Yep, [email protected] You can contact us and just kind of be part of the solution, because it takes a village to get this thing off the ground. Greg Wilson:Because they were deemed to be essential everywhere, where hotels and restaurants all shut down. It started with friends and family and members of the company.I actually build something new every Sunday out of it. © Copyright 2019. Matt Baum:Right. Why? Matt Baum:Not only your raw materials, but you’re drawing from a pool of education as well that’s right there. Why do you think you’re the only one? There’s no added VOCs here. So if somebody comes and cuts down all my Oak trees, then all of a sudden, I’m going to be hunting from the ground, you don’t get nearly as much. And just kept coming back into the office. And so we have to just keep building, keep moving forward. Greg Wilson:A lot of it is. We got our factory operational in ’19, and we actually had our finished goods ready to launch at NoCo the end of March, and then at the North American Wood Flooring Association at the end of April. And what we do need to do is we need to get everyone per stakeholders to support the product by buying some hemp wood. Greg Wilson:… like you saw out there, that when you try to stack those on a truck, you get about a quarter, maybe 40% less volume on one trip. We’d like to thank our partners at Blue Forest Farms for making this episode possible. Please take the time to research and educate yourself about the risks of using CBD, Hemp and Herbs before consuming. He came up with a way of unrolling it like a roll of toilet paper. Charles welded up these enormous racks for us so we can take it and batch for each block. Whereas if it’s old growth, then it becomes a mature forest and it’s got a whole different ecosystem that’s going on underneath of it, because you get that huge canopy that goes up. Greg Wilson:Exactly. Are they making it funnier? Greg Wilson:Got involved in bamboo flooring and helped figure out how to make bamboo flooring acceptable for commercial use, which was a means of making it harder or densified. But then it has to go into an oven for 10 hours. You can’t use formaldehyde. And so the bio burner then transfers the heat first, because that requires a higher temperature-. Greg Wilson:I had a hell of a wrench into our business plan. It can’t be vinyl that looks like wood. And that actually comes from the soy burning. So you can compress woods and then you typically have to glue them together. Currently, Matt lives in Omaha Nebraska with his wife Kacie and pugs Mable and Bobo. And that’s not a bad thing. It’s him and team of engineers that are creating machines to create hemp wood. 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I got a big saw, send it my way.” And then they said, “Yeah, it’s a losing money operation [crosstalk 00:31:18] that stuff.”. Matt Baum:It lasts longer, better when it gets wet, I assume. The link provides additional information that may be useful or interesting and has no affiliation to the promotion, sale and distribution of Hemp-Alternative products. Floors Hemp fibres could prove a resilient alternative to materials currently used for textiles, such as carpets. And so, the strand woven Eucalyptus then were me and Jimmy Song, and that’s how we met Dario. Machine washable and reusable. On top of challenges with finding quality seed, high labor costs, pest management, and complying with the DEA’s 0.3% THC cap, they also had to contend with a weak infrastructure. And we pay a living wage to everyone here at the factory where you work here full-time you can buy a single family home in town. Matt Baum:Right on. And that way it keeps it spaced out, but we can dunk it into the glue. And so now, it came back to us, we got to cut the wood into the usable sizes for the manufacturers. It’s a choice you have to make. But everybody that tours the factory, we now figured out where you end the tour in the wood shop and we say, “And here’s picture frames for sale.”. It comes in and it gets stuck on this machine that we had to invent. Matt Baum:Good Lord. But the cost, if you go outside of 60 miles, then you’re only able to run two trucks a day. And then they have to rest for a couple of weeks to stabilize. It’s insane. Hemp cultivation is becoming more widespread, and as more hemp is grown, hemp could likely become a useful resource. Greg Wilson:Correct. We’re paying all our guys fair.” Where are we live at, it’s inexpensive. Greg Wilson:And the smoke is actually… It’s cleaner smoke. Matt Baum:You always end in the gift shop. We only get like 200 bushels an acre of corn, whereas if you go to Iowa, you get 250. It is the best way to support Ministry of Hemp. Matt Baum:Okay. And then we can turn it into flooring, and furniture, and picture frames, and cutting boards, and what we call home goods and [crosstalk 00:32:01] woods, there’s cabinetry and stuff like that. When you go to a box shop and you get your flooring at Lowe’s or Home Depot, and they’re like, “Oh, hey, solid Oak flooring,” is typically red Oak. We had to try all the different cuttings as [inaudible 00:28:37] didn’t work, and all these different ways of trying to harvest it, ended up with like 150 tons of hemp. I