Hempitecture | Tommy Gibbons | Ketchum, Idaho

Happy to talk about any Hemp building topics or direction the conversation goes.I call my listeners Green Future Growers. I had a guest on the east side of Montana, and one of the things he talked about the importance of having a market ahead of time. And then my husband and I have always been interested in building a hemp house, or straw bale house but hempcrete would be even better.Yeah it totally would and it's exciting all the different applications of hemp being used across the United States. For that eastern Montana farmer what he said was spot on.You gotta have an idea of where the plants are gonna end up and who is going to buy it and using it for what purpose before you even start farming.Mike said you have to interview these guys and here is Tommy Gibbons to talk to us today from Hempitecture! Part of me feels like I have been waiting for this for so long, I thought this would pass back in the 1990's and I talked to Tara Caton last year at the Rodale Institute and I was like what is going on in our country finally?Tell us a little about yourself.There’s so much to tell about our businesspeople in the 90s who have been fighting this battle, it's been an accumulative effort and truly the future is ahead of us and that’s what we look towardsWe are HempitectureKetchum Idahosun valley ski resort2014built the first commercial hemp concretewe make building with hemp easyconsult on different projectstrain people how to build with materialssell building materialssellcome to your job site and professionally install your hemp insulation productsJust hempcrete and hemp wool now but who knows where it's gonna go!woolreally exciting!Maybe it was 2014. I remember going to this business thing. Our Senator Jon Tester, is actually one of those Eastern Montana farmers. He wanted to pass a hemp bill, but he said the problem was the police not being able to tell the difference between a hemp plant and a cannabis plant and I thought that was lame because for me, I always think that any cannabis farmer is not going to let any hemp seeds near their cannabis so they are going to regulate it themselves in a way. But that is sort of off topic.common interest incultivate growYoure just allowed to transportpeople didn’t feel they could tell the difference between marijuana flower passing through the state and hemp flowers. differencethreshold 05THC send out for testingIdaho police didn’t feel like they should pay, or didn't have the sources in placeultimatelyThere is all this confusion about what is hemp and what is marijuana, but does come down to the THC content.The hemp we use for building that looks nothing like smokable0% THC contentstems or fibersSo we don’t bump too much into that problem, luckily now things are legal, the cultivation and transportation is legalrecentlyin some states the battle persists and it was very important if it was So where do you get your hemp then from local people in Idaho?No we don't. They are still not growing in Idaho.our current supplier s out of quebecWe've had suppliers more local likekentucky in the USuntil this yearmore growersand need to processorsinner core, needs to be chopped up,...