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The Emerald Triangle in Mendocino County, California has a rich history of cannabis growers for over 50 years. Listen in as we speak with Cathy Brown, who shares with us the ups and downs of cannabis cultivation and the struggles for small farmers to get proper licensing according to strict and expensive guidelines.

Learn how she has turned the setbacks into an opportunity to live even closer to nature and share her rich land with others. Visitors can have a first hand experience of sustainable living on her 160 acre ranch, eat from her organic garden, and have a cannabis-friendly camping experience.

BIO

Cathy and her husband Bill are off-grid, Cannabis homesteaders for 25yrs, living a lifestyle detached from centralized services and supporting local community-based businesses in Mendocino County, California’s Emerald Triangle. As homesteaders, they both do what they can to sustain themselves on the land. Retired environmental science and biology teacher, Cathy has always crafted herbal remedies/products for the family as needed and when appropriate, Cannabis is an ingredient. Cannabis is treated no differently from any other plant Cathy grows in the garden. Everything grows together.

To make the homestead more financially sustainable, Cathy has diversified Farm to Family’s income to include “Cannabis Friendly Tent Camping” through Hipcamp..

Here, they offer a judgement free, private space on the homestead for camping guests to enjoy the forested mountains of the Emerald Triangle. As additional experiences, guests can get a first hand look at their lifestyle: book a tour of the off-grid homestead, eat from the CCOF certified organic gardens, or book some time to chill with their horses.

Learn best practices for healthy soil and better oil with Steve Groff of Cedar Meadow.Farm.

BIO

Steve Groff and his family farm 200 acres of cover crops for seed, pumpkins,hemp, and heirloom tomatoes in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Some fields have been continuously no tilled for 40 years! He has spoken all over the U.S and in a dozen other countries. For the past 20 years he has pursued how to make nutrient dense foods a reality on his farm.

Steve is developer of the famous Tillage Radish cover crop and is the founder of Cover Crop Coaching which educates farmers and farm advisors about effective

cover crop use and soil health principles. His recently released book “The Future-Proof Farm; Changing Mindsets in a Changing World” is available at SteveGroff.com.

CedarMeadow.Farm was started in 2020 to market the unique CBD hemp products grown on Steve’s Cedar Meadow Farm. “Better Soil, Better Oil” is this brands

claim that is backed up by ongoing studies and based on the results from decades of using this system on his 3 rd generation vegetable farm. Transparency is a high

value, and anyone is invited to see for themselves how this regenerative farm is packing more nutrients into the products produced from these well cared for fertile fields!

Alice is an exceptional leader in the hemp space with Kentucky Heritage Hemp. KHH has gone above and beyond to lead the industry with top notch and quality CBD for brands such as Charlotte's Web.

Listen in as we learn more about regenerative agriculture and what it takes to lead with stellar and respectable business practices in the cannabis space.

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Alice is the President of Kentucky Heritage Hemp, the premier provider of 100% USDA certified organic CBD and other hemp products. KHH extracts CBD and CBG from organic hemp plants and creates top-of-the-line extract, distillate, isolate and custom blends. The company’s laboratory is cGMP and kosher certified. Kentucky Heritage Hemp's bulk wholesale ingredients are used by the world's most exacting consumer brands for capsules, tinctures, drinks, edibles and topicals. 

After starting her career in large public companies (PepsiCo, Kraft, Sears), Peterson shifted to high-growth businesses.  Her early focus was finance and M&A before moving to operating roles.  She ran the Treasury and Corporate Finance functions at Sears during the company’s restructuring (mid-1990s), and was asked to lead the Sears Online business in 1999; she grew it from zero to $500 million in 18 months.

She left the Fortune 100 world and in 2002 founded Syrus Global.  Syrus created a technology platform to provide risk management, ethics and compliance solutions for businesses large and small. This service became a core service for businesses focused on Environmental Social and Governance (ESG).  Syrus was acquired by a public company in 2009.  She stayed with the acquiring company through 2011 to open and grow markets in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Peterson is the founder and principal of The Loretto Group, which helped businesses achieve sustainable profitability, operational scaling, and winning cultures.  This built on a prior role as Executive Vice President of Operations for Fluresh, a cannabis grower, processor, manufacturer, and retailer in Michigan.  There, she was responsible for bringing together the people, processes, and systems to build velocity into the core business model.

