Tag: Naturally Sourced
Extracting CBD: from artisanal practice to industrial production
As the cannabis market expands, extraction technologies are moving towards scalable processes with a lower environmental impact. The case of Herbolea Biotech and solventless extraction
Potent Ponics – What is aquaponics and how it stands apart from other agricultural practices?
Potent Ponics weigh in on what makes aquaponics a sustainable solution in comparison to other agriculture practices and why it’s so suitable for hemp or cannabis cultivation
Hemp Stories: Steve Marais captures sustainable natural fibers
It's all about hemp: hemp garments and an entire hemp collection: Made in Italy, aiming to present a new ‘Made and Sourced in Italy’ sustainable project
LOVR™, hemp-based leather: Revoltech’s commitment to upcycling hemp residues
Founded by three friends, the German company Revoltech offers sustainable leather alternatives using hemp residues, contributing to a circular economy and winning multiple eco-awards
HempAge: The Evolution of Textile Hemp from Ceaușescu’s Romania to Germany
From Romania to Germany, Robert Hertel followed the last plants able to process hemp fiber, turning an industrial legacy into a European textile project
How do you milk a snail?
The great snail rush: ethical farming innovations and the cultural evolution that turned an unlikely ingredient into a cornerstone of the beauty industry
Phytoremediation in Puglia: new life for the land around the ILVA steelworks
The Cartanapa project, winner of a Regione Puglia call for proposals, receives half a hectare of land for the cultivation of Cannabis sativa to remediate the soil
Rough paper from hemp textile scraps and paper waste
Muriel revives the tradition of paper made from hemp textile scraps and recovered materials, offering an alternative to conventional cellulose-based production
Milk can become textile: what a dairy does with a milk it cannot sell
Don’t cry over spilled milk. The story behind the idea of transforming food waste into fabric
Hemp in cosmetics and sport: anti-inflammatory products based on hemp oil and CBD
Rewell produces hemp-based ointments and cosmetics – hemp oil and cannabidiol (CBD) have analgesic, anti-inflammatory, soothing and regenerating properties useful for athletes
Hemp Care brings hemp into cosmetics through an integrated short supply chain
Hemp oil from Italian cultivation is processed within a single production cycle: formulation, testing and packaging take place in the same departments, with no external stages
Getting high without getting drunk
Mixology, herbs, ritual and Eli Martinez Bello at YAPA’s fourth Liquid Dialogues chapter — Altered states that has nothing to do with the alcohol
Hemp, cannabis and Made in Italy: a supply chain across Abruzzo, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna
Italian production, international regulations, therapeutic uses and the recovery of abandoned land. Enecta, founded in the Netherlands by an Italian team, cultivates Cannabis in Italy. Founders Marco Cappiello and Jacopo...
What is a purpose-driven economy? Definition, meaning of each contemporary work
Running a business means giving profit to the owner and workers, as well as the community and the area where the business grows: purpose economy is a successful strategy for...
Every H is always for Hemp – Maren Krings says it loud: it’s all about Hemp
Maren Krings’ book H is for Hemp investigates industrial hemp: phytoremediation, carbon sequestration, and its potential in sustainable manufacturing practices
Producing paper from hemp – the case of Hahnemühle using ancestry old process
Since its foundation, the company has been using spring water for the milling of their paper. Producing from hemp fiber doesn’t require bleaching or chloride
Exploring Hemp in Design: Yasmin Bawa abandons concrete for hempcrate
«When I abandoned concrete, I managed to find something that is the opposite: it is breathable, permeable, not toxic». Yasmin Bawa’s production from concrete to hempcrate
Jungmaven – Why hemp clothing is more expensive than other fabrics on the market
Jungmaven is one of the first 100% hemp brands in Los Angeles: «We only need to grow about 50 acres of hemp» - says Robert Jungmann
100% female Hemp plants – the future is here
One of the most versatile and sustainable plant, hemp could explore mass production entry with NWG’s AMPLIFY hybrid trait fostering hemp populations with up to 100% female plants
Hemp Kamiko: Issey Miyake and the Japanese Craftsmanship
Under the creative direction of Satoshi Kondo, Issey Miyake pays tribute to the kamiko fabric tradition, made from fine hemp fibers and Japanese paper
Phytoremediation, Lagooning and Phytoextraction: hemp and the power of plants
Hemp as an ideal plant for phytoremediation projects for its tolerance to pollution and its versatility of use at the end of the phytoremediation process
Ninety-five percent water, five percent collagen: the jellyfish washing ashore as a textile
Salted, cross-linked, dyed with medieval egg yolk: researchers in the Netherlands, Japan and Israel are turning jellyfish collagen into fabric that behaves like skin because – structurally – it still is
Ambra, a laboratory in Tuscany for hemp inflorescences and solvent-free extracts
Between Maremma and Siena, Ambra grew out of a laboratory integrating organic agriculture, chemical analysis and solvent-free cold processing of the hemp phytocomplex
Sea resources: Bysco’s naturally sourced textile fiber from mussel waste
Bysco developed a textile fiber that comes from mussel secretions. Its technical properties can allow the replacement of synthetic fibers like fiberglass and polyester
Federcanapa and industrial hemp today: where does the Italian supply chain break?
