Apr 20, 2024
On this 420 Bonus show, we share an episode of one of our favorite podcasts, Rumble Strip. It’s made by Erica Heilman who tells stories of rural Vermont.
On this episode she interviews Vermonter John Rodgers, a stonemason the Northeast Kingdom, where he also runs a construction business, plows driveways and rents...
Apr 17, 2024
This week’s hemp podcast is a recap of the 10th annual NoCo Hemp Expo in Estes Park, Colorado, April 11-13, where industry stakeholders gathered to collaborate, commiserate and celebrate the state of hemp in 2024.
The episode features voices from many attendees, including Colorado Gov. Jared Polis.
“We’re really...
Apr 10, 2024
On this week’s hemp podcast, Lancaster Farming talks to Steve Groff from Cedar Meadow Farm in Holtwood, Lancaster County, where he is getting ready to plant 70 acres of industrial hemp.
“This year it’s all fiber. And we’ll probably plant about 10 varieties,” Groff said.
Of those 10, about a third will be what...
Apr 5, 2024
On this bonus episode we talk to Andrew Bish and Morgan Tweet from the Hemp Feed Coalition, the advocacy group that has been working for four years to get hemp grain approved as a livestock feed.
Opening up the feed markets is the one of the most important issues in the hemp industry today. Hemp grain was given...
Apr 3, 2024
In this week’s hemp podcast, Lancaster Farming speaks with Ken Meyer, beekeeper and hemp processor from South Dakota.
Meyer and his family run a fourth-generation beekeeping business as well as the state’s first industrial hemp processing facility.
As a young man, Meyer enjoyed beekeeping but was encouraged by his...