Prior to joining Fluresh, Ms. Peterson ran a healthcare start-up where she operationalized the founder’s concept, raised capital, and enhanced the user experience.  She had previously worked in private equity, where she bought, turned around, and sold companies with her partners.  She started and ran Big Shoulders Capital, an asset-based lender.

Alice Peterson has served on the boards of large and small, public and private companies, for more than 20 years.  Public company boards include 360 Communications, Fleming Companies, TBC Corporation, Hanesbrands, and Williams Partners.  She currently serves on the board of SP Plus Corporation (NASDAQ) and chairs its Audit Committee.  She is a qualified financial expert.

She is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, The Chicago Network, and the International Women’s Forum.  She holds an MBA in finance from Vanderbilt University.

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We wear clothing daily and it touches our largest organ of our bodies, our skin. In addition, our worn clothing goes through the wash almost weekly, and microfibers leak into our water supply.

If you could know more about your clothes and what ingredients they contain, would that change your purchasing decision?  Do you think there should be more transparency for the Fashion Industry to share the fabric ingredients and include labor costs, etc?

Tune in as we speak with Peter Gorse, who created a “Garment Label” prototype akin to our food’s “Nutritional Label”.

BIO

Peter Gorse trained as a product designer at Coventry University in the UK. One of his designs won an Audi Design Foundation Award.

Afterwards, he set up his own brand to design products, which included a small clothing collection. These products and clothing were sold via a number of wholesale accounts from Dockers Europe, Paul Smith Shops, Selfridges, plus numerous independents. Peter has also gained experience of marketing by filming a promotional video with MTV and appearing on an early morning breakfast TV show called Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast.

More recently, Peter has had the opportunity to conduct textile research on regenerated cellulose fibres at Cranfield University in the UK.

During Covid, when laboratories were closed, Peter created the Garment Facts label. Which he is now trying to progress after receiving significant interest.

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Matt Marino has moved hempcrete construction to new levels with his modular build system.  Listen in as Matt uncovers the how and why of building with hempcrete.

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Matt Marino is the President and Founder at Homeland Hempcrete. He has a background in operations and has focused most of his career on supply chain efficiencies, but has also spent years building, renovating, and managing properties. Early on when exploring the hemp industry he realized that building with hemp not only aligned with his interests but also had the opportunity to make a huge impact. His goal now is to make hempcrete more accessible and accelerate the adoption of healthy and sustainable building materials.

Founded the same year the US Farm Bill legalized production of industrial hemp, Homeland Hempcrete entered the market utilizing the traditional cast-in-place build method. After years of trial and error they decided there must be a more effective solution that will decrease install time and get more hempcrete to more customers.

The solution they have embraced is pre-made, pre-cured, high-quality modular hemp panels. Their panel system allows for consistent quality, quick and easy install, customized design, with finishes that can be applied immediately after install.

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Join us as we speak with Abhishek Mohan, Founder & CEO of Hempstreet.  Learn the connections of medical cannabis in regards to Ayurvedic formulations and the benefits for a patient centric approach.

BIO

Abhishek has been part of sunrise industries his whole career. Over the last 15 years he has been part of the online games, data security, venture builder and fintech space and seen ventures go from seed to public listing across south east asia, India and Japan.

Abhishek is the Founder & CEO of Hempstreet, which is India’s first and largest research to retail venture in the medical cannabis space. The company is now in the midst of the largest rollout of medical cannabis dispensing clinics and its network currently stands at over 9100 clinics across 25 states. Hempstreet has also recently won the coveted BIG grant from BIRAC (the first ever medical cannabis company to win) for the development of a “world first” novel transdermal delivery technology for cannabinoids. Previous winners were biotech stalwarts like Bharat Biotech who developed one of the key covid-19 vaccines. Hempstreet is taking the fight to mass ailments utilizing responsibly dispensed cannabis based medication.

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Robert Ziner knows how to use AI-based manufacturing systems to scale business and is doing this with Hemp. With over 30 years of previous experience in building materials and AI, Robert brings a wealth of skills and know-how to expand the industry in hemp bioplastics.

