemp and then do something to safely contain it or it will just be re-released into the soil when the plant dies and breaks down. In certain situations its still a useful tool though...

[@sean2val]

so true time for a change but not just the way we approach farming but everything

[@tracelee7332]

Yes. Gen Z are going to reclaim communities.

[@tracelee7332]

They will undo everything we sat back and let happen.

[@fanaticforager6610]

In a relatively recent timeline for biomass utilisation, a Mr. Henry Ford saw hemp’s innate diversity, so it’s just the atypical lobbying by linear markets are evidently the main obstacle 🌱✅ #☂️ #7fate9 #🌻🌻🌻🌻

[@michaelfoort2592]

How the heck do they harvest and dry those acres of hemp by hand? Amazing

[@ronsmith1364]

trick photography. Good message through a tad bit of fluff. If I remember correctly cannabis was being grown in small private plots in upstate in the mid '70s.

[@SpenceReam]

Beautiful

[@udoheinz7845]

Wow... we need more people and farms like this life and nature has more to give than a 9 to 5 office job and consuming

[@mascadadelpantion8018]

This is so badass!!!!! I am so glad I found this freakin Channel

[@ericweis1108]

This was fantastically well done!

[@cheebacheeobusiness3893]

Cheers to every kindred spirits from closet grower ❤

[@rungus24]

I'd quite like to know what their crop rotation is.

[@freedomforestlife]

What AMAZING young Women - Good on you girls - this is exactly what Mother Earth needs right now 💚✌🌿

[@Ifyouarehurtnointentwasapplied]

Our desert's/ farm's could be renewed buy adding the carbon they are missing because it grows so quickly compared to trees and volume per square meter of carbon and organic production isway higher than grass and slow growing trees/ shrubs

[@scottconlon5124]

Magic plant from the "dog 2star"the seeds of God. GROW HEMP CHANG THE WORLD

[@corydriver7634]

Who’s we? Maybe you fell out of sync with nature. We’ve rotated our crops for years. If you want to grow weed then grow weed stop making excuses to grow weed.

[@TsimonF]

Wasn’t too long ago like 5 years 1 lb was 10,000 in the Bronx right? Hemp is tall not short n bushy 😂 that’s buds

[@CausticLemons7]

I'm loving this series and excited for more!

[@QuiChiYang2]

I love the way they look & listen to each other. They are wholesome & deeply care for one another. As sisters you would not see such complimentary coming from city life. I wish them all the successes & Th🤝nk them for pointing out that hemp is a super plant. All the GMO fields in American need to plant hemp to restore SOIL HEALTH.

[@contemplating1015]

Agreed - well put🙏

[@nathanandsugar5252]

Monoculture farming is incredibly bad. Even something like rice paddies provide homes for animals and insects. Indigenous gardens in the Americas were grown integrated with the forest/jungle. I remember going to the Neal Smith wildlife refuge and the museum had an exhibit which showed the layers of a prairie. Every layer was like a different ecosystem. The perennial grasses held it it all together.

[@uncle_pappy_sam9983]

Fun fact. In South Dakota, they're doing studies on feeding the high protein "cake" left over from squeazing the CBD out of the flower seeds, which could help reduce (but not entirely replace) the amount of corn needed to feed cattle. My sister is one of the ones doing these studies to get her masters in agriculture.

[@rogeriolisto]

Lovely video. In my garden variety is the key as regenerate the earth multiple plants occupying the same plot😉

[@thomasdecarlo8543]

Lol ….. weed hanging in closets drying on the farm ….imagine that … we had grow lights with weed growing in our dorm room closet and when we cut and replanted the dorm room next to us used their closet to hang and dry the weed … a group cooperative effort … lol …eventually we had multiple rooms on the floor growing weed in closets …god bless the creative college student mind and can do attitude

[@deronjurgensen6412]

Hemp dogbane and hemp are not the same plant. While hemp is also good at removing heavy metals from the soil, the article sighted, stated that ragweed and hemp dogbane were found to be best at removing lead from the soil.

[@BEAKERBOT]

How wonderful! It would be amazing if they were to consider planting milkweed at the edges of the fields for the monarchs and the overall milkweed ecosystem is incredible.