Farmer Direct First to Receive Domestic Fair Trade Certification
Farmer-owned business of 70 certified organic family farms is the first business in Canada and the U.S. to receive domestic fair trade certification. Organic consumers can purchase fairly traded, flax, wheat, beans, hemp, peas, lentils and other crops grown in the Northern Hemisphere.

What to Eat to Lose Weight: 7 Snacks Under 200 Calories
Two HIA members are in this slide show from Glamour Magazine: Nature's Path Organic Foods and Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods & Oils.

Earth Creations Sell Fashionable Clothing With Eco-Friendly Dyes
Martin Ledvina, co-founder of Earth Creations Inc., is a chemical engineer.

Hemp Bar a Healthy Snack Choice
Hemp Power is an energy bar which is made with flax, oats, honey, pea fibre, hemp and sea buckthorn berries from Saskatchewan.

Hemp Textile Wholesalers in the U.S.
The wholesale business for hemp in the United States is a small field. Currently it is host to about five players...

Flying High: Hemp Seeds To Replace Airline Peanuts?
Bad pun aside, this sounds like an interesting opportunity.

Farm Genesis president Keith Hannah (left) and marketing director Markus Schmulgen. Photo credit: Bruce Bumstead, The Brandon Sun.

By Bill Redekop
Winnipeg Free Press
June 18, 2010

Hemp Moo milk is Waskada firm's first product.

WASKADA -- Many of us can still remember when our parents used to bring home those big red boxes of Carnation skim milk powder.

It was like having a cow in the cupboard. You just dumped a cup of powder in a jug, filled it with cold water and stirred. You never ran out of milk.

A southwestern Manitoba company hopes to introduce a similar product in six months but for milk alternative Hemp Moo.

Farm Genesis has been working on a milk alternative powder mix using super healthy hemp seed after market research showed milk alternatives like 'silk' (soy milk) are one of the fastest growing food items in grocery stores.

Robin Diether, left, and John Wells stand in Wells' hemp field. Photo credit: 100 Mile House Free Press.

By Ken Alexander
100 Mile House Free Press
July 6, 2010

The 100 Mile House Industrial Hemp Project is up and running again, as a student co-ordinator has been hired and a test plot has been seeded.

Project manager Erik Eising was in 100 Mile last week to meet with Horse Lake resident Robin Diether who was hired as the project student co-ordinator on June 30.

Eising says they had numerous applications for the student co-ordinator position and Diether was the one who stood out for the four-person selection panel.

Diether has already started maintenance and observation work on the test plot and will have numerous tasks to perform throughout the growing season.

At Nature's Path, we live for healthy, great-tasting organic foods. It's why we get up in the morning. But we are also a company that wants to do more than just sell breakfast foods. We aspire to advance the cause of people and planet, along the path to sustainability. And we like to think we put our money where our mouth is. Or rather, where our heart is. Because growing organic, healthy foods in a sustainable way is our passion-the cornerstone of our family company. It's where, and how, it all began.

The number one organic cereal manufacturer in North America, Nature's Path is a privately run, family business (currently two generations!) that has been committed to organics and sustainability for 25 years.  The whole, extended Nature's Path family is committed to our values and mission: to be a trusted name for quality organic foods in every home - socially responsible, environmentally sustainable and financially viable. 

All of Nature's Path's products are USDA certified organic, grown using a wholesome process without any synthetic pesticides, chemical fertilizers, herbicides and Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).  We believe organic foods are healthier for people and the environment!

But we also know that when it comes down to it-no matter what kind of a difference we want to make as a company, and no matter how much you share those values-if our food isn't delicious and exciting, we're not living up to our fullest potential. Healthy foods don't need to be boring and tasteless. Which is why we spend our days and nights dreaming up new recipes, tracking down exotic new ingredients, and researching the latest (or most ancient) superfoods - sustainable powerhouse foods like hemp!

We were delighted to share our appreciation for this sustainable crop as a proud sponsor of the first annual Hemp History Week, and are even prouder to offer the nutritious benefits of hemp to our consumers' daily diet with our delicious Sunny Hemp Granola Bars, Hemp Plus Granola, Hemp Plus Instant Hot Oatmeal, and Hemp Plus Waffles.

For more information go to www.naturespath.com or find us on Facebook and Twitter at www.facebook.com/naturespath and twitter.com/naturespath.

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