Robert previously founded and operated a public company which acquired three companies and generated over $240M a year in sales.  He has been working with advanced processing systems for hemp for the past 7 years.

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Robert Ziner is the CEO of Canadian Industrial Hemp Corporation, the company. He founded CIHC in 2016 after being sent to China by the Canadian Alberta government, to determine if AI could be effective in building a viable and thriving hemp fiber industry in that province.

Robert has a 30-year history in AI and advanced manufacturing technologies as they relate to natural fibers. He was in the lumber industry since 1974 and in 1987 partnered with General Electric’s Factory Automation group to develop an AI-driven, Computer Integrated Manufacturing application for secondary wood processing – which was patented in 1991.

This technology redefined the economics of secondary wood processing, increasing production flexibility and consistency to help reduce production costs by over 50% - and increasing the Value Added by over 100%.

After building a new facility in 1997, sales increased from $37 M a year to $240 M by 2001

CIHC’s proprietary Smart Stalk System is now globally patent-pending: It redefines the economics of hemp stalk processing by transforming it into hemp fiber optimization and includes the world’s first automated hemp fiber quality control system.

Robert is a recognized expert in fiber processing, optimization - softwood lumber and HEMP!

Robert believes in the power of Cyber-Physical engineering, structures and systems; recognizing that innovation is always first created in the imagination's virtual world - to then be translated into existence!

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Hop on for a quick chat with Caleb Kauffman of Lancashire Farm as we hold space for the community of small farmers, the heart of the hemp industry.

Caleb has been leading with bringing transparency to the marketplace from costs of farming to cost of isolates into the larger market. He is on a quest to stand up for fair compensations that is sustainable for supporting further growth of the farmer and the industry as a whole.

BIO

Caleb Kauffman was born and raised in the rolling hills of Lancaster county.

Caleb’s passion for hemp comes from his own life experiences. In his thirties he was diagnosed with PTSD from childhood sexual trauma. Since remembering this over 20 years later in life he has been on an intense journey of love, acceptance, venerability, perseverance, and a belief that at the very source of it all, that it is good.

Cannabis has changed his life. He first started using CBD and THC a couple of years ago and immediately noticed the improvements in his mental life. At the same time Caleb started going to counseling to work through the trauma. Together with cannabis and counseling he began the beautiful journey of healing.

Caleb’s heart is to grow hemp flowers with love and care because that is how cannabis has cared for him. His goal is to help save the planet with hemp.  He truly believes that this plant can completely change our life and how we interact with nature. Caleb has found a sacred work in being passionate about the cannabis plant. His hope is to grow some of the best hemp flower around and help others find healing in the process.

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Join Hemp Foundation TALKS! as we speak with Marci Zaroff, the founder of over three decades of Eco Lifestyle brands and a world renowned environmental leader.

Listen in as we learn about the progression of sustainable fashion through organic textiles into the mainstream, further insights into the growth of ECOfashion, and how fashion can impact social justice and regenerative agriculture for good.

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Join us on Hemp Foundation TALKS! as we learn insights from a top hemp industry leader, Paul Benhaim.

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Paul was born in London, UK and is now Living in Mullumbimby, Australia

Paul discovered the nutritional qualities of Hemp seed while in Canada (1991) and this led to travelling the world searching for answers as to why this ‘eco-wonder plant’ was not being widely accepted.

He created his own ‘chocolate bar’ based on hemp seed. Upon reaching supermarket level acceptance he considered the product a success (the best selling health food bar in supermarkets) and moved on to create a range of other food products, including Hemp Milk, Hemp Ice Cream, Hemp Bread and more, for various companies. These products continue to be successful.

Paul also developed a commercial Hemp based plastic as an alternative to mainstream petrochemicals. This environmentally friendly alternative is now being used in a number of products.

Skills in promoting and marketing a sensitive, not-well-known product to the mainstream have proved valuable in Paul’s projects including founding a number of businesses; authoring 9 books; producing two music CDs and a TV pilot / DVD called Not The Cooking Show.

Working in Australia in the hemp industry and as a manager of a luxury health spa led Paul to his goal to create a truly sustainable health retreat/business/community centre and he has been accumulating knowledge to this end throughout his career.

Higher Nature was next.

