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Colorado to Form Hemp Industries Association (HIA) State Chapter

FORT COLLINS, CO, February 04, 2017 — Colorado HIA embarks on efforts to become official HIA state chapter. Behind this venture is a collaboration of farmers, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, artists, producers and community members, all hoping to lead the way in state and federal hemp standards and legislation.

This initiative started off with a series of state wide informational sessions, inviting the public to learn more about Colorado’s rapidly growing hemp industry, as well to take part in the Chapter’s formation. HIACO offers a productive outlet for individuals of any background to make social, legislative, and environmental change.

Fueling HIACO is the potential behind the plant. Serving as an extremely sustainable and versatile crop, hemp can produce an array of commodities including food, cosmetics, construction materials and pharmaceuticals. Colorado residents have already taken advantage of this opportunity with 312 active registrants growing on 8988 acres.

HIACO wraps up its final informational meetings February 4th in Grand Junction and February 9th in the Denver area. To learn more about HIACO and their upcoming events, visit https://www.facebook.com/ColoradoHIA/.

About HIACO:
The mission of the HIA, a 501(c)(6) membership-based non-profit trade group, is to represent the interests of the hemp industry and to encourage the research and development of new products made from industrial hemp, low-THC oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis. To become an official HIA member, visit https://www.thehia.org/join-us or https://hiaco.org for more information.

Media Contact:
Hunter Buffington
hunter@hiaco.org
(970)-388-2289

February 14, 2017
The Green Angel is Coming!!

by Thomas Ivory, Jr.

The Green Angel is being manifested and she needs YOUR help to take flight!!

Dismantled, yet not in dismay; in fact nothing but heavenly thoughts are floating by the warehouse as the paper cutter etches out each and every individual serrated leaf.

Purples and oranges and greens are naturally dyed with naturally grown vegetation and bugs like rabbits brush and cochineal.

The five components that make up the Angel are her halo headdress, her broad fan wings, her torso buds, her feet roots, and her long glorious leaf train.

Stunning and mesmerizing is she strutting the catwalk, her leaves waving joyfully in the breeze; the spotlight shining, like the eyes of Zeus, on her glistening royal coloring. 30% hemp fiber, 70% post-consumer fiber, and 100% divine!!

Never before has Colorado sourced industrial hemp paper been approved as suitable material for the infamous Paper Fashion Show in Denver… until now! Thursday, April 6^th, all the goddesses will be dancing at the Denver Center for Performing Arts.

The week before the Show, Hempsters at the 4^th annual NoCo Hemp Expo will get a unique opportunity to interact and engage with the Green Angel herself. She will be on display and featured in this year’s new Fashion Alley – sponsored by Hempy’s and EnviroTextiles of Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

Their hard work will be yours to share along with eco-friendly apparel at the NoCo4. There, you can walk the red carpet to the Digital Workshop Center’s Green Hemp Screen, where you can have your photo taken on the green screen stage and choose your background. Tweet or print photos on hemp paper also!!

Only now, at this moment, just weeks before any revelations, the Green Angel is still a twinkle in the dress fashion designers’ mind.

Joel Defender, Kevin Buecher, and Gravie are leading the song to conjure her creativeness. They invite you to join them in cutting and gluing. Every Thursday at 7pm for the next six weeks, the crew gathers at the Loveland Creator Space to make a lot of magic.

On the catwalk, the Green Angel is no doubt mystical. She holds many surprises. At the end of the runway, her inspiration — the hemp plant in all its glory — is designed for her to unfold her dress, stretch out wide her wings, and hold up her head proud and tall, as the broad fan leaves of the cannabis plant.

Loveland Creator Space
Thursdays @ 7pm for next 6 weeks
320 Railroad Road
Loveland, CO, 80537

NoCo Hemp Expo
March 31^st – April 1^st 2017
The Ranch Events Complex
5280 Arena Circle
Loveland, CO, 80538

13^th Annual Paper Fashion Show
Thursday, April 6^th, 2017
Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Seawell Ballroom
1101 13^th Street
Denver, CO, 80204

February 14, 2017
NoCo Hemp Expo 4 Presenting Sponsor Returns

Exhibitor space has sold out; a few sponsor opportunities remain.

Loveland, CO — (ReleaseWire) — 02/07/2017 –The NoCo Hemp Expo, the largest hemp-centric event in the U.S., has announced the return of CBDRx as presenting sponsor, the sellout of its available exhibit space and most of its sponsorship packages. To buy tickets to the March 31-April 1 event, visit our website.

“Our event, and the hemp industry, has built tremendous momentum over the last few years,” said Expo Founder Morris Beegle. “That, combined with some uncertainty in the current political realm, is creating more interest than ever in the work we’re doing to teach people about and support industrial hemp.”

The U.S. consumes $580 million in products made from imported hemp annually, but regulations that make it challenging to grow and process the crop mean that jobs and revenue related to hemp production and processing go to the 30 countries that grow it without burdensome government regulations. Hemp farmers in Canada are finding they get better return per acre than most any other commonly grown grain.

Where other nations are moving forward to support and expand growing this important crop, the U.S. seems to be moving backwards. In particular, Hoban Law Group filed suit last month opposing a DEA decision to codify all cannabinoids derived from marijuana or hemp as Schedule I controlled substances.

“We’re paying a huge price because bureaucrats who don’t know the industry and its value lump hemp and marijuana – and all cannabinoids – together,” notes Beegle. “Hemp-derived cannabinoids have proven therapeutic and nutritional value and are not psychoactive. Those who represent us and refuse to acknowledge that threaten a myriad of businesses and jobs across the country, and deny hard-working U.S. citizens the significant opportunity to create jobs and revenue.”

