Hemp Building Materials to Be Showcased on D.C.’s National Mall

This article originally appeared in HempBuild Magazine.

By Jean Lotus

Hemp building materials will be featured on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in June as part of the annual Innovative Housing Showcase sponsored by the National Association of Home Builders and HUD. The annual event, scheduled for June 9-11, will present cutting-edge building innovations to the public in an outdoor showcase.

The Innovative Housing Showcase is a three-day event open to the public featuring “new building technologies and housing solutions that are making housing more innovative, resilient, and affordable for American families,” according to HUD. 

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North Carolina Agronomist Sees Big Future for Hemp on the East Coast

David Suchoff, alternative crops extension specialist and assistant professor at North Carolina State University, has been working on growing trials for fiber to rebuild the textile supply chain in the state. He spoke to Let’s Talk Hemp from Raleigh, North Carolina.

How did your career lead you to hemp?

I have a master’s and a Ph.D. from NC State in horticulture, though the crop I worked with was tomatoes. Prior to this job, I had a position in the university’s Department of Crop and Soil Sciences working with organic commodities such as tobacco, sweet potato and various grains. Before that, I served in the Peace Corps in Paraguay for two years as a sustainable farming systems extension agent and did a third year doing similar work in Costa Rica. So I have a mixed bag of experiences all related to agriculture. 

My position at NC State is a new one that was created in 2019 because there was a lot of interest from farmers in alternative row crops, hemp being one of them.

David Suchoff

 

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Register for the 20th EIHA Conference, June 7-9, 2023, Renaissance Hotel, Brussels.

It Takes a Village: A Hempcrete Build Experience & Healing Arts Festival, June 7-11, 2023. Presented by Permatours.org, Digger’s Compost Cooperative, Acton, ME

The Mushroom Summit: Cultivating the Future of Functional Mushrooms, June 19-20, 2023, Colorado Convention Center, Denver. The event is co-located with Psychedelic Science 2023.

Cannabis Research Conference, Presented by Colorado State University Pueblo, Institute of Cannabis Research, Aug. 3-5, 2023, Denver.

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Regenerative Cannabis Live: Reimagining a Regenerative World Through Cannabis & Hemp, Oct. 3, 2023. Hosted at the Delegates Dining Room, United Nations, New York, NY

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Sergiy Kovalenkov, aka Doctor Hemphouse, one of the world’s renowned specialists in building with hemp, is appealing to the hemp industry for help in rebuilding war-torn Ukraine, including building Ukraine’s biggest social housing project to date — a 10,000-square-foot residential building to house refugees and orphans who lost their parents to the war. In particular, the project is seeking builders, sponsors, automated block-making machinery and a hempcrete spraying system. Visit https://www.facebook.com/hempireua/ or contact info@hempire.tech or hempireua@gmail.com.

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