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 business

people 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 towards

We are Hempitecture

Ketchum Idaho

sun valley ski resort

2014

built the first commercial hemp concrete

we make building with hemp easy

• consult on different projects
• train people how to build with materials
• sell building materials
• sell
• come to your job site and professionally install your hemp insulation products

Just hempcrete and hemp wool now but who knows where it's gonna go!

wool

really 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 in

cultivate grow

Youre just allowed to transport

people didn’t feel they could tell the difference between marijuana flower passing through the state and hemp flowers.

difference

threshold 05

THC

send out for testing

Idaho police didn’t feel like they should pay, or didn't have the sources in place

ultimately

There 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 smokable

0% THC content

stems or fibers

So we don’t bump too much into that problem, luckily now things are legal, the cultivation and transportation is legal

recently

in 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 quebec

We've had suppliers more local like

kentucky in the US

until this year

more growers

and need to processors

inner core, needs to be chopped up,...