Log Cabin Hemp Brake, 1900
‘Older man in a felt hat operating a hemp brake. He is standing in front of a log cabin, with a tall split-rail fence in the background.’ Mercer County, Kentucky 1900-1904
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‘Older man in a felt hat operating a hemp brake. He is standing in front of a log cabin, with a tall split-rail fence in the background.’ Mercer County, Kentucky 1900-1904
‘The Cultivation of hemp’ (La Culture De Chanvre), photographed by F. Chapeau in Behuard, France photographed sometime between 1911-1955, postcard published late 50’s If you look real close you can just make out who I’m guessing to be his wife Read More …
‘Old man, farmer’, hand tinted photograph by Felice Beato in Korea between 1871-1877
After the plow, the farmer took a break for a pipe. ‘Farm animals in North China’ photographed by J.C. Carter published in ‘Familiar Chinese Faces’. Northern China early 1920’s
‘Marijuana is weighed and checked by Jim Farris, left, Sheriff Bob Turner and O.E. Higginbotham. Recovered after local farmer called deputies to investigate a army barracks bag deposited by two men in his fields four miles north of Oklahoma City.’ Read More …
‘Effects of sulfate of ammonia on hemp’ postcard, Haut Éclair, France 1890’s Hemp plants without ammonia sulfate on the left, yield 12 hundredweight per hectare, with ammonia sulfate on the right, yield 15 hundredweight per hectare. Read More …
Men hand heckle hemp at a processing plant in Versailles, Kentucky 1920
Parable of the Sower Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. And some Read More …
The 2018 Agriculture Improvement Act aka the Farm Bill was just signed into order officially opening the door for legal (regulated) hemp production in the United States nationwide! Seeing is believing so here is the full approved Read More …
‘Worker hauls a wagon loaded with hemp using a experimental four-wheel drive International 8-16 tractor.’ Wisconsin 1917