Founder of Zeo International (formerly Zelfo Australia) and founder of the not-for-profit NGO Common Unity Foundation where Paul assists those with a vision of setting up community.

He also founded the Southern Hemisphere's largest hemp food production company Hemp Foods Australia in 1999 and brought it through to legislative changes in 2017 as CEO

Also co-founder and CEO of Elixinol LLC, one of the world's largest manufacturers of whole plant CBD hemp oil (low THC) bulk, OEM and branded products.

Also, CEO of Elixinol Global Limited (ASX: EXL) from inception, through IPO - growing the company from $100m to over $1/2billion.

Paul is Now Chairman of The Hemp Plastic Company and Non-Exec. Director Elixinol Global.

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Listen in as we speak with Duane Stjernholm, who is leading Colorado Hemp Processing by assembling a 21st century cooperative.  One that protects and rewards the farmers and creates opportunities for collaboration and cooperation in order to expand the supply and benefits of hemp into the mainstream.

BIO

Duane D. Stjernholm was born in La Junta, Colorado, a small town in the southeastern corner of the state where he learned Farming and Ranching from his Grandfathers.  Raised in nearby Cheraw, an even smaller town, he graduated Co-Valedictorian from Cheraw High School and continued his education at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, earning a B.S. Degree in Psychology. Seeking to explore the world in search of adventure, he joined the Peace Corps and spent two years in the Philippines working in Rice Irrigation Water Management in the Province of Pampanga, and subsequently teaching Introductory Social Sciences at the University of the Philippines at Los Baños, Laguna.

Recovering from “Reverse Culture Shock” upon his return to Colorado, he attended the Iliff School of Theology in Denver earning a Master of Arts in Religion Degree, specializing in Religious Philosophy and Metaphysics.  Soon after graduation from Iliff  he was fortunate to attend a live speech by the renown World Citizen and Inventor, R. Buckmaster Fuller, who inspired him on his current 35 year Mission of changing the prevalent mind-set of humanity from competition to cooperation and collaboration in order to Co-Create the Greatest and Highest Good for all Earth Citizens. To that end he founded the unprecedented Member organization, the United Earth Ecclesia.

To support and further his Mission he has worked in a number of hospitality and service oriented positions culminating in his last positions as Production Administrator at the nationwide non-profit, Learning Ally (formerly Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic). He has  published two books and launched United Earth Ecclesia website, ExLo.org, dedicated to the Co-Creation of the Greatest and highest Good for all Earth Citizens.

Returning to La Junta after a 40 year absence to be closer to relatives and out of the big city,  Duane saw a need for Agricultural Hemp processing facilities in the Arkansas Valley and beyond for the rapidly expanding hemp industry in Colorado.  He responded to the "find a need and fill it" adage, and as a result he and his Co-Founder have established the Colorado Hemp Processing Cooperative (COHPC.ORG) to fill that need and Further the Mission of Cooperation not competition.

Join Hemp Foundation TALKS! As we speak with Kevin Schultz.

Kevin is an expert and pioneer on moving hemp at large.  From a logistical standpoint a lot of hemp entrepreneurs may miss this key factor in the supply chain.  Kevin sheds some light on key issues that every hemp entrepreneur must know in order to deliver their goods in the safest and most efficient way.

BIO

Kevin is the Co-Founder, President of The 357 Company - on a mission to disrupt the status quo in logistics and create “best in class” hemp logistic solutions while educating and advocating for the entire hemp supply chain as the industry scales.

The 357 Company has pioneered the standard operating procedures for the logistics component of the hemp supply chain.  Since 2019 - the 357 Hemp Logistics division has built a trusted reputation within the hemp industry by providing fully insured logistics solutions the industry can truly count on.  In 2021 - the company launched its 357 Kerbsyde division to provide a direct to consumer solution for vaporizers and e-cigs.

Before co-founding The 357 Company, Kevin Schultz served as Vice President at Verano Holdings LLC, a vertically integrated company of medical and recreational cannabis licenses. In that role, he had a strong focus on the entire supply chain while ensuring compliance and production goals were being strategically planned to supply the market with consistent and safe products.

Prior to Verano, he designed and built out the B2B wholesale divisions in Illinois and New York for PharmaCann LLC – also a national vertical cannabis operator.  Both states were highly regulated by strict medical cannabis laws that required compliant transportation standard operating procedures to safely deliver products to dispensaries.

