Cannabis Sativa Industrial Hemp Information Why organic hemp? If you’re left on on an island with one plant, make it organic hemp. In 20 years on our island homestead, we made many of the products we offer today with traditional skills and organic hemp. Why hemp? It’s hard to know where to start. Hemp is… A crop of a thousand uses. Different parts of the hemp plant make a wide variety of products. Hemp fiber makes ropes, textiles and clothing. Hemp oil can be used for things like soaps, care products, natural rubber, biodegradable plastics and fuel. You can even eat parts of the hemp plant...

Off The Grid Homesteading On Denman Island 2012 Homesteading is a learning, refining process. In almost 13 years of doing it, we have almost mastered the art of pacing ourselves — it's hard to resist the urge to try to get everything done all at once; but one burns out that way. It's better to fall into the rhythm of the seasons and let things develop and mature in their own time. In other words, we are slowly learning the virtue of taking time off and walking on the beach from time to time— the exercise (not that we ever lack it, working as hard as we do in the garden and the zoo), the ...

How To Waterproof Rawganique's Hemp Shoes, Boots, Bags, Hats, Clothing & Jackets Rawganique was founded in the Pacific Northwest in 1997, so it comes as no surprise that we have had to come with ways to waterproof our organic cotton, linen and hemp products in our rainy Pacific Northwest winters as our love of hemp won't allow us to go a day without wearing hemp clothing and shoes and bags.While there are many different options for waxing fabric canvases, we have opted for the most natural of them by choosing Otter Wax which is made in Oregon from sustainably sourced beeswax and lanoli...