mean, same with your grass clippings even, you know? And so the number one reason that cabinetry makers, which are typically still made in the US, were not accepting of the product is because we didn’t offer plywood that had the face on it to do the skins on the side so it looks like it’s all hemp wood. And so cannabis companies started buying hemp to build up their shops. Why would you want to try to get around people who know how to work with wood? So higher density causes lower flammability, as well as being a composite because it has a glue based out of that soy. Your email address will not be published. Greg Wilson:Absolutely. Matt Baum:That seems like two steps back to me if you’re going for something a little more ecologically friendly, right? Greg Wilson:A lot of my news feed turned into mask salesmen and gloves salesmen during COVID. That’ll be up for our Patreon Ministry of Hemp Insiders. So yeah, COVID threw everything [inaudible 00:46:57], and we’re still turned upside down. We got the guts, the radiators, the heat transfers out of there too. Greg Wilson:And then we have a saw, we just got our new saw in. Matt Baum has been hosting, producing, and editing podcasts for almost ten years. So then we set up a [inaudible 00:04:48] called strand woven eucalyptus, and it’s still… Every Lowe’s in the United States still buy that stuff. I live on a farm. That’s about it for this episode of the Ministry of Hemp podcast. The driving force behind Planet Based Foods’ new meat alternative was the desire “to bring a product to market that represented the times we’re living in and the necessities of creating a plant-based product that addressed sustainability, as well as flavor and texture,” Davis said in an interview with HEMP Magazine. Also, there are a lot of technical advantages of using hemp as an alternative, notes the National Hemp Association: it can run in any unmodified diesel engine, it is safe to handle and store, and is “the only alternative fuel in the US to complete EPA Tier I Health Effects Testing under section 211 (b) of the Clean Air Act, which provides the thorough inventory of environmental and human health effects … And my conversation today with Gregory is all about hemp wood, how it works, how it is creating jobs for people right here in America and its future in American carpentry. And if it’s done properly, having a wood floor or wood furniture that’s sustainably harvested, or is made here in the United States is always going to be the dominant player. Greg Wilson:Exactly. Matt Baum:So this is so dense that you can’t just use a wood saw on it? You burn the ground up waste hemp that we have here, grind it, burn it. Greg Wilson:And then we turned it into an algorithm and then PAT and the standard operating procedure and ended up spending 14 years building bamboo factories. Greg Wilson:And then you also have the population that grew up in the ’60s that are on to their forever home, and that are looking for nice things rather than the cheap vinyl or cheap tile that goes into their place. And right now it’s not being done responsibly everywhere. And John stuck with it and he went home for like a week and then said he couldn’t deal with that anymore. That’s what I’m thinking in my head, sort of picture it. And he showed me what they’ve got going on. And so our old baker resaw, now we’ve turned it into a fully automated, like 50 foot long saw, where it cuts the edge-. 1 review of The hemp alternative "So in all fairness I am not familiar with CBD. Greg Wilson:… figuring out various ways… Yeah. Plastic. But before we get into that, I want to say thanks to our partner, Blue Forest Farms. Oh my god. Greg Wilson:Here’s the problem, people involved in that don’t usually buy higher end home goods. Is this the future of wood? Greg Wilson:Dario came up with the concept of unrolling a bale of hemp because it has to get picked up. And actually, the powers behind the scene, kind of the wizard from the Wizard of Oz, is Dario Dumont. Because a lot of what it is, you can buy anything for a buck. Matt Baum:So what do these guys think about you? But then converting to actual sales on large scale build out, everyone wants to kind of see how it works and what it does and what’s happening. There’s nothing wrong with wood. Matt Baum:It sounds like you built this around this monolithic monster machine basically. And so our flooring right here, in order for people to be able to use it easily, and for us to be able to make enough of it, we lay it up on plywood, but we find eco-friendly plywood that uses the same glues that we use. Greg Wilson:But on a federal level, crickets. God, I’m sorry, man. And the maillard effect is like one thing we talked about when you’re searing proteins, the same thing. But have you ever seen how wheat sun-dries? Greg Wilson:Exactly. If you dig this show and you like what we do on the site, then do us a favor and become a Ministry of Hemp Patreon Insider. Hemp, or industrial hemp, is a variety of the Cannabis sativa plant species that is grown specifically for industrial use. Greg Wilson:Correct. Okay. So when it’s getting rolled, it rolls it that way like a fruit roll-up, now it rolls it backwards. Greg Wilson:So what we produce per