By Doug Fine
Another Digital Age Human Joins the Eight Millennia-Old Harvest Dance My family is just in from harvesting a good portion of our winter superfood diet, care of a half dozen plant species. Think about this: in a time of...
By Doug Fine
What A Farmer Thinks About When The Hemp is Growing a Few Inches Per Day I love this part of the hemp season. Though I realize as they emerge that I could write these same eight words as the...
By Doug Fine
August, 2020: The Finish Line is In Sight: Final Steps If Hemp is Going to Save Humanity I admit it: I find it cool that I can confidently write, “hemp cleans up radioactive soil.” Not, “I heard it does,”...
By Doug Fine
We’re All Soil Farmers Now: Actively Mitigating Climate Change With Hemp As we dance toward triple digits again here in New Mexico today, I’m just in from the hemp field for breakfast, sipping my hemp/ginger shake and watching the...
Our friend and larger than life hemp hero Erik Rothenberg departed this world last Thursday, surrounded by love, family and friends. Erik is who first turned me on to and sold us our first hemp oil. He was a...
By Doug Fine
The first sprouts — keikis, as folks call babies of all species in Hawaii — have joined the multi-species clan here the Funky Butte Ranch. Accordingly, I have heaved that sigh that all farmers have when they’ve taken the...
The main reason I’m out in the field, one of the one percent of Americans who are farmers these days? Hemp is a superfood, and I like the feeling of the humans and goats I care about most having...
On Tuesday April 21st, the Senate passed a bipartisan bill worth some $480 billion that would replenish funds for emergency small business lending programs among other things. The good news is that thanks to our collective advocacy efforts, this...
Last Friday President Trump signed the CARES Act, a $2.2 trillion dollar stimulus and disaster relief package, that makes available funding to help deal with the unprecedented economic impact resulting from the COVID-19 virus. The bill includes a number...
IN THIS ISSUE Testimony of USDA Secretary begs the question, who is in charge of hemp policy? Vote Hemp releases 2020 California Hemp Report USDA approves crop insurance, deadline to apply is March 16 NASDA adopts new hemp policies...