Hemp field in morning light

Part II: What We Wear and Grow

Putting the foundations into material form. The fibers against our skin, and the plant that could clothe, house, and feed communities while pulling carbon from the air.

The essays

No. 3
How Natural Fiber Clothing Improves Your Health
Why what you wear matters more than you think.
No. 4
Hemp Is Not a Drug. It Is a Climate Solution.
What ancient civilizations knew, and what scientists and farmers are rediscovering now.

A question to sit with

Every culture carries a story about what the earth is for. Most of us were never told ours out loud. We absorbed it.

Look at what you are wearing right now. Think about what you ate today.

If a stranger read only those choices, what story would they say you believe about who the earth belongs to?

Write your answer in the comments below and see how others answered. Prefer to keep it between us? Send me a private reflection.

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