NoCo Hemp Expo 4 Harvest Sponsors include EnerHealth Botanicals and Sub-Zero Extracts. Hemp Summit Sponsors include Canna Pro Series, Hemp Biz Journal and Hoban Law Group. For a complete list of sponsors for the NoCo Hemp Expo 4 and special related events, including the Hemp Summit, Global Hemp Village, Fashion Alley, and more, visit the Sponsors Page.

For a complete list of vendors and exhibitors, visit our website. A detailed formal agenda, complete with the lineup of this year’s speakers and panels, will be announced soon.

Expo events offers two full expo halls; a dedicated business/industry day; the Hemp Summit with CannaPro Series(CPS) for attorneys, accountants and professional services; Fashion Alley; an Artists & Activists Tent; as well as expert speakers, workshops, demonstrations, and countless other educational and networking opportunities and a post-expo concert.

About NoCo Hemp Expo 4, Colorado Hemp Company and TreeFreeHemp
WAFBA LLC (We Are For Better Alternatives) is home to the NoCo Hemp Expo, TreeFreeHemp and Colorado Hemp Company, located in Loveland, Colorado and operating since 2012. Areas of focus include product and brand development, marketing, printing, production, events and advocacy. Learn more at NocoHempExpo.com, and find us on Facebook and Twitter.

February 7, 2017
Let American Farmers Grow Hemp Once Again to Create Jobs and Rebuild the Rural Economy, Petition 2-11-2017
NHA Hemp Blog, Editorial

It’s a natural state of affairs that as time moves on and human society progresses, there’s a tendency for industries to come and go. We learn new things and develop new technologies and, as a result, certain industries fade out and new ones take their place. Areas with diverse economies based off of multiple industries can usually weather these storms, but it can be harder for rural economies that are often small in scale and tend to lack that diversity. The impact can be severe, leading to limited job prospects, poverty, and sometimes the dissolution of small communities that once thrived.

This is particularly true of certain rural farming and mining communities that have been reliant upon industries such as tobacco farming and coal mining. Over the years we have learned quite a bit about the health hazards of tobacco and the negative environmental and health effects of the coal industry. That knowledge combined with changing market forces have led to reduced jobs and subsequent negative impacts on affected communities. In such situations, it’s wise to have the foresight to seek out new industries to replace the old. In this particular case, I argue not for a new industry, but for the return of an old one, unfairly maligned and of great potential value for our economy.

Hemp is not marijuana. The two are “significantly differentiated at a genome-wide level.”¹ Legally, the distinction is in the content of the psychoactive ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). In Canada, the maximum THC content of hemp is 0.3%.² In the US, after the Controlled Substances Act (1970), “hemp is no longer recognized as being distinct” from marijuana, regardless of THC content.³

Botanically, there are several variants of Cannabis, though there is disagreement on exactly how to classify them. All contain cannabinoids, though not all are psychoactive. The two major types of cannabinoids are THC and an anti-psychoactive cannabinoid known as CBD. The type of cannabis that is high in THC and low in CBD is known as marijuana and the type that is low in THC and high in CBD in known as hemp.⁴

Hemp is produced for its fiber and oil rather than for its flowers and has an extensive history as a cash crop, not just in the US, but worldwide. In our country’s past, it was used primarily to make rope, but also cloth and paper. Today it is used for those things, but also for health foods, body care products, clothing, auto parts, construction materials, biofuels, plastic composites, and more. The wide variety of uses for hemp give it great potential as a modern cash crop. It has particular promise to supplement or replace tobacco as a cash crop in regions such as Kentucky where tobacco has predominated for years, particularly since government support for growing tobacco ended in 2004.⁵In addition, there are environmental benefits since hemp is well suited as a rotation crop, can be grown without pesticides, and is a high yield crop.⁶

Some law enforcement officials argue that farmers could hide marijuana plants in their hemp fields, however with cross pollination being an issue, this is not something that farmers would be likely to try. The hemp plants cross pollinating with the marijuana plants would lead to marijuana with reduced THC content, with is an undesirable consequence.⁶ Also, marijuana plants are typically planted further apart than hemp plants to encourage the growth of their leaves & flowers, whereas hemp plants are typically grown closer together as the stalks are what is of primary value.⁷ Finally, as marijuana itself becomes decriminalized from state to state, the issue is increasingly benign.

There are two bipartisan bills in congress that would bring back hemp farming and rural jobs. It is our wish that President Trump would work with congress to pass hemp legislation in 2017. Please see the petition below to lend your support to that cause.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/let-american-farmers-grow-hemp-once-again-create-jobs-and-rebuild-rural-economy
1. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0133292
2. http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/econ9631
3. http://www.hemp.com/history-of-hemp/
4. West, David P. PhD. Hemp & Marijuana: Myths & Realities. Madison: North American Industrial Hemp Council: 1998. http://www.naihc.org/hemp_information/content/hemp.mj.html
5. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/10/hemp-farmer/505604/
6. http://nationalhempassociation.org/facts-statistics-hemp/
7. https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL32725.pdf
8. Rubin, Saul. Offbeat Marijuana: The Life and Times of the World’s Grooviest Plant. Santa Monica: Santa Monica Press: 1999. Print.
February 7, 2017
A First for Colorado: Tree Free Hemp Is Producing Paper From Seed to Sheet

For the first time, hemp paper is being produced in Colorado from seed to sheet. Loveland’s Tree Free Hemp has been producing hemp paper since 2013, but until this year, it’s been getting the fiber from other countries. Now the entire process is local.

“It’s grown in Colorado, it’s processed in Colorado, it’s manufactured in Colorado, it’s printed in Colorado. It’s truly homegrown,” says Morris Beegle, a former concert promoter now focused on promoting hemp through the Colorado Hemp Company, which he founded in 2012, and the NoCo Hemp Expo.

