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Hemp farming: the nutritional foundation for ecological self-sufficiency & Intentional Communities?
By R Snow & Others
Oct 27, 2009 - 2:35:00 AM
Hemp Farms
As the nutritional foundation for ecological, self-sufficient,
extended-family, hemp farms could have a profoundly positive effect
on the future of humanity. A diet of Hemp Hearts and vegetables
requires very little land, but produces very health humans.

A website dedicated to hemp foods,
www.hemphearts.com provides
tens of thousands of customer health survey comments which prove
that the daily consumption of as little as sixty grams of Hemp
Hearts with raw vegetables can provide superior health and energy
for individuals who previously consumed many times as much ordinary,
starch-prominent food. In fact, those who changed to a diet of Hemp
Hearts with vegetables usually experienced much better health if
they totally avoided the consumption of all breads, all potatoes,
all pastas, all cereals and all rice. From their experiences, it
also seems that there is no human need for any other vegetable
proteins, for any other vegetable oils or even for any animal
proteins--except as dietary novelties.
When cultivated by hand and shelled with hand powered machines,
hemp plants can easily produce over seven hundred kilograms of Hemp
Hearts per acre per year. With appropriate pruning and the
cultivation of more than one crop per year, multiples of that
production will often be possible. We have proven over the past ten
years, therefore, that a single acre of land, farmed by hand, can
easily produce sufficient Hemp Hearts and vegetables to guarantee
superior health and energy for more than thirty individuals--hemp
farm residents, visitors and customers. We have also proven that the
seed wastes--the shells, the Hemp Heart fragments and the seeds that
are too small for shelling--are perfect feeds, by themselves, for
fish, poultry and mammals. It is easily calculated that every
one-acre, extended-family, hemp farm would be able to use its hemp
seed wastes to produce sufficient poultry, eggs, dairy products,
fish and meat to enhance the diets of its residents and visitors as
well as many customers--sufficient again for at least thirty
individuals from a single one-acre farm.
But, environmentalists calculate that as our resources are now
being utilized, the production from at least five acres of arable
land is required for the support of each living human. They claim
that there are now more humans on the Earth than can be supported
without irreversible environmental degradation. They have converged
ideologies to some degree with the previously discredited socialists
to gain increasing influence in Western governments which have
produced more and more regulation to reflect their shared belief
systems: In promoting their programs in support of “the Vulnerable”,
they tax and design regulation to otherwise discourage the most
productive; In promoting their programs in support of “the Planet”,
they similarly tax and design regulation to otherwise discourage the
most productive. Because they believe that there are five times as
many humans on the Earth as can be supported by the Earth, they do
not even pretend to offer a more efficient system for maintaining
equal productivity. Instead, “the Red/Green Convergence” overwhelms
our consciousness with questionable science and manipulates public
opinion to guarantee themselves positions of increasing power,
enabling them to reward themselves and select winners from within
their belief system. The net effect of their regulation will be to
produce less and less necessities with more and more waste. Like
communism, this is another top/down regulatory system based on an
imperfect ideology. It can only limit the achievements of most of us
while producing misery and starvation for millions. Although we have
already proven that our hemp farming model can provide better
nutrition, resulting in much better health, for more than 150 times
as many humans as can be supported by the existing system, I do not
expect that our self-sufficient, extended-family, hemp farms will be
embraced and nurtured by the various regulatory agents that we
encounter. In fact, it is only by defining ourselves as “families”
and as “farms” rather than as “businesses” that we will have any
hope of circumventing the myriad regulations that would otherwise
prevent us--from utilizing our unique structures, from utilizing our
unique energy systems, from utilizing our unique waste handling
systems, from producing food in residential structures, from
consuming our own foods, from consuming raw foods, from marketing
our foods, from receiving visitors, from feeding visitors, from
allowing our children to assist with production, etc., etc..
However, if we are able to demonstrate:
(A) that extended-family hemp farms can be developed in stages
using their own hemp fibers for construction materials;
(B) that they can be heated and cooled without carbon fuels;
(C) that they can utilize wind mills and environmentally
compatible batteries for electrical energy and
(D) that they can utilize all of their own wastes in the
production of their food and shelter--then we will be able to
claim a position of eminence which may protect us to some degree.