Prior to his career in medical cannabis and hemp – Kevin founded and operated several businesses including those specializing in the distribution of implantable medical devices to surgeons and operational efficiency software to hospital C-suites and operating rooms across America.  Kevin earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing Sales from Northern Illinois University.

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Join us for a talk with Ramon Granados, Founder and CEO of Hemp Engineering Pty. Ltd. and many other hemp organizations and initiatives. Catch his full bio below.

As you will hear, Ramon is one of the most passionate hemp leaders bringing together countries and communities into realizing the fullest potential of hemp.

“...in my mind we need to build cities made out of hemp, we need to energize the whole for change from the architects to the engineers..”

“From an engineering perspective I see hemp as a technological grace, because everywhere it grows, everywhere on the planet, every region, everybody with the proper technology could be able to transform the plant into something..”

“To the politicians, let’s change the law. To the people that can bring money to the table, let’s talk. And to the people that can actually help us, let’s rock and roll!”

BIO

Ramon holds a Civil Engineering & Environmental Degree from Florida Institute of Technology, USA, 1985, and has a formal hands-on career development in Planning & Project Controls Engineering and Project Management with over thirty years of experience delivering, EPCM, Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning projects- over $6 Billion projects.

In the last years, Ramon has been working in the Industrial Hemp business. He has founded and co-founded;

Hemp Engineering, Pty Ltd.

Biomass Engineering Pty Ltd and

Green Tigers Journal Pty Ltd.

He is the Advisor Board Member at Global Fiber Solutions, Project Director at The World Hemp Alliance and Former Ambassador for Latin American Industrial Hemp Association to Austral Asia.

He is currently involved with Hemp Home Building, Plastic, Textile, and Batteries projects in Malaysia, Thailand, Puerto Rico, Canada, USA, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, and Australia.

He was part of the team that organised and delivered the first Hemp Summit for Latin Americans in Montevideo, Uruguay in 2019.

During the COVID times, he has organised and successfully launched many online events: From The “Industrial Hemp: The Employment maker” to Hemp Home Expo, USA Hemp Home Expo, Hemp Textile Expo, and Hemp Wellness Expo. He is currently organizing a Summit for Africa, a 2nd summit in Latin America, and a Hemp Packaging Expo.

Ramon has interviewed personalities and CEO’s in the Industry with over 100 hours of recording.

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Learn Hemp Industry insights from top Hemp Leaders and advocates from around the world.  Hosted by Hemp Foundation TALKS with Rebecca Spain.

In Episode 7 we meet Clayton Turner, a hemp scientist and engineer who is stirring things up in the hemp space. Clayton has taken a truly holistic approach to the benefits of the hemp plant via cannabis extraction methods, efficient use of energy systems, carbon capturing, and much more.

In Part 1 we learned more about Clayton and his journey into the hemp space as well as unpacked his brilliant cannabis extraction method.

In Part 2 we cover topics such as hempcrete issues, biochar capabilities, and on demand energy systems that maximize processing efficiency.

In Part 3 Clayton addresses hemp bioplastics, and efforts to reward hemp farmers through carbon credits and the The Hemp Blockchain.

BIO

Clayton Turner is an entrepreneur and scientist in the Cannabis and Hemp space. He is a founder of Rainier Distillers, Washington State Enterprises, Biosmart Research, Hplc Solutions, Search and Rescue Drone.com , Packwhere Electric Vehicle Modules, was Visionary of Santa Fe Farms until this January, and is a co-founder of the Hemp Blockchain.

Clayton has worked for a decade in medical cannabinoid isolation, carbon sequestration, engineering industrial systems, extraction, fiber processing, carbon products, pyrolysis, and blockchain.

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Learn Hemp Industry insights from top Hemp Leaders and advocates from around the world.  Hosted by Hemp Foundation TALKS with Rebecca Spain.

In Episode 7 we meet Clayton Turner, a hemp scientist and engineer who is stirring things up in the hemp space. Clayton has taken a truly holistic approach to the benefits of the hemp plant via cannabis extraction methods, efficient use of energy systems, carbon capturing, and much more.