<a href=”http://www.westword.com/marijuana/a-first-for-colorado-tree-free-hemp-is-producing-paper-from-seed-to-sheet-8683089″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Read the full article here at Westworld</a>

January 16, 2017
Early Bird Ticket Sales for NoCo Hemp Expo 2017 End January 27

Join the largest gathering of its kind in North America, where everyone has a role in Setting the Stage for Hemp Tomorrow

Loveland, CO — (ReleaseWire) — 01/11/2017 –Early bird tickets for NoCo Hemp Expo 2017 are on sale through January 27th. Industry experts from around the globe will be in attendance, and thousands of burgeoning entrepreneurs, investors, innovators, farmers, and consumers alike, will descend upon the Loveland location to join the hemp revolution currently underway in the USA.

The NoCo Hemp Expo Hall will be filled with exhibitors and sponsors showcasing a wide array of products, services, technology, and equipment that is set to open up a multi-billion dollar domestic industry in the next three to five years. Products include textiles and apparel, building materials, super foods, bodycare, personal wellness and health supplements, bio-plastics and composites, paper and specialty board products, nano-tech fiber technologies, extraction and processing equipment, and much more. This is where you will learn everything you need to learn about the non-psychoactive side of the cannabis plant. This is where you will learn that hemp is not marijuana.

Section 7606 of the 2014 Farm Bill, passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama, differentiates industrial hemp from marijuana at the federal level, and legalizes the growth and production in states that have passed legislation and setup the regulatory framework through the department of agriculture. It defines industrial hemp as follows:

“The term ‘industrial hemp’ means the plant Cannabis sativa L. and ANY PART OF SUCH PLANT, whether growing or not, with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis.”

The 2014 Farm Bill language reaffirms and expands the 2004 Ninth Circuit Court’s ruling on imported industrial hemp in HIA vs. DEA that protects naturally occurring cannabinoids, including delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis.

This week, Congressman Jared Polis of Colorado and Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky reintroduced the Industrial Hemp Farming Act which would completely remove Industrial Hemp from the Controlled Substances Act. “The federal ban on hemp has been a waste of taxpayer dollars that ignores science, suppresses innovation, and subverts the will of states that have chosen to incorporate this versatile crop into their economies,” said Representative Polis.

The NoCo Hemp Expo enters its fourth year at The Ranch Events Complex on March 31 and April 1, 2017, in Loveland, Colorado. The expo has grown from just over 300 attendees in 2014 to more than 3,000 in 2016. Attendance is expected to exceed 4,000 in 2017. These numbers reflect growth nationally in market interest and production of industrial hemp. Roughly 200 acres planted in various states in 2014 grew to more than 10,000 acres planted in 2016, with an additional 2 million+ square feet of indoor greenhouse space growing high cannabinoid, non-psychoactive hemp targeted for the health and wellness sectors of industry. More than 30 states have passed hemp legislation that effectively nullifies the outdated and incorrect inclusion of industrial hemp within the Controlled Substances Act.

Colorado Hemp Company president and NoCo Hemp Expo Founder Morris Beegle recently stated, “Industrial hemp, along with all of the nutritional, nutraceutical, health and wellness benefits, are one side of the beneficiary coin for those living in the United States. The other side includes the tremendous economical and environmental benefits of allowing farmers nationwide to grow hemp without impediment from the overreaching arm of the federal government. Industrial hemp is a crop that should be managed by the Department of Agriculture, just like corn, soy, and potatoes, and should not have interference from the DEA or FDA. Industrial hemp is an ag crop…period.”

About NoCo Hemp Expo 4, Colorado Hemp Company and TreeFreeHemp
WAFBA LLC (We Are For Better Alternatives) is home to the NoCo Hemp Expo, TreeFreeHemp and Colorado Hemp Company, located in Loveland, Colorado and operating since 2012. Areas of focus include product and brand development, marketing, printing, production, events and advocacy.

Learn more at NocoHempExpo.com, and find us on Facebook and Twitter.

January 14, 2017
First of its Kind: Colorado-Grown, Processed, and Manufactured Hemp Paper

by: Thomas Ivory, Jr.

As the laser printer singes the first lines of the etching, Kevin Buecher studies the effect of the heat on the paper. He watches through a glass window into the table-size enclosed capsule where a small moving laser glides horizontally along a vertical moving arm. The cream white hemp paper inside is lightly burnt only where the high-powered laser has been programmed to direct heat. Light brown wording, and then slowly an image, appears as the laser cascades down the paper.

“Exploring laser printing onto hemp paper,” said Buecher, Tree Free Hemp, “gets some really beautiful outputs.”

This particular paper he is etching is the first of its kind: Colorado-grown, processed, and manufactured. (Sterling, Fort Lupton, and Boulder, CO, respectively.) The hemp stalks were separated into pulp, lignin, and sugars; and the paper is a blend of hurd and fibers mixed with locally sourced recycled post-industrial.

According to the Artisan Hemp website: “As a material for paper making, hemp is superior – the fibers are very high in cellulose, making them strong and durable; and low in lignin, making it easier to process into pulp without toxic acidic chemicals.”

2000 sheets were produced for this first all-Colorado handmade small batch of 14×19 size pages. Tree Free Hemp incorporates the domestic supply of what is available on the market to create new and original products. This first go around brought PureHemp Technology and their counter-current reactor technology into the fold as PureHemp Pulp was used to create the first ever batch of Colorado HomeGrown HempStalk Paper.

Soon expanding from collector prints into industrial paper markets (like commercial print rolls and master cartons, board stock for packaging, paper towels, toilet paper, etc.), “We’re looking at changing the supply from Canada to domestic,” said Morris Beegle, founder of Tree Free Hemp. “Right now, we’re a specialty printer and artist driven focusing on hemp paper.”

