Hemp growers & fiber stewards

Printed hemp-cultivation guidance in the Pennsylvania Gazette and built his publishing trade on rag paper stock heavy in hemp and linen.

Printer, inventor, and civic organizer in Philadelphia.

Grew hemp at Monticello and recorded it in farm books. Wrote that a hemp patch is “abundantly productive” and described separating fiber stalks from seed-bearing plants.

Monticello planter and agricultural experimenter.

Raised hemp at Montpelier for fiber alongside tobacco and grain — a standard Virginia rotation crop for rope and bagging between tobacco harvests.

Montpelier planter and constitutional draftsman.

Retired to a Shenandoah Valley farm near Winchester; Virginia fiber-hemp culture supplied rope and bagging for local mills and merchants.

Valley farmer after public service.

Returned to New Hampshire farming in a colony where households grew hemp and flax for homespun, rope, and barter alongside food.

New Hampshire farmer and state leader.

Farmed at Highland near Charlottesville; estate ledgers list hemp among Piedmont cash-and-craft crops that paid overseers and tradesmen.

Highland planter and diplomat.

After public service, farmed at Mulberry Grove, Georgia; estates used hemp and flax fiber for bagging, rope, and household goods between cash-crop seasons.

Coastal Georgia planter.

As governor, proposed trading Virginia hemp with the Spanish crown to fund supplies without depending on British cordage.

Virginia governor and orator.

Settled on a Virginia farm after public service; Piedmont fiber-hemp and flax still supplied rope, sack cloth, and barter income for smallholders.

Piedmont smallholder.

Raised on a Massachusetts farm in a household economy where hemp and flax were spun into homespun; after public service, farmed and lectured on livelihood.

Massachusetts farmer and speaker.

Returned to Connecticut farming where hemp and flax were standard field crops for rope, linen, and market barter alongside livestock.

Connecticut farmer.

Vermont frontier farms relied on hemp and flax fiber for rope, sacks, and homespun while clearing land and trading across the Green Mountains.

Green Mountain settler and farmer.

Planter and farmer on the Pee Dee; Lowcountry ledgers used hemp and flax bagging between indigo and rice seasons for rope and sack income.

Pee Dee planter.

Boonesborough and Kentucky settlement sat in the fiber-hemp belt that later fed Clay’s “hemp state” — rope and bales for river trade.

Kentucky frontiersman and surveyor.

Farmed at Poplar Hall on the Delaware peninsula; Mid-Atlantic hemp-and-flax culture supplied cordage and homespun for market and household ledgers.

Delaware peninsula farmer.

Ran Braintree and Peacefield farms where New England households spun hemp and flax into rope and homespun alongside food crops.

Braintree and Peacefield farmer; diplomat and president.

Grew hemp at Ashland and made Kentucky “the hemp state” a national issue — Ohio River bales paid freight, mortgages, and warehouse wages.

Ashland planter and U.S. speaker of the House.

Roanoke planter who defended Virginia hemp growers in Congress against cheap imported fiber — farm livelihood tied to national self-sufficiency.

Roanoke planter and U.S. representative.

Poet and philosopher whose voice linked land recovery, treaty rights, and hemp as part of a moral frame for growers — not a field agronomist, but a teacher of the movement.

Santee Dakota, 1946–2015.

Planted fiber hemp on treaty land and built a tribally driven hemp economy despite federal crop seizures — a lesson in seed sovereignty and local processing.

Oglala Lakota farmer and community leader.

Founded Winona’s Hemp & Heritage Farm and the Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute — training institute for foods and hemp, youth farmer mentorship, and hemp textile research (Patagonia tool bag, 2023). Organizes the Indigenous Hemp & Cannabis Farmers Cooperative and Indigenous Hemp Conference.

Cooperative economics and field teaching.

Executive director of the Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute — teaches on-the-ground hemp planting, harvest with tribal equipment, and fiber scale on reservation land.

Field operations and combine harvest lessons.

Grows large-acreage fiber hemp on the Lake Traverse Reservation and teaches cooperative ownership of decortication and canvas-scale processing.

Northern-plains cooperative processing.

Partnered with Upland Grassroots to grow hemp on former military land — documented PFAS uptake in soil, teaching hemp as phytoremediation on nation-owned contaminated parcels.

Land healing and Superfund remediation trials.

Approached Mi’kmaq partners about hemp for PFAS cleanup and documented field protocols (protective gear, watering trials, repeat plantings) — bridge between western science and land stewardship.

Bioremediation education and hazmat-field protocols.

Executive director of Ziibimijwang Farm — leads tribal hemp variety trials through Michigan’s Hemp TRIM project, linking research to food-sovereignty and economic development goals.

USDA variety trials and farm leadership.

Built what is cited as the first hempcrete home on Lower Sioux land (2023, ~1,500 sq ft) — hands-on model for tribal housing, carbon-aware building, and local hemp-lime slurry methods.

Tribal construction and hempcrete teaching.