acre of hemp that we get can replace about 30 Oak trees that are 60 years old-ish. Below you’ll find the complete transcript of episode 60 of the Ministry of Hemp podcast, “Hemp Wood Alternatives”: Matt Baum: And it seems like these days, no matter where you go, some sort of catastrophe or problem or whatever… I own a piece of a company called Smart Oak in Tasmania, where we do just that, and it burned down. And so we put these up with hand sanitizers everywhere and getting employees at the time is hard. So we use the same fluid that you use for solar panels called glycol. Greg Wilson:And actually the company does a lot more vinyl flooring now, which doesn’t fit the eco-friendly perspective we’ve been trying to do [crosstalk 00:05:20]. Oh, and make good decisions to, will you? But I set up a nanotech lab there that would take technologies we’ve developed in the laboratory, and then try to commercialize them in China where I was at. Greg Wilson:If you want to buy something made in America, expect a 20% premium. The kenaf plant may be little known to many people in Western countries, but has been around for thousands of years in ancient cultures of the world. Homestead Alternatives was founded by the same Laura that founded Laura's Lean Beef in 1985. Greg Wilson:I mean, that’s what it all comes down to. But I can say that that’s where people are already accepting. Greg Wilson:… [crosstalk 00:22:41] out west with one of the Oregon schools. This is Matt Baum with the Ministry of Hemp, signing off. Because our big thing is, if somebody buys hemp wood from us and make something out of it, the trademark of, “Hey, this is a HempWood product,” goes right along with it. Greg Wilson:So we’re trying to replace those. Matt Baum:Gregory spoke to me from his plant in Murray, Kentucky, he’s out there in the middle of nowhere. Like it’s not blown away. If you like what your hear leave us a review or star rating. Matt Baum:So, how do you apply this algorithm going from things like bamboo, to Eucalyptus, to scrap wood? Greg Wilson:So it performs like a tropical hardwood, it has… stability is greater than Oak, harder than hickory, density of Brazilian cherry. Greg Wilson:Nope. Greg Wilson:Red Oak doesn’t work as well. And it’s not an easy choice, because making a buck ain’t easy. Good Alternatives CBD Oil. We had an amazing talk and it went on for much longer than this. So it’s literally just space? Why not just say, “Here’s a new product, play around with it? Greg Wilson:Yeah, keep the publicity going, because we’re literally in the middle of a field. We have to come up with a means of cutting it properly because our regular wood saws weren’t strong enough. Greg Wilson:Anyway, so getting back into it, again, we weigh it out, we batch it. Discover our past events and features, as well as where you can get involved with Hemp-Alternative in the future. Matt Baum:When it comes to making wood, how many acres of forest are we cutting down to… I don’t even know the terms to use here, to make X amount of wood versus acres of hemp to make X amount of wood? Or does it just end up looking like wood? Greg Wilson:Yes, it is less flammable than your traditional woods, especially your softwoods. COVID turned all that upside down. Are you using local stuff? Well you have to use existing equipment, which is used for bailing hay, then now use it for bailing hemp and modify it a little bit. And we’re the only scaled fiber manufacturer of hemp in the United States, and the only hemp-building materials manufacturer in the United States. Greg Wilson:But if you want to get that warm wood feeling in your house, it has to be wood. 3 talking about this. Greg Wilson:Kentucky is known for horses, because if you get a little bit farther west and a little bit farther north, then you’re in better soil and better climate for growing your row crops. And it’s been a dog’s breakfast with trying to scrape that back. But that’s the right thing to do. So it’s less than 15% moisture content. We’ve taken a whole bunch of agricultural equipment from the cotton industry, the tobacco industry, the bamboo industry, you name it. Greg Wilson:From a couple of thousand dollars worth of dumping fees we would had… In reality, we were just throwing it out in the field. But the maillard effect is like the browning of gravy. I mean, I’m not a carbon nerd or anything. And so all the corners that you can cut, not making it here in the United States, or using dirty glues or chemicals or whatever coatings and stuff on it, make it cheaper, and make it a heck of a lot more commercially viable. It’s debatable how many trees grow on an acre. And so if someone’s doing hardwood trade out of Africa, they’re probably not going into it saying, “Hey, I want to do this the wrong way to become overly wealthy.” They’re probably saying, “My customer gave me this order and it has to fit their budget. Greg Wilson:Trademark the word HempWood, trademark the logo. We’re stuck with the plan of continuing to build out and automate the facility while we let the whole market… What we can’t control will work its way out. Is it done? Maybe not from where they hide in it, but your nut trees and your… Like your walnuts and your acorns and different things