Eighth Fire Project: We are lighting the fire. Kind economy of the green path to Hemp.
Mark your calendars and join us on March 1-2nd, 2022 for the 5th Annual Indigenous Hemp Conference hosted by Winona’s Hemp & Heritage Farm, and Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute.
Boozhoo! Hello and Welcome! We would like to invite Indigenous farmers, tribal college students, and others to our first online hemp class.
Introduction to hemp will provide students with an overview of the plant, from the seed to clothing, housing, and food.
The fully online class includes instructors from the fields, to the universities and businesses and is intended to provide background materials for better decision making and to link farmers to seeds as well as regulations.
Hemp has a long, global history, and even though the United States Government has outlawed its growth and production since the 1950s, it has recently begun to make a comeback within the United States. This is a course about the potential of hemp, and how Indigenous farmers and nations are embracing this new economy.
Meeting weekly for ten weeks, the class will inform students, and allow for dialogue on the opportunity for Cannabis Sativa can transform our materials economy, our textiles economy, return carbon to the soil, be a central material in sustainable housing, provide health and well-being, and be a path to restorative justice.
Featuring guest speakers and links to materials, the class will provide an opportunity to better understand present hemp regulations and additional regulations for tribal producers nationally as well, since hemp policies are emerging at many levels this is an excellent opportunity to review equitable hemp and cannabis policies.
Course Format:
This course is offered fully online. Course materials, including assigned reading and videos, are offered on Google Classroom.
The class will start on February 15 and run until April 27. It will be on Tuesday afternoons from 4pm-6pm CST over Zoom.
Class periods consist of lectures, discussions, and videos. Work outside of class involves weekly reading, written assignments, and discussion posts.
Online Class and Curriculum: Hemp The New Green Revolution Hemp 101
Concepts: Overview of the History of Hemp uses, Industrial hemp, cannabis prohibition, the current status of cannabis legalization and cannabis use in the U.S. and across Indian country.
What we know as Hemp, (Cannabis Sativa, Indica) was first written about in Indochina almost five thousand years ago (2800 BCE) and plant material has been found that is believed to be almost 8000 years old. Proving useful as a medicine as well as giving strong long fibers from the stalks the plant was useful, cultivated, and seeds were shared and traveled and were exchanged. Knowledge and writing of hemp cultivation have all but disappeared due to criminalization. This is a brief history of the cold case of the hemp industry, and one entrepreneur’s experiences looking for clues to the hemp industry’s path to rebuild that industry now.
Course Format:
This course is offered fully online. Course materials, including assigned reading and videos, are offered on Google Classroom.
The class will start on February 15 and run until April 27. It will be on Tuesday afternoons from 4pm-6pm CST over Zoom.
Class periods consist of lectures, discussions, and videos. Work outside of class involves weekly reading, written assignments, and discussion posts.
May 22, 2021: Winona's Hemp farm Near Osage Minnesota. We are hosting a farm day and will have demonstrations of hempcrete plaster, hemp brick making and hemp paper making.
Special Co Host- Alex White Plume, from White Plume Hemp.
For more information & to RSVP:
https://www.winonashemp.com/conference2021
Giigikendamowin Bagami-ayaa Wiinibwaakaawin
Let the knowledge of our past become the wisdom of our future. -JoDan Rousu
Saturday January 16, 2021 2:00 PM MST
Winona LaDuke, the renowned political activist and environmentalist, is our guest speaker this month. As a rural development economist, she especially works on issues of economic, food, and energy sovereignty. She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, and leads several organizations including Honor the Earth, Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute, Akiing, and Winona’s Hemp. These organizations develop and model cultural-based sustainable development strategies utilizing renewable energy and sustainable food systems.
Attendees will get a 20% discount code to purchase her latest book, "To Be a Water Protector."
After the presentation and Q & A, stick around for some on-line socializing with other attendees.
LaDuke is an international thought leader in the areas of climate justice, renewable energy, and environmental justice. She is also a leader in the work of protecting Indigenous plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering. She has authored six books including: Recovering the Sacred, All our Relations, Last Standing Woman, The Winona LaDuke Chronicles, and her newest work To Be a Water Protector.
with Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute sponsored by Winona’s Hemp & Heritage Farm October 10-11th, 2020
The Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, in cooperation with the Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Planning Committee, presents the Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture:
Understanding Our Food Systems is a collaborative participatory, action-based project led by fourteen First Nations communities and supported by a collaborative partnership between the Thunder Bay District Health Unit and the Indigenous Food Circle.
Join us as internationally-renowned activist and author Winona LaDuke - an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) member of the White Earth Nation - discusses how the pandemic provides us with an opportunity to walk a new path, taking care of each other, and our Mother Earth.
Join us for an evening all about hemp, one of the most useful plants known to humankind.
We’ll show a short film, talk about Patagonia’s sourcing and use of the fiber, and give the mic to internationally known activist/author Winona LaDuke, who’ll tell you about her efforts to restore foodways, “rematriate” seeds and build a new economy based on locally produced food, energy and fiber. We’ll have refreshments and Patagonia Provisions snacks. Bring a friend and come learn about this misunderstood plant.
Doors 7 PM
Event 7:30 PM
PATAGONIA WASHINGTON, DC
3104 M St NW
202.333.1776
@patagoniadc
patagonia.com/dc
Join us for an evening all about hemp, one of the most useful plants known to humankind.
We’ll show a short film, talk about Patagonia’s sourcing and use of the fiber, and give the mic to internationally known activist/author Winona LaDuke, who’ll tell you about her efforts to restore foodways, “rematriate” seeds and build a new economy based on locally produced food, energy and fiber. We’ll have refreshments and Patagonia Provisions snacks. Bring a friend and come learn about this misunderstood plant.
Doors 7 PM
Event 7:30 PM
PATAGONIA NYC UPPER WEST SIDE
426 Columbus Ave
917.441.0011
@patagonianyc
patagonia.com/upperwestside
Mark your calendars on the evening of February 28th through March 3rd, 2019, for the 16th Annual Indigenous Farming Conference, Aanji-bimaajitoon Gidibaajimowininaan, Revitalizing Our Story sponsored by the White Earth Land Recovery Project.
The 2nd Annual Anishinaabe Hemp Conference the day of February 28th, 2019 sponsored by the Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute and Winona’s Hemp & Heritage Farm.
Join us! 1st Annual Anishinaabe Hemp Conference sponsored by Winona LaDuke’s Hemp and Heritage Farm with Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute during the 15th Annual Indigenous Farming Conference