In Part 1 we learned more about Clayton and his journey into the hemp space as well as unpacked his brilliant cannabis extraction method.

In Part 2 we cover topics such as hempcrete issues, biochar capabilities, and on demand energy systems that maximize processing efficiency.

In Part 3 Clayton addresses hemp bioplastics, and efforts to reward hemp farmers through carbon credits and the The Hemp Blockchain.

BIO

Clayton Turner is an entrepreneur and scientist in the Cannabis and Hemp space. He is a founder of Rainier Distillers, Washington State Enterprises, Biosmart Research, Hplc Solutions, Search and Rescue Drone.com ,  Packwhere Electric Vehicle Modules, was Visionary of Santa Fe Farms until this January, and is a co-founder of the Hemp Blockchain.

Clayton has worked for a decade in medical cannabinoid isolation, carbon sequestration, engineering industrial systems, extraction, fiber processing, carbon products, pyrolysis, and blockchain.

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Learn Hemp Industry insights from top Hemp Leaders and advocates from around the world.  Hosted by Hemp Foundation TALKS with Rebecca Spain.

In Episode 7 we meet Clayton Turner, a hemp scientist and engineer who is stirring things up in the hemp space. Clayton has taken a truly holistic approach to the benefits of the hemp plant via cannabis extraction methods, efficient use of energy systems, carbon capturing, and much more.

In Part 1 we learn more about Clayton and his journey into the hemp space as well as unpack his brilliant cannabis extraction method.

In Part 2 we cover topics such as hempcrete issues, biochar capabilities, and on demand energy systems that maximize processing efficiency.

In Part 3 Clayton addresses hemp bioplastics, and efforts to reward hemp farmers through carbon credits and the The Hemp Blockchain.

BIO

Clayton Turner is an entrepreneur and scientist in the Cannabis and Hemp space. He is a founder of Rainier Distillers, Washington State Enterprises, Biosmart Research, Hplc Solutions, Search and Rescue Drone.com ,  Packwhere Electric Vehicle Modules, was Visionary of Santa Fe Farms until this January, and is a co-founder of the Hemp Blockchain.

Clayton has worked for a decade in medical cannabinoid isolation, carbon sequestration, engineering industrial systems, extraction, fiber processing, carbon products, pyrolysis, and blockchain.

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Learn Hemp Industry insights from top Hemp Leaders and advocates from around the world.  Hosted by Hemp Foundation TALKS with Rebecca Spain.

In today’s episode we travel to the land of the brave and home of the sophisticated rough diamond, Namibia, to speak with Shipepe Heita.

Shipepe gives us insights into the initiatives of Hemp in Namibia and shares his passion to build the people and communities through the healing and economical values of hemp.

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Shipepe is a young entrepreneur and hemp advocate at the age of 28 and has already made such great progress. He has a Bachelor in Commerce in Finance, specializing in Risk Management from the Independent Institute of Education (IIE UK)

He is Co-Chair of Cannabis & Hemp Association of Namibia (CHAN)

Learn Hemp Industry insights from top Hemp Leaders and advocates from around the world.  Hosted by Hemp Foundation TALKS with Rebecca Spain.

In today’s episode we get the pleasure of speaking with Heather Rubiales, Founder of Heather’s Hemp Alternatives. Heather is an environmental activist and pioneer in the hemp bioplastic space.

Heather shares solutions that can overcome plastic pollution with hemp-based biodegradable packaging, with the ability to be backyard compostable.

See Heather’s hemp bioplastic samples up close and learn more about Heather’s Hemp Alternatives future innovations of 100% hemp packaging.

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Heather Rubiales is the visionary behind Heather’s Hemp Alternatives. She has worked closely within the Cannabis industry since 2009, gaining expertise in cultivation and distribution. Heather is a lifetime environmentalist, receiving her Bachelor's Degree in Natural Resources Management. During college was when she dived deep into the industrial Hemp plant and gained knowledge of all of its uses and the potential for great environmental change for our world. She’s especially passionate about tackling plastic pollution and why she created her Hemp bioplastic startup to ignite real change within the Hemp & Cannabis industry surrounding the plastic waste issue.

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Learn Hemp Industry insights from top Hemp Leaders and advocates from around the world.  Hosted by Hemp Foundation TALKS with Rebecca Spain.