Just as we at Rocky Mountain Grain Products are utilizing a
participating public to prove that tiny quantities Hemp Hearts can
replace large amounts of ordinary starch-prominent foods to provide
superior health and nutrition, so we will also utilize a
participating public to prove that self-sufficient, extended-family,
hemp farms are capable of sustaining thirty humans per acre with no
nutritional deficiencies, no energy deficiencies, no raw material
deficiencies, no waste burdens and no need for paternalistic
governments. We will soon offer--Adventures In
Growth--prefabricated, snap together, well-lighted, well-insulated
structures, surrounding large heated courtyards, with appropriate
water, energy and waste handling systems that will make it possible
for parents, children, grandparents, grandchildren and friends to
live and work together to produce an abundance of food and other
necessities--some of which will be marketed to guests and neighbors.
If our numbers seem improbable, then drive one thousand miles
through any agricultural areas of your choosing, taking notes. You
will certainly pass many hundreds of square miles of fields used for
cereal starch production, many hundreds of square miles of fields
used for animal forage production, hundreds of square miles of
fields used for oil seed, sugar and fruit production and hundreds of
square miles of fields used for vegetable starch production. None of
this production has any value for those who have changed to Hemp
Hearts and vegetables--except as an occasional novelty. If
self-sufficient, extended-family, hemp farms were widespread and the
planet was no longer so burdened with the production of most of the
nutritionally inferior field crops that now cover more than ninety
nine percent of the arable land on the Earth, then the planet would
also be relieved of the input burdens, the processing burdens, the
distribution burdens, the recycling burdens and the health care
burdens that are the inevitable result of our dependence on these
nutritionally inferior field crops. As an increasing percentage of
the humans on the Earth modify their residences or move to
self-sufficient, extended-family, hemp farms--then there will be a
decreasing market for most of the irrelevant merchandise in most of
our stores and the planet will be further relieved of the burdens
involved in the manufacture and distribution and recycling of these
items. As more and more of us become less and less taxable,
governments will shrink and the refugees from that system will also
begin moving to self-sufficient, hemp farms…..If you would like to
be able to live so that your friends and family members were all
able to participate usefully together in the production of an
abundance of marketable necessities, but leaving most of each day
free for personal development, please follow our progress.
Copyright by R. Snow
Did you know?
Source:
http://www.coolhemp.com/HempSeeDee/hempfacts.shtml
It is estimated that hemp has approximately 25,000 uses?
From food, paint and fuel to clothing and construction materials, hemp
is used. There are even hemp fibres in your Red Rose® and Lipton® tea
bags. And several cars made today contain hemp.
The oldest relic of human industry is a piece of hemp fabric (canvas)
found in ancient Mesopotamia dating back to approximately 8000 B.C. The
oldest surviving piece of paper was made over 2000 years ago in China and
was also made from hemp fibre. In 2500 B.C. the pharaohs used hemp in the
construction of the great pyramids.
Hemp was so important in England in the 16th century that King Henry
VIII passed a law in 1553 which fined farmers who failed to grow at least
one quarter acre of hemp for every 60 acres of arable land they owned.
There was even a time in history for over 200 years when you could pay
your taxes in America with hemp. In 1850 there were more than 8,300 hemp
farms in the United States.
Every 3.6 seconds someone in the world dies of hunger. Hemp seeds
are the most nutritious and economical solution to end world hunger. With
an 80 percent concentration of "good fats" our bodies need for good health
maintenance and protein with all eight amino acids plus optimum dietary
fibre, hemp truly is a "perfect balance" food source.
Health Benefits of Hemp Seed >>
Nature has provided the essential
nutrients for restoring and maintaining optimal health in a
power-packed seed that is gluten, cholesterol and sugar free. Pure,
natural, raw shelled hemp seed - the best single food source of
protein, essential fats, vitamins and enzymes on the planet.
Health Benefits of Hemp Seed >>

Nature has provided the essential
nutrients for restoring and maintaining optimal health in a
power-packed seed that is gluten, cholesterol and sugar free. Pure,
natural, raw shelled hemp seed - the best single food source of
protein, essential fats, vitamins and enzymes on the planet.
Online source of hemp foods:
http://www.healing-source.com
The first diesel engine was designed to run on vegetable oils, one of
which was hemp oil. In the 1930s Henry Ford produced an automobile
composed of 70 percent hemp plastic which also ran on hemp based fuel and
oil. In 2001 the "Hempcar" circled the North American continent powered by
hemp oil.