Back at the Loveland Creator Space, Buecher checks his laptop configurations and dials in the laser printer to a slightly higher temperature. The laser is literally burning the etching into the paper, and too high of heat would burn right threw. That is, unless that is the desired outcome.

He earlier tested the power of the laser (and the strength of the paper) by cutting out a design – a cannabis leaf. He put a small hole in the top and called it a Christmas tree ornament.

As for these prints, “Each one is unique,” said Buecher, holding up the first sheet to the shop lights. Some words are lightly burnt, while areas of the image – a man in overalls raising his arm – are darker brown. The shop lights warm the various burnt-depths in the paper.

“Kevin is all about the paper and doing cool stuff,” said Beegle over the phone. “He goes off into these other areas, goes off the path,‘Into the Trees,’ as we like to say. And who knows where that might lead.”

In the shop, the laser printer rests in standby, and Buecher retrieves the paper from the machine. The image on the sheet is a man thrusting a leafy hemp stalk over his head, with the words: “This is my BoomStalk!”

“Paper is really just the start,” said Buecher, using magnets in the printer to secure the next blank sheet. “We’re exploring all the artistic connections we can do.”

December 6, 2016
SLV Hemp Symposium

T

here is a valley in South Central Colorado, an ancient intercontinental seaway, where the uplifting of the Rocky Mountains has created a unique natural environment. Bordered to the west by the San Juan Mountains and to the east by the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the San Luis Valley is the highland of an endorheic basin which supplies the headwaters and aquifers of the Rio Grande River.

Wild horses roam free over the low-lying “chico” greasewood bushes while a multitude of hawks soar above in the big sky. The high-altitude desert is home to a rugged lifestyle. This is where many self-sustaining people live.

This Saturday, November 5^th, Adams State University, located in Alamosa, Colorado, will host the inaugural SLV Hemp Symposium on campus at the Student Union Building. This will be a conference to enlighten those interested in growing, processing, and producing industrial and nutritional hemp products. Colorado Hemp Company is bringing hemp education, economics, and environmental information to the San Luis Valley.

Panels of speakers will discuss the basics of the emerging hemp industry, the ABCs of industrial hemp farming, building a local and national brand, understanding cannabinoids from person to plant, hemp processing techniques, building construction tips, hot topics of hemp law, CDA regulations and the Colorado Certified Seed Program, and much more.

This mini-expo and discussion board will give attendees the opportunity to buy, sample, and learn about industrial hemp products like apparel, body-care, food, plastics, building materials, and extracts.

The San Luis Valley holds a lot of natural wonder. Industrial hemp is only now being introduced to it.

Come learn how to get involved.

Doors open at 10am.

Tickets are on sale now for the 2017 symposium. https://on.spingo.com/e/slv_hemp_symposium

October 31, 2016
Hemp Conference Coming to Adams State University in Alamosa, CO

350Bringing hemp education, economics, and environmental information to the San Luis Valley.

Release Wire Loveland, CO –On November 5th, Adams State University will host the inaugural SLV Hemp Symposium. The event will take place on campus in the Student Union Building.

Adams State University is located in Alamosa, Colorado, in the San Luis Valley. The interest for growing and processing industrial and nutritional hemp has increased significantly over the last 3 years since the crop became legal under Amendment 64 in 2012 and later reinforced with the 2014 Farm Bill signed by President Obama. SLV Hemp Symposium is produced by Colorado Hemp Company and NoCo Hemp Expo and will bring together over 20 organizations for a mini-expo and Let’s Talk Hemp educational conference.

Attendees will get the opportunity to buy, sample and learn about hemp products including apparel, bodycare, hemp extracts, paper, food, plastics, building materials and much more. Featured presenters include Tim Gordon from CBDRx, Ryan Loflin from Rocky Mountain Hemp, Michael Bowman from the National Hemp Association, and Adams State University president Dr. Beverlee McClure.

Doors open at 10am and Tickets on Sale Now

More information on our Facebook Event page.

October 26, 2016
Hemp Harvest Party: A Celebration of the Season

By: Thomas Ivory – Colorado’s third harvest of regulated outdoor industrial hemp is soon complete, just like the dwindling hot days of summer. The cool autumn nights ask for much work still to be done, but time for celebrating the bounty of hard work and dedication is also appreciated.

We are lucky in Colorado to have grown as a community and industry in so many prosperous and innovative ways over the past few years. Our continued professionalism is more than setting an example for other States; it is creating aristocratic conversation for all States and governments to participate.

Let us not forget those less fortunate by continuing support for individual and State rights to grow industrial hemp and uphold the constitutions and the Bill of Rights.

To celebrate Colorado’s (and the whole country’s) 2016 outdoor industrial hemp harvest, Colorado Hemp Company and Colorado Hemp Project is hosting its third annual Hemp Harvest Party!

They are collecting pictures from the 2016 season, from planting to harvesting, to be displayed in a video released at the party.

The hemp harvest of 2014 in Sterling, Colorado, with Bill Billings and his daughter Dani, set the stage for the first CHC harvest party. This event was epic — right out on the farmland, hemp field swaying directly behind live musicians, skateboarders on a half-pipe, hemp vendors under shade, and in the middle of it all: a hemp maze.

Walnut Room in Denver brought the party to the city in 2015. Now, more of the State was represented with easier access to the countrywide celebration. CHC honored all industrial hemp participants by gathering photos of the second year’s outdoor hemp season and presenting a video at the party.

The capitol city was so good to the Hempsters last year that CoHempCo is excited to host again the third annual Hemp Harvest Party 2016 at the Globe Hall in Denver, Colorado, Friday, October 14th, from 8pm-close. This will be an intimate opportunity to network, listen to live music, watch a photo-video, and celebrate the progress of sustainable agriculture.

