Closing the Loop from Farm to Site with Hemp

Join us for an open house and roundtable event to explore the economic and ecological opportunities in farming, processing, advanced manufacturing and designing with hemp as a building material.

Hemp offers enormous potential as a building material. It sequesters high amounts of carbon when growing, and requires limited water, fertilizer and pesticides. When used as a building material together with lime and water, it creates non-toxic, breathable, non-flammable walls.

The event will begin with an Open House of two recently completed homes at Wally Farms, where hemplime was used as its primary wall material, followed by a Roundtable to discuss the opportunities and bottlenecks to locally grown, manufactured and installed hemp lime construction.

The conversation is intended to be inclusive of the audience and will be introduced and moderated by:

Kaja Kühl,

Designer of the Hemp Homes at Wally Farms and Associate Professor of Architecture at City College New York

Tom Rossmassler

Chief Embodied Officer at Hempstone, LLC, Hemp contractor of the Hemp Homes at Wally Farms

Jonsara Ruth

Design Director and Co-Founder, Healthy Materials Lab at Parsons School of Design

Travis Samuels,

Chief Operating Officer, Zion Growers