Hemp doesn’t cost the Earth….the remarkable story of the ever giving Hemp plant.

• Hemp can grow without pesticides and herbicides
• Columbus sailed to the “New World” in ships with hemp sails and rigged with hemp rope
• The original Levi jeans were made with hemp fabric
• A hemp crop is ready to harvest in only 100 days
• The first draft of the American Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper
• During the reign of Elizabeth 1st all landowners were required to grow a hemp crop or face a fine. It was essential for the naval fleet in its defense of the realm
• Hemp Seed Oil is the most balanced nutritional oil
• Betty Ross made the first American flag with hemp canvas
• For paper production – one acre of hemp provides the equivalent of four acres of trees
• 25% of the world’s agro-chemicals drench the cotton crop.
• Henry Ford built a car out of hemp
• Old hemp rope was recycled to make early bank notes…“money for/from old rope”
• Early editions of the King James Bible were printed on hemp paper.
• The Hemp Store offered the first 100% hemp Frisbees!!!
• In 1993 hemp is grown again in the UK for the first time in 70 years.
• Modern car manufactures incorporate hemp in car parts.
• Hemp is the strongest natural fibre
• In the 19th century 80% of all the world’s fabric was sourced from hemp.
• Rembrandt and Van Gogh used hemp canvas and hemp base paints
• Using 55% hemp in a t-shirt instead of 100% cotton saves over 100 gallons of water