The Taylor Scott Band will be headlining the party featuring Dave Beegle. Check out the sound recently recorded in Old Town, Fort Collins, by RAYBURN MEDIA. Also taking the stage will be Rob Drabkin, and Colorado local Rob Trueblood (who has opened the event the past two years) will again grace the stage first.

General admission and sponsorship tickets are on sale now. Get them online HERE

Again, we are blessed in Colorado to have a conscientious community where we demand our statewide right to grow industrial hemp and practice sustainable agriculture. Lets celebrate together and show the rest of the country there are gifts and rewards from our communal efforts.

And please remember, for the industry to function properly, we need the whole country participating in progressive living. Contact State representatives; e-mail Senators, Congressmen, Lobbyist; sign petitions to let those in charge know: the people of America want healthier and happier lives. We want to grow industrial hemp.

October 10, 2016
Road to NoCo Starts Now

By Morris Beegle
Photo credit: Margaret MacKenzie

Howdy folks, welcome to my first blog in a very long time. We’re putting the final touches on launching registration for the 4th annual NoCo Hemp Expo and I thought it would be a good time to reflect back on what has transpired since the beginning of April. For those of you that attended NoCo3, you know it was pretty epic, and some might say Pure-Hemp-Epicness! One thing it was for sure, was an excellent gathering of smart, passionate, forward-thinking individuals who are out there fighting the good fight. The movement is alive and we are now in the final days of hemp and cannabis prohibition. How the chips fall over the coming months and years is not for certain, but what we can say for sure is that prohibition as we’ve come to know it, is almost finished. And it’s our job, all of ours, to finish it. If we end up with a president Trump, disregard any and all predictions I make within this article. Prohibition will be the least of our worries.

Since NoCo3, all things hemp have kicked into overdrive for farmers, processors, entrepreneurs, associations and ancillary businesses entering into this exciting industry. People and companies are committing serious time, energy, and capital into building business relationships and infrastructure to grow. We have been gathering at industry-specific functions locally and nationally, working together state by state to pass meaningful legislation, all the while pushing Washington DC to pay a little bit of attention to our industry. We’ve had missteps along the way, we’ve had little victories and big victories, DEA, FDA and USDA interference to varying degrees, and we have more work to do.

Speaking of industry gatherings, this summer kicked off with a slew of Hemp History Week events followed up in July with the Science of Industrial Hemp Conference in Denver and Hemp On The Slope in Collbran, CO. August gave us The NoCo Hemp Village at the Arise Music Festival with Ziggy Marley, Jurassic 5, Papadosio and 100 other acts at one of the top-conscious festivals anywhere. If you’ve attended Arise you know what I’m talking about, and if you haven’t, you need to attend. This last week from September 18-20, the 23rd Annual Hemp Industries Association Conference came to Westminster, CO and provided a truly exceptional forum for industry professionals to interact and do business. There was a nice blend of old school and new school hempsters participating in panels and presentations, exhibiting, networking, and having fun. The way it should be.

The Road to NoCo begins early October with the launch of sponsor and exhibitor registration. We’re truly excited for NoCo4 which takes place again in Loveland at The Ranch Events complex on March 31-April 1, 2017.

Moving on, Friday October 14th we celebrate with the 3rd annual Hemp Harvest Party happening at Globe Hall in Denver. This is an industry focused networking party and concert, featuring great Colorado acts including the Taylor Scott Band with special guest Dave Beegle, Rob Drabkin and Rob Trueblood. We pay homage to hemp farmers around the state and country for the work and progress they’ve done throughout the 2016 growing season.

Late October brings us to the 3rd Annual Colorado Hemp Symposium and Legislative Workshop on October 26th in Loveland. This event is hosted by Congressman Jared Polis and more information can be found at Here.

In November we head on the road to Adams State University in Alamosa for the inaugural San Luis Valley (SLV) Hemp Symposium taking place on Saturday November 5th. This is a smaller trade show and conference that will feature 25-35 hemp companies with the educational LET’S TALK HEMP sessions going on throughout the day. Please contact us if you are interested in joining us. More information on this event can be found at www.slvhempsymposium.com.

That’s it for now. I hope to start blogging a little more frequently going forward and share information that seems to get lost along the way. Feel free to reach out to me at hemp@coloradohempcompany.com with any comments, thoughts, or blog topic suggestions. Thanks for reading.

September 29, 2016
NoCo Hemp Village at Arise Festival promotes “thriveability”

One of the fastest growing next-gen Festivals in the country, Arise is not only about Music. Programming includes workshops with thought leaders,environmental activists, and even planting a tree for each ticket sold. The addition of the NoCo Hemp Village this year brings with it the potential of bio-degradable plastics, tree-free paper and life changing medicines. The Hemp Industry in the United States is tenuous and still federally illegal; in spite of this, Colorado leads the country in farming and production.

#NoCoHempVillage will offer Hemp merchandise from body products to clothing, CBD oils and tinctures, art with Hemp Paper and a series of roundtable discussions. Environmental and economic activists will join farmers and entrepreneurs to talk about public policy, medicine, farming and the economics of Industrial Hemp – a true showcase of what is labeled the ‘new’ Industrial Revolution; one of mindful development, sustainability, and wellness. Let us all grow vigorously together and thrive in a world where a plant might actually be the answer.

Check out the Arise Festival here – arisefestival.com

August 4, 2016
Hemp Festivals in 2016: More Than A Movement

Loveland based promotions company brings together art, education, and community through local events focusing on industrial hemp and sustainability.
media credit: Ben Wright

Colorado Hemp Company is coming off of an extremely successful 2016 NoCo Hemp Expo that brought together thousands of national and international participants with more than 130 exhibitors, 70 industry speakers and panelists, and over 3200 visitors who attended the annual event at The Ranch Events Complex in Loveland, CO.

