How good is hemp. Grow it and Regenerate Earth.

Earth Matters - Un pódcast de Megan Williams, Bec Horridge, Nicky Stott, Eiddwen Jeffery, Judith Peppard & Jacob Gamble. - Domingos

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What detoxes CO2 out of the air, regenerates the soil, needs little pesticide or water and helps prevent deforestation?Hemp is a strain of Cannabis Sativa that contains only a trace of the psychoactive THC. Numerous products come from hemp including paper, cloth, medicines, food, building materials and animal feed. Yet in Australia we grown little hemp and import these hemp products.Regeneration boffin and soil scientist Walter Jehne with Nimbin Hemp Embassy and Hemp Party campaigners: Caroline Todd and Michael Balderstone outline some of the benefits of growing this age old multi-use plant and how the war against recreational Cannabis has stopped and held back Australian farmers from growing it in Australia to the detriment of the forests, soils and the climate.This weeks show No. 1270 was produced by Bec HorridgeLinks:Regenerate Earth Nimbin Hemp Embassy Hemp PartyAgrifutures Hemp growers surveyMusic:NAIDOC 2019 Redfern March video by Peter Boyle from Green Left.  This weeks show No. 1270 was produced by Bec Horridge