A conversation with Beppe Croce, president of Federcanapa, on industrial hemp in Italy: how to cultivate and process it without a linear supply chain
What is the difference between sustainable and regenerative agriculture?
From regenerating contaminated soils to sustainable water management: hemp and regenerative agriculture, the RiqualifiCanapa project in Piedmont
Industrial hemp for food
Flour, oil and milk: hemp for food provides nutritional elements that are good for those who practice sports and for animal and livestock feed
Primo Piano: a perfume inspired by the unfinished palace of Luisa Casati in Venice
Primo Piano transforms Palazzo Venier dei Leoni into an olfactory project built around tuberose, incense, leather accords, cultural memory, and twentieth-century Venetian lifestyle
All about Hemp: the textile industry, fabrics and yarns, uses and operations
The only vegetable textile fiber that can be sourced in Italy is hemp. Scutching and retting are the two critical agricultural steps in a supply chain that supplies material to...
Indian cotton varieties: some seeds forgotten for 40 years
Aditi Mayer's The Artisan Archive traces the revival of India's indigenous cotton, from 40-year-old seeds to artisan livelihoods, organic farming, and a more resilient fashion supply chain
Freia and therapeutic hemp: a growing industry without a supply chain behind it
Hemp enters Italian clinical practice from the seed: studies on vulnerable patients, protocols and formulations free of psychoactive cannabinoids, while the production supply chain remains fragmented
Hemp cosmetics and rural architecture: the Canabetum experiment
Canabetum was founded in the Padua area as an agricultural and cultural project, combining natural cosmetics, rural architecture and a hemp supply chain that remains fragile and incomplete in Italy
From fields to bioreactors: hemp water retting
Italian Hemp Water Retting: monitoring water biological parameters, the new Bioreactor by Prototipo Studio is ready for operations
Hemp – why now is the best time to invest in the industry?
Canada is able to produce the raw material at a much lower cost than anywhere else, enabling them to see a larger profit market as a result
Natural binders: magnesium and potato starch make hemp products fully circular
Dutch designer and professor Jack Brandsma explains how the combination of hemp, water and natural binders allow the creation of a robust cement-like material
Hemp biocomposites: food packaging solutions using hemp biomass
An international team of scientists studies the valorization of hemp biocomposites, revealing its potential in developing sustainable food packaging solutions
Hemp Clothing Australia – Hemp clothing garments may last longer than any other materials
The medicinal properties of cannabis sativa – ‘hemp’ – have been overshadowed with marijuana. The possibilities of growing it are yet to be uncovered, due to legislation issues
How agriculture is reshaping professional haircare: the Davines Essential Haircare case
From Italian agricultural biodiversity to the European Regenerative Organic Center, Davines' Essential Haircare shows how cosmetic research increasingly connects farming, formulation and professional haircare
The link between hemp and female empowerment
Hemp cultivation as a form of female empowerment and womanity. The story of the European beguines and the hemp work that inspired the Sisters of the Valley
Do you need to apply for a license to grow hemp in New York?
A multidisciplinary team at Cornell collaborates to enhance hemp cultivation and resource sharing within the industry, backed by state funding and focused on research and education
The future of Ukraine: hemp can aid in reconstruction and sustainable growth
Exploring the potential of industrial hemp (Cannabis Sativa L.) cultivation in Ukraine as a tool to improve the economy and support sustainable development in the aftermath of conflict
Carbon-negative innovation: the power of hemp fibers
Hemp and carbon – combining hemp fibers and carbon negative coconut biochar reduces drying shrinkage in recycled aggregate concrete (RAC), enhancing its overall performance
Hemp in animal feed: facts and fiction
Regulatory concerns arise with the integration of hemp in livestock nutrition. A promoter of sustainable agricultural practices? Scientific research results show C02 reduction
Why do horses like hemp too? Agricola Genesi in the Modena area
Indoor hemp cultivation near Modena: selected genetics, hydroponics in coconut fibre and manual post-harvest processing. Winning Hemp Support, a product for horses, is made from the fibrous portion
From seed to fiber: Assocanapa and the rebuilding of the hemp supply chain
In Piedmont, Assocanapa is working to rebuild the industrial hemp supply chain through university research, agricultural mechanization and new textile and construction applications
Biology in the field: insects and microorganisms for sale to support agricultural production
Italian agriculture is reducing pesticides by rethinking crop protection from seed to harvest, in greenhouses and open fields: living organisms are once again useful tools for farming