The expo included a wide variety of different hemp based businesses representing the US chain of supply and the growing demand for a hemp market.

From processing companies to veteran farmers, product and technology developers, and end users, there was no shortage of industry innovators at the Northern Colorado event.

CHC Events This Summer

On the horizon, Colorado Hemp Company is collaborating with a multiple events throughout the summer including Hemp On The Slope happening July 30th in the beautiful Plateau Valley on the western slope of Colorado!

Presented by Salt Creek Hemp Co and taking place at the 200 acre Salt Creek Ranch in Collbran, #HempOnTheSlope will bring together industry experts and companies for “Let’s Talk Hemp” educational panels and conversations, demonstrations on mobile decortication and extraction, workshops on building with hemp, and exhibitor booths filled with products and information.

On August 5-7, Colorado Hemp Company brings the first NoCo Hemp Village to the fourth annual ARISE Music Festival at Sunrise Ranch in Loveland, CO.

ARISE Festival is a Loveland based, musically diverse, festival-wonderland experience. Featuring 7 stages of live music, yoga, workshops, theme camps, art gallery and installations, children’s village, speakers, films and camping on 100 beautiful mountain valley acres.

Voted Colorado’s “Best Music Festival” by Grateful Web and “Top Seven Nex-Gen Festivals” in North America by BuzzFeed, ARISE is committed to helping sustain a thriving planet. Each year, the festival partners with Fort Collins based non-profit Tree’s, Water, and People to plant one tree for every ticket sold.

This web of local community, art, and sustainability makes a perfect fit for unveiling the world of industrial and nutritional hemp through education and outreach.

Colorado Hemp Company and its sister brand Tree Free Hemp “Paper for the Planet” will be providing a variety of hemp-printed marketing and promotional materials to the conscious and sustainability driven festivals like ARISE, expos, and conferences throughout the country who are looking to reduce their environmental impact by using non wood-based alternatives.

Be sure to visit their booth this year at NoCo Hemp Village for your own festival-inspired, specialty hemp-printed poster!

About NoCo Hemp Expo, Colorado Hemp Company and Tree Free Hemp:

WAFBA LLC (We Are For Better Alternatives) is home to the NoCo Hemp Expo, Tree Free Hemp and Colorado Hemp Company located in Loveland, Colorado and operating since 2012. Areas of focus include product and brand development, marketing, printing, production, events and advocacy.

May 12, 2016
NoCo founder envisions ‘an industry that will be unstoppable’

INTERVIEW: MORRIS BEEGLE
Founder & Owner
Colorado Hemp Company

Morris Beegle spent more than 20 years in the American entertainment industry before turning his attention to the growing U.S. market for ecological, sustainable products. He is the founder and owner of the Colorado Hemp Company (CHC), organizer of NoCo Expo, one of the premier U.S.-based hemp industry trade shows, which recently held its third annual Expo. CHC also offers a wide range of marketing, product and brand development services for hemp-based producers and retailers. Morris is on the business advisory council of the (U.S.) National Hemp Association.

Read the full article here at Hemptoday.com

April 28, 2016
Bringing the Global Hemp Market to the US – Third Annual NoCo Hemp Expo a Huge Success

Largest hemp expo and trade show in North America displays the maturation of the growing hemp market and carries a tune of freedom, innovation, and progress for U.S. economy.

This press release was orginally distributed by ReleaseWire

Loveland, CO — (ReleaseWire) — 04/07/2016 — Presented by: CBDRx

2016 marks an unforgettable year for NoCo Hemp Expo. As crowds gathered on April 1-2 outside of the Ranch Events Complex in Loveland, CO, one thing was clear: the word is out about hemp.

Over 3,100 people attended the expo this weekend, almost tripling last year’s attendance rate of 1,250 with visitors traveling from across the globe to witness the many advances taking place in the hemp industry today.

Produced by Colorado Hemp Company, NOCO3 was an awe-inspiring event including hundreds of local and international hemp-based businesses, investors and entreprenuers, all coming together for the common goal of furthering a market for hemp in the U.S.

The significance of this year’s event was marked by the increasing number of hemp-based business and the diversity of business models present, calling attention its role in commercial and economical development.

“The 3rd Annual NOCO hemp expo was sensational! Colorado Hemp Company is a monumental force in the hemp industry bringing farmers, processors , retailers and more into one venue for a spectacular event! Amazing weekend for networking, education and information…unlike any other hemp event!” -Tim Gordon, Operations Chief at CBDRx

Attendees awaited entrance into the fully-packed 36,000 sq. ft. arena where companies like Manitoba Harvest, Elixinol, SeedCX, and Hemp Flax met to converge and represent a global industry currently making its way to the U.S.

The Word Is Out About Hemp

For those on the ground floor, NoCo3 was a time to shine.

NoCo Hemp Expo featured a bold representation of leaders uniting under one roof for the future of hemp, demonstrating the magnitude of its many applications and uses from activities and educational workshops to art and automotive installations.

Exhibitors presented unique advances in technology such as hemp 3-D printing and the hemp-made, hemp battery-powered bicycle from Reakiro Labs, accenting its ability to support other existing industries through the retrieval of sustainable living.

Over 130 exhibitors participated at NoCo3 this year, providing a myriad of services and offering top of the line products like all-natural hemp clothing from Vital Hemp, Fibre Poet, and more.

Another key element to the expo was “Step-n-Out in Hemp”, an earth-conscious fashion feature presented by EnviroTextiles‘s Summer Star-Haeske. The show featured stylish, sophisticated looks from designers worldwide like Hemptique, I.O.N Clothing, Conscious Elements, Lexus Hemp Fashion, and other must see brands.