The paintings of Rembrandt (1606- 1669), Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
and Thomas Gainsborough (1727- 1788) were painted primarily on hemp
canvas, often with hemp oil based paint. Over 50 percent of all chemical
pesticides sprayed are used in the cultivation of cotton. Hemp is eight
times stronger than cotton and more air-permeable. Hemp can grow
vigorously (up to 16 feet) in 100 days without the use of harmful
pesticides and herbicides... healthier for your skin and the environment.
One acre of hemp can produce as much raw fibre as 4.1 acres of trees.
Pulping hemp for paper would produce a strong paper that lasts incredibly
long and doesn't yellow with age. Also, using hemp as a raw source for
paper would eliminate the need to cut down our dwindling old-growth
forests which contribute to climate control and clean the air we breathe.
Hemp has a higher quality fiber than wood fiber. Far fewer
caustic chemicals are required to make paper from hemp than from trees.
Hemp paper does not turn yellow and is very durable. The plant grows
quickly to maturity in a season where trees take a lifetime.
Pot is NOT harmful to the human body or mind. Marijuana
does NOT pose a threat to the general public. Marijuana is very much a
danger to the oil companies, alcohol, tobacco industries and a large
number of chemical corporations. Various big businesses, with plenty of
dollars and influence, have suppressed the truth from the people.
…POT IS ILLEGAL BECAUSE BILLIONAIRES WANT TO REMAIN BILLIONAIRES!
Subject Related Books

The Hemp Manifesto: 101 Ways That Hemp Can Save Our World
by Rowan Robinson
Sometimes it is only through the pithy insights of a pocket
book or manifesto that the world can fully understand an issue. Such is
certainly the case with this Cannabis Sativa, as most of the American
people - especially the DEA - seem to have trouble understanding the
practical value of industrial hemp and the spiritual and medicinal value
of its psychoactive sister, Marijuana. I say America, because the rest of
the Western World is already catching on (hemp is being grown in Canada in
and all over Europe now), whereas China, Japan, and many other eastern
countries never forgotten this miracle crop. Yes, miracle crop. Hemp can
be put to just about any use: It can be made into wood, paper, clothing,
fiberglass, canvas, twine, rope, soap, shampoo, cosmetics, oils, paints,
inks, putty, and coatings. It is also perhaps the most important food
crop, as it stands supreme as the planet's single most nutritious source
of protein and essential fatty acids. It can even be made into auto fuel!!
(Visit Colorado's Rocky Mountain Institute's website for information on
this long-known property of many carbohydrates.) Moreover, hemp treads
much lighter on the planet, as it usually does not require pesticides or
herbicides (indeed, it is used as natural herbicide); and its fast-growing
roots and self-mulching leaves can even rejuvenate undernourished and
eroding soils. In effect, by converting to hemp paper and woods products
instead of felling old growth and dwindling indigenous rain forests, and
furthermore by using hemp to retain soil composition in areas were erosion
is advancing (hemp can grow just about anywhere), we could begin to
restore declining ecosystems. Without understatement, hemp could lend a
much-needed hand in saving the planet. This book was a real eye-opener. In
terms of price, expediency and insight you can't go wrong.

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The Emperor Wears No Clothes: The Authoritative Historical Record of
Cannabis and the Conspiracy Against Marijuana
by Jack Herer
Product Description
Jack Herer has updated his authoritative history of hemp's myriad uses and
of the war on this plant, just as it has become high-profile news, with
supporters such as Woody Harrelson and Willie Nelson. Herer thoroughly
documents the petrochemical industry's plot to outlaw this renewable source
of paper, energy, food, textiles, and medicine. Photos, illustrations &
charts. 10 tables.
A review by a reader:
Although some of the historical data can be called into question, the
essential claims of this book remain unrefuted by the disinformation
campaigns of the anti-marijuana lobby. Herer shatters cannabis myths; he shows, with hard data that: pot has absolutely no toxicity to human tissues;
pot has anti-carcinogenic properties; the tar, although greater in
proportion than tobacco, is completely water-soluble; smoking marijuana
shortly after having a stroke prevents the swelling of the brain -- and
consequently much of the brain damage and loss of function associated with
strokes.
http://www.world-mysteries.com/hemp4all.htm **********************
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