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Industrial hemp is a fast growing plant with many uses. It has been cultivated for more than twelve thousand years being used to make rope, clothing, paper, hemp oil and medicines. Growing hemp improves the condition of the ground and reduces ambient contamination. It is such a robust plant that it requires neither herbicides nor pesticides during its cultivation.

Industrial hemp has a long history, the first known use of hemp is as a cloth fabric, found in China and dating back to 8000B.C. Around 4000B.C. hemp started to used, again in China, to make ropes and as food. 2000 years later, the Chinese hemp oils and medicine were in use. By 1000B.C. it use had spread to India and Greece where the first instances of hemp paper were found.

By the 6th century hemp was being used in Europe in some amazing ways, in France a hemp reinforced bridge was built and it is still in use today. It was also being used to make sails, caulking and fishing nets and lines. Later hemp was used to make a form of butter and even beer. By the 15th century Renaissance painters were using hemp canvases.

Today industrial hemp is used to make a staggering variety of products ranging from medicines, body care products, building and insulating materials, clothing, textiles, food, fuel, livestock food and bedding, plastics and paper.