Hemp body care products were a hit at the 2016 expo, with products from Ambary Gardens, and Nature’s Root Spa who offered in-house massages and facial treatments for attendees.

Speakers like Dr. Bob Melamede with Phoenix Tears and Author Doug Fine shed light on hot-button topics like plant prohibition, cannabinoids and neuroscience, bio-refining, and domestic energy independence on the Let’s Talk Hemp Stage.

Guests could literally feel the wheels of age-old knowledge turning as legendary activist and founder of Hemp Herer Industries, Dan Herer discussed the roots of our inextricable history with this amazing plant.

The Hemp Investment Summit

The Hemp Business Journal‘s first ever Hemp Investment Summit was a major milestone of the 2016 expo which showcased emerging businesses looking to take the stage in the hemp industry in 2017.

Sean Murphy, Founder at HBJ spoke on the state of the hemp industry in “What’s the Data Telling Us?” followed by an investor panel featuring Hunter Lovins, CEO at Natural Capitalism and Chris Boucher at Ananda Scientific.

In the processing panel, “What an Investor Needs to Know,” Hemp Inc.’s David Schmitt was joined by Ed Lehrburger, Founder and CEO at Pure Hemp Technology and Trey Riddle, CEO at Sunstrands.

Along with Alan Dronkers, CEO at Hemp Flax the investment summit featured insights from the world’s leading movers and shakers in hemp.

These are the key players who are molding the hemp industry into a coming of age, rapidly growing professional arena for entrepreneurs, farmers, retailers, and consumers today.

Moving Things Forward

Simply put, there isn’t an expo in the world that better encompasses the potential of the hemp plant. NoCo Hemp Expo is host to a growing network of individuals coming together in support of a tremendous opportunity for local industry, agriculture, and small business economy.

“Eurofins STA Laboratories is a newcomer to the testing of hemp seed for germination, seed health and cultivar purity and the 2016 NOCO Hemp Expo was a tremendous help in getting the word out to growers and companies about our services. Having a booth at the Expo provided us the means by which we could reach many potential clients in a short span of time. It was well worth it.” -John R. Mizicko, Business Development Manager at Eurofins STA Laboratories

For more information on the companies presented at NoCo3 or for live footage from the event featuring cutting-edge discussions, and ground-breaking topics from experts in their field visit http://www.nocohempexpo.com.

Stay tuned to Colorado Hemp Company and NoCo Hemp Expo to learn more about the hemp movement and how you can get involved in 2016! Visit National Hemp Association for year round gatherings and events regarding hemp legislation and donate to federal their campaign to help end prohibition today.

About NoCo Hemp Expo, Colorado Hemp Company and TreeFreeHemp
WAFBA LLC (We Are For Better Alternatives) is home to the NoCo Hemp Expo, TreeFreeHemp and Colorado Hemp Company located in Loveland, Colorado and operating since 2012. Areas of focus include product and brand development, marketing, printing, production, events and advocacy.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/bringing-the-global-hemp-market-to-the-us-third-annual-noco-hemp-expo-a-huge-success-679311.htm

Media Relations Contact

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Press Manager
NoCo Hemp Expo
Telephone: 985-518-7493
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April 12, 2016
The Rebirth of Industrial Hemp: Processing and Bio-refineries
Hemp is on the rise today, and facilities like Pure Hemp Technology and contributing to what Carl Lehrburger calls, “the thrust of the hemp revolution”.

By: Abbie Marks
With the passing of the federal Farm Bill and supporting state pilot programs, local businesses are providing farmers an opportunity in industrial hemp while manufacturing eco-friendly products.

Pure Hemp Technology, a hemp processing plant and bio-refinery located in Fort Lupton, CO is doing just that, promoting sustainable agriculture by converting industrial hemp into useable products.

As of last year, Colorado Department of Agriculture reported 3,675 acres of hemp grown in 2016, nearly tripling in volume of growing space and in number of participants last year. According to the National Hemp Association, hemp farming nationwide grew 1,000% in 2015.

Hemp farmers are driving the demand for companies like Pure Hemp Technology to process hemp today.

In this video with Ed Lehrburger, Founder of Pure Hemp Technology and Dani Billings, Co-Founder of Colorado Hemp Project and Nature’s Root discuss the role of the hemp plant in Colorado’s’ booming agricultural economy.

“Processing represents the thrust of the hemp revolution.” –Carl Lehrburger, Executive Manager of Pure Hemp Technology

Pure Hemp Technology is a wet processing plant which distinguishes them in their approach and represents a key “central supply chain” that simply doesn’t exist for whole plant processing.

(media credit: www.purehemptech.com)

This allows plants like Pure Vision to refine hemp into higher value products and strains in addition to fiber, pulps for paper, and other materials like lignin which consists of 20% of the plant. These materials are processed into several applications from chemicals and plastics to sugars, sweeteners, alcohol, and more.

Pure Vision/Pure Hemp Technology is a registered R&D facility in Colorado, producing different grades of pulps and stalks/hurd, long fibers, into useful products for green businesses.

Processing these co-products into these higher value products is critical to growing hemp.

“A company looking into textiles, processing, seed, etc, that only represents a fraction (of the market value),” says Lehrburger, “it makes growing it (hemp) more valuable (for American farmers).”

Facilities like Pure Hemp Technology provide farmers a means to commodify their harvest as well as readily available sustainable alternatives and to everyday consumer goods.

“Farmers have to be successful, pricing of commodities has to also be successful to buy seed, specialized equipment, etc.”

In light of the decline in opportunity and the challenges faced by Rural American farmers today, Lehrburger discussed the potential for jobs not only in the growing and agricultural sectors but in processing and manufacturing.

“The start of the hemp industry seems to represents a significant opportunity for revitalizing rural America, where the bigger picture is replacing oil-based products with bio-based products.”

