AMERICAN HEMP FARMER Premiering on PBS
Doug Fine’s American Hemp Farmer Film is here! Available everywhere at: https://www.pbs.org/show/american-hemp-farmer/
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AMERICAN HEMP FARMER Wins!
Doug Fine’s Debut Feature Film, AMERICAN HEMP FARMER, wins Best New Mexico Feature Documentary at the 24th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival
Film Premiere: AMERICAN HEMP FARMER
Doug Fine’s Debut Feature Film, AMERICAN HEMP FARMER, premieres at the 24th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival, and You’re Invited I feel so lucky that the "work” side of my life continues to evolve into new media. Coming in from some chicken wrangling and hummingbird dodging this morning, I got the thrilling news that my first feature film, AMERICAN HEMP FARMER, has its World Premiere date at the 24th…
A New Regenerative Hemp Course, Soil Cleanup In the High Desert, and Funky Butte Ranch Terpenes
Funky Butte Ranch 9.08.20 A Grower’s Guide to Regenerative Hemp: From Soil to Seed to Sales — Register For Doug’s Hemp Course The seeds are fattening with Omegas by the day here on the Funky Butte Ranch, which bodes well for nutrient-dense winter superfood for my human and non-human family. I like the feeling of knowing we are at least taking steps to dial in our survival. On the ground we feel…
You Did It! AMERICAN HEMP FARMER</em#x3E; Is Soaring
I’m walking on air, for the usual reasons (it’s hemp planting season). And for special reasons: a heartfelt thank you to everyone who helped American Hemp Farmer launch so successfully last week — even though I and my publisher almost exclusively shouted out independent bookstore links for the book, ebook and audiobook , American Hemp Farmer launched as Amazon’s #1 new release in Agriculture, and…
Got Your Copy of The Funniest And Most Important Book of 2020?
A hummingbird was my alarm clock this morning, and this is part of my health maintenance plan. I gave special thanks upon waking today for the blessing of working to maintain health, rather than fix it. Long, healthy life. If that’s part of your family’s game plan, I’ve got something for you to read.
Superfood Security is a Seed Away: Doug Fine's AMERICAN HEMP FARMER is here.
As are many of us, I’m feeling grateful for a lot of things at the moment. In particular, I’m sure glad it struck the three-years-ago-version-of-me as a fun idea to write an optimistic, humorous book that also provides a blueprint for establishing food security in your backyard
The Bear Attack That Made Me A Hemp Farmer
Six years ago, a bear fleeing a wildfire in our New Mexico backyard killed nearly all of my family’s goats in front of our eyes. It wasn’t the bear’s fault: he was a climate refugee. It was June of 2013, and drought had weakened the ponderosa pines and Douglas fir surrounding our remote Funky Butte Ranch. Beetles took advantage, and all of southern New Mexico was a tinderbox. Ho hum, just another…
True Homeowners Insurance
Just before equinox in 2011, I wrote the Dispatch From the Funky Butte Ranch that follows with tongue, I thought, pretty solidly in cheek. I mean, it was ripped from the personal headlines. I really had been denied homeowner’s insurance for like the fourth time in as many months, but mostly I was just joking around about the insane illusion of “insurance” in an vast, multi-dimensional universe.
Hemp Ninja Training
When you go from consumer to producer (of anything), your units of measure change. I spent much of the past three years investigating the reemergence of hemp agriculture from Oregon to Slovenia. But in 2016, I became a hemp farmer too. Which meant my shopping list grew from sixteen ounce bottles of Nutiva hemp seed oil to rodent-proof storage bins for two tons of hemp seeds.
Hemptsy Is Open For Business
It was when I saw the first hemp lingerie on the site that I knew, finally, that this Hemptsy dream had become reality.
Calling All Artisans
Here’s the deal: Hemp commerce is exploding. Cultivated acreage is increasing tenfold in the U.S. for the third straight year, and the worldwide hemp boom is on. This is, of course, wonderful, a sooner-than-expected realization of the blueprint put forth in Hemp Bound.
We Won. Now Every Decision Comes Down to Climate
This Dispatch comes in the form of the guest column I was asked to write for the European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies (ENCOD)’s summer newsletter. This venerable and august group comprises the folks from twenty-three countries who brought me across the Pond last year to deliver a United Nations address we had collaboratively crafted.
Seven Hemp Farms. Two Continents. One Revived Industry
First Legal Hemp Harvest Update American Hemp Is On Its Way to Your Car Battery And Your Bookstore The first digital age domestic hemp crop is being harvested as I write. The subtle decrease in seismic activity currently puzzling Virginia geologists can be traced to Thomas Jefferson ceasing to spin in his grave for the first time in 77 years….
HEMP BOUND Live
Thomas Jefferson’s Favorite Crop Is Back in American Soil — Today Read All About It “Hemp Bound is the best book of the year…Doug Fine has created a blueprint for the America of the future.” –Willie Nelson Since Hemp Bound was published just three weeks ago, four more states have legalized hemp cultivation. And not just those you might call…
The Great Hemp Head Scratcher
AMERICAN HEMP SEEDS ARE GROWING, BUT… Nothing like holding the Dutch hemp fiber that goes into Mercedes door panels (fresh off the factory floor, [above], they were silky soft yet stronger than steel) to make an investigative-minded fellow not just smile goofily but also wonder, “Why is the DEA seizing the seeds that will allow the U.S. to catch up with the rest of the world’s billion-dollar hemp…
Wait. Hemp is Legal?
Thomas Jefferson’s Favorite Crop Is Back in American Soil — Today Read All About It “Hemp Bound is the best book of the year…Doug Fine has created a blueprint for the America of the future.” –Willie Nelson Since Hemp Bound was published just three weeks ago, four more states have legalized hemp cultivation. And not just those you might call…
Hemp Returns To Humanity
I’m writing these words ten minutes after President Obama has legalized hemp. (If you’re not yet among the throngs pausing for collective pinching of self and recitation of, “God Bless America,” you will be, pretty soon.) He did this by signing the 2014 Farm Bill, which included a tucked-in bi-partisan amendment that allows university research of the crop. I’m happy…
The Doug Fine TEDxTalk: The Return of the Indigenous Gene
I’m probably one of only a handful of TED fans (let alone speakers) who has slept outside with his goats to protect them from coyotes like some kind of crunchy Elmer Fudd. And that in fact is the theme of my recent TEDxABQ talk, The Return of the Indigenous Gene: Why We Need Goatherding in the Digital Age. I was…
The Drug War’s Berlin Wall Is Down And So Is My Local Forest: Here’s The Connection
I’m on my yucca-framed porch swing sipping an organic Orange Julius and watching an 8,500-acre wildfire creep towards me here on the Funky Butte Ranch. Shrug. Just more climate change era chaos. I can smell and in fact feel the heat from the blaze already. Its light ash snowfall accumulating on my napping dog rather powerfully conveys the message…