Today’s guest speaker is Ianto Morgan Jones, a man with a heart of gold that is leading his community in the education of hemp and its values.

Ianto is passionate about helping people find solutions and alternative ways to heal naturally. He has introduced an award winning skin ointment into the marketplace, utilizing an all plant based formula which includes cannabis sativa seed oil.

Further learn about the hemp challenges in the UK and the ethics we need to keep the hemp industry growing in the right direction.

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Ianto is currently CEO and Founder of Mon Naturals, a family company based in Anglesey, North Wales. Mon Naturals predominantly manufactures and formulates organic skin care products which are clay mineral and plant based with added Cannabis Sativa Seed Oil.

Ianto served in the military, seeing active duty with the British Parachute Regiment. After leaving the Military he pursued a career in Fibre Optics and Telecommunications, working in London at a variety of locations including the Cabinet Office, Whitehall and Admiralty House. Ianto finally came back to Wales to become a mature Student at Bangor University, where he originally studied History and Archaeology then reverted to Science so as to complete a thesis on Eliawen, his family's Ancient Welsh 300yr old Balm and Cortisol. He then facilitated a SMART Expertise Project with the Welsh Government and Bangor University.

Learn Hemp Industry insights from top Hemp Leaders and advocates from around the world.  Hosted by Hemp Foundation TALKS with Rebecca Spain.

In today’s episode we get the pleasure of speaking with Zev Paiss, Chief Operating Officer of Abraham Paiss & Associates, Inc. located in Boulder, Colorado.

Zev brings rich experience of expertise as one of the first U.S. smokable and edible hemp distributors in the nation. He also has been a key leader in building community with his launch of Rocky Mountain Hemp Association which is now National Hemp Association.

Zev is actively involved in accelerating the hemp sector and for the past 10yrs has consulted with many individuals, farmers, and companies trying to get into the hemp space.

Learn industry insights, challenges, and what’s new and emerging from the Fiber and Hurd Council of HIA.

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Zev serves as Chief Operating Officer of Abraham Paiss & Associates, Inc. He has been a sustainability consultant for over 30 years in renewable energy, low carbon transportation, urban agriculture, and intentional communities.

Zev’s involvement with industrial hemp began in late 2012 when he created the Rocky Mountain Hemp Association which expanded its scope to become the National Hemp Association where he served as the Executive Director from 2013 to 2016. In 2017, Zev founded Herb-a-lites, one of the first U.S. smokable and edible hemp distributors in the nation, and worked closely with retail outlets to include Herb-a-lite products on their shelves.

Over the past 10 years, Zev has written extensively to educate about the U.S. supply chain, and given dozens of public presentations at regional and national conferences. In his consulting work, Zev helps connect clients to vetted professionals in the U.S. hemp industry. He also serves as a Subject Matter Expert to farmers, processors, hemp organizations, insurance companies, and law firms needing assistance in representing their clients in legal matters. In 2020, Zev was elected to Chair the Hemp Industries Association Fiber and Hurd Council, a working group to accelerate the development of this sector of the hemp industry. Zev lives in Boulder, CO with his wife and two daughters.

Learn Hemp Industry insights from top Hemp Leaders and advocates from around the world.  Hosted by Hemp Foundation TALKS with Rebecca Spain.

In today’s episode we get the pleasure of speaking with Drew Kitt, a Hempreuner and Certified Ganjier located in Asheville, North Carolina.

Peak into Drew's shop and gain insights from a Certified Ganjier.

Get an overview of Hemp Genetics and upcoming research projects.

Learn about the diversity of Hemp Cannabinoids, Terpenes, Fiber, and Grain.

BIO

Since 2019, Drew Kitt has owned and operated a CBD retail dispensary, Two Moons CBD, located in Asheville, North Carolina. In 2019 Drew also began working with the International Hemp Exchange (iHEMPx), providing hemp genetics for cannabinoids, grain and fiber through his vast network and distribution channels. Drew began his career in the hemp industry in 1996, he has an MBA with a concentration in Sustainability, is a Certified Ganjier, a Brand Ambassador and sits on the Global Hemp Association’s Research Committee. Drew is focused on developing the industrial hemp supply chain from manufacturer to processor to farmer to genetics.