A father’s search to find the healthiest building materials leads him to the completion of the nation’s first hemp house. Hemp with lime is a non-toxic, energy efficient, mildew, fire and pest resistant building material. The drawback — although research is legal in some states, hemp remains off-limits to almost all U.S. farmers. Industrial hemp is a non-psychoactive plant, grown in 31 other countries that makes 1,000?s of sustainable products and offers solutions for global warming, nutrition, poverty and deforestation. Here in the U.S., hemp could be a money-making crop for farmers and create jobs. But why can’t we grow it here? BRINGING IT HOME tells the story of hemp: past, present and future and a global industry that includes textiles, building materials, food products, bio-plastics, auto parts and more.
Filmmaker Statement: We made Bringing It Home with the intention of engaging key audiences – from policy makers and civic groups, to farmers and health advocates, from consumers to the construction industry – with the same strategic message about how hemp offers solutions and hope. With support from the Park Foundation, Bringing It Home is combining grassroots activism with audience engagement to: 1) celebrate industrial hemp’s sustainable and versatile uses; 2) push to legalize industrial hemp farming in the US – both statewide and nationally; 3) activate consumers to use purchasing power in stimulating
“green” economic development in their communities.
Guest Speakers to lead audience discussion
Doug Fine
Author, HEMP BOUND
Doug Fine, fresh back from a half decade of worldwide hemp research, is the author of Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution. The book maps a model for the return of hemp to U.S. soil in a manner that benefits farming communities. Willie Nelson calls it “the best book of the year.” Doug is an investigative journalist, solar-powered goat herder and bestselling author of Farewell, My Subaru and Too High to Fail. Website: dougfine.com Twitter: @organiccowboy you may purchase his books on Amazon, Hemp Bound will be available at screening for $15.00.
Pam Driscoll, Longtime Activist, Member Oregonians for Industrial Hemp
Pam Driscoll has been active in environmental and political groups in Lane County for over 20 years. She co-directed a social justice/environmental news show on public access television in Eugene for 12 years, was an active member of the Pacific Green Party, EarthSave and many other organizations. She has been researching global warming for the last 20 years and is currently a Climate Reality Leader, a member of 350 Eugene, Forest Web and Oregonians for Industrial Hemp. She started the Dexter Lake Farmers’ Market and as co-manager, preparing for it’s seventh season this coming summer.
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