like that, that take a lot longer to grow than your traditional trees that come up first or your poplars and your pines.And your poplars and pines, 20 years, that’s a mature tree, maybe 40 years. As the consumer, it is your responsibility to know your local, state and federal laws before making any purchases. So then we had to go and get a frickin hundred thousand dollars saw. Literally like a bale of hay. Just in time to move to Kentucky to start HempWood six months later. Greg Wilson:So that process I just explained is a two-day process. So if you see hemp wood being manufactured anywhere in the world, it’s us. Matt Baum:That’s where I was, like, “Oh, man, he’s trying to take our wood job.” I’m like, “Take out the wood jobs. We offer five hemp plastic alternatives which are available now. Matt Baum:They have different priorities. So here’s the edge of row crops. And it’s still sitting at the university farm. So you can be like, “Me, I did.”. Matt Baum:Oh, that’s him? That’s the rule, you always end in the gift shop. And that’s how you see an old growth forest come about. The only thing I know to do is just trust our team to keep working. Hemp-Alternative does not sell or distribute any products that are in violation of the United States Controlled Substance Act (US.CSA). I love that answer. And then it transfers that heat to our ovens and dryers. Because I was just doing lab scale, it looked like a stalk, a piece of bamboo. Greg Wilson:So then the wood is cut, and then we put into our balancing rooms, which once again, draw the heat from our bio burner to keep them at a certain temperature, and a dehumidifier in there. And so I ended up in Poland and the Ukraine and Tasmania-. It is likely the first plant cultivated by humans for the use of textiles (Bengtsson, 2009).Hemp can also grow up to 0.31 m in a week, making it a desirable plant for production due to its fast-growing qualities (Oliver, 1999). Greg Wilson:And then a round bale is a round bale around-. Is it just what you do to it you end up like that or are you adding something to it or taking something out of it to get it to look like wood? And people that worked on a farm factory works easy for them. I figured it out in 2010, we used to call it weed wood. Our Hemp-Alternative team is driven to Support the positive and lasting impact of hemp on the farming community Explore the bioremediation benefits of the plant to heal the earth Understand and develop fiber-based sustainable products Investigate seed and grain opportunities Advocate for cannabinoid research as it pertains to health With over 15 years of consulting experience, Cynthia Petrone-Hudock, CEO has now worked with Cannabis companies for over 3 years assisting with strategic plans, go-to-market tactics and operational execution by focusing on people, process and technology. Hemplyne hemp plastic is completely biodegradable and recyclable when it is made with a biodegradable polymer. Matt Baum:You can say. Greg Wilson:Right, blows the hot air across the molds and bakes them and then recirculates it back to our dryers, which then throws the secondary heat. Matt Baum:So you’re using your own hot air to dry… from a different machine to dry out the hemp as well. Greg Wilson:My name is Greg Wilson. I mean, I work with wood. Tell me how it sands. By the way, if you use the code ‘MINISTRY’ at checkout right now, you’ll get 20% off your first purchase just for listening to the show. Below you’ll find the complete transcript of episode 60 of the Ministry of Hemp podcast, “Hemp Wood Alternatives”: Matt Baum:I’m Matt Baum, and this is the Ministry of Hemp podcast brought to you by ministryofhemp.com, America’s leading advocate for hemp and hemp education.Welcome back. And so usually you have that cycle where the fast-growing ones get up first, and then your slower growing ones come up, but they eventually overtake your poplars and your pines. These are suitable for injection mold, roll sheet and thermoform applications. It was a pole. So when we were going to get married and moved to the States, I had to buy a house. And so it turned into a hundred thousand dollar remodel with taking down walls and the new kitchen and bathrooms. Hemp is considered one of the most environmentally friendly commercial crops with thousands of uses, such as textiles, food, building materials and fuel. I mean, that looks like wood, what you’re showing me. Greg Wilson:It was wildfires [crosstalk 00:06:27]. But it’s a lot more profitable to do it the wrong way. Send us your hemp questions and you might hear them answered on one of our Hemp Q&A episodes. Greg Wilson:We’ve been around for a couple of years now. And so it can actually heat the water to the temperature that we need because it only needs to be 100 degrees instead of 250. So you densify woods by either impregnating them with something, some sort of polymers or plastics, or different elements like that, or you compress them. We also picked Blue Forest Farms Broad Spectrum Gummies as one of our top brands of CBD gummies. Is it stronger? This article details ten reasons why hemp is a sustainable wonder crop. And I think-. So you went from bamboo to hemp? 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