In this article from Environmental Health News, Jessica Knoblauch reports that “evidence is mounting that the chemical building blocks that make plastics so versatile are the same components that might harm people and the environment. And its production and disposal contribute to an array of environmental problems.” 1.

Supporting the Industrial Hemp Farming Act, urging businesses to consider go green, and reaching out to congress is a huge push away from plastics and a way to help surge the rebirth of industrial hemp.

For more information on hemp processing and bio-refineries like Pure Hemp Technology, join Ed Lerhburger and Carl Lerhburger at NoCo Hemp Expo on April 1-2 at The Ranch Events Complex in Loveland, CO. Ed will be speaking at the Let’s Talk Hemp stage along with several key industry experts and business leaders during Saturday, April 2. To learn more about the expo and view a full schedule of events click here!
1. Knoblauch, Jessica A. “The Environmental Toll of Plastics.” Environmental Health News. N.p., 2 July 2009. Web. 30 Mar. 2016.
April 1, 2016
Driving Hemp into the Future: BMW Goes Biodegradable

Lighter-weight, fuel-efficient vehicles with hemp are right down the road.

By: Brad Shannon

Why use hemp to make automobiles? For a number of reasons. Hemp is lighter than steel or fiberglass, resists dents and is not brittle like carbon fiber, and it is biodegradable. Most importantly, hemp is carbon negative, says Bruce Dietzen of Renew Sports Cars.

(BMW door panel – media credit: Redspiderfish/Flickr)

Work is ongoing in Australia and Europe to create plant-based materials to replace parts that today use plastic and metal. A reduction in weight of 30% for such parts provides an instant boost in fuel economy, with a higher strength-to-weight ratio than steel. When it reaches the end of its useful life, just bury it and let it biodegrade.

You may have come across the story of Henry Ford’s hemp car online. Unfortunately, it seems that there is a lot of myth to that tale, according to The Angry Historian – at least when it comes to how much of the car was actually made of hemp. Rather, the plastic body panels used standard resin binder combined with natural materials such as hemp fiber as fill material. That popular image of Ford taking a whack at a car with an axe? It was a soybean-based material.

(media credit: Ford archives)

A sleeker, safer, faster modern take on a hemp car is a slick sports car built on a Mazda Miata chassis by Dietzen. The car’s body is made of hemp, and runs on biofuel that is a closed carbon loop in that it does not add any new carbon to the atmosphere when burned. It made an appearance down the road from us in Denver late last year. The next big step, it appears, could be vehicles with 3D printed hemp bodies; but some find it hard to beat the Lotus Eco Elise prototype from the 2008 British Motor Show, or the i3 and i8 concepts from BMW that incorporated hemp.

(media credit: Renew Sports Cars)

If you’re like most, though, your budget may run more along the lines of the electric Kestrel with hemp body panels promised by Calgary, Canada-based Motiv Industries (a neighboring market with more enlightened views on hemp cultivation that puts companies there at an advantage).

(media credit: Motiv Industries)

Not ready for a hemp-based car body? How about a nicer, more natural interior? Mercedes led the industry with jute-based door panels in its E-class, and BMW and Audi VW have followed in the use of plant fibers in their vehicles.

(media credit: Lotus)

Learn more about hemp and its future in the automotive and other industries from a wide variety of experts at the NoCo Hemp Expo 2016 at The Ranch Events Complex in Loveland, CO April 1-2.

March 31, 2016
The Stage is Set! Industrial Hemp Expo Unites Global Participants

Sponsored By Game Changers: Seed CX

The Time is Now to Sow the Seed

Are you ready for the largest hemp event in North America?

Opening Ceremonies begin Friday, April 1^st at 10 AM at The Ranch Events Complex in Loveland, CO. The NoCo Hemp Expo, now in its third year,  is the place to be for all things hemp. Colorado Hemp Company is honored to bring together the most experienced thought leaders from around the globe.

On April 2, stop by the Colorado Hemp Company Booth from 2-3 PM for your very own hemp-printed Declaration of Independence or pocket Constitution and have it autographed by our special guest Ben Franklin, Christopher Lowell.  Visit the Let’s Talk Hemp Stage as he shares his knowledge of hemp in the U.S from the perspective of one of our nation’s brightest inventors and leaders.

Did you know? Benjamin Franklin’s discovery of the electric current set in place the building blocks to modern electricity as well as many modern terms and applications still used today like the battery.

You won’t want to miss the myriad of hemp activities happening at NoCo Hemp Expo this weekend! Speaking on Processing and Technology, Doug Fine joins Pure Hemp Technology’s Ed Lehrburger and other knowledgeable panelists for an in-depth look into the future of hemp. From bio-refineries to hemp super capacitors, the applications for the hemp plant are endless and will be discussed at NoCo3.

Learn how to juice using hemp with professional Chef and Certified Biofeedback Specialist Cece Stalter of CBDRx. Take a glance into health, wellness, and nutrition with panelists like Dr. Bob Melamede, Ph.D. Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry and sample some of Ari Sherman’s Evo Hemp bars.

Join the fun with paper-making and hemp building workshops and more at the Quicksilver Scientific Stage. Embrace the world of quality hemp products from over 130 exhibitors at the expo or attend  a panel on U.S. made products featuring Dani Billings, Founder of Nature’s Root and Summer Star-Haeske, Owner/Co-Founder of EnviroTextiles.

Stick around for Keynote Speech from Doug Fine on The State of The Hemp Industry in 2016 and a message from Ben Franklin on Patriotism, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness happening at 4:00 PM in the Let’s Talk Hemp Theater.

Closing out NoCo3, Rep. Jared Polis will be delivering the Call to Action and speaking on the state the hemp industry in terms of in-state and federal legislation as well as the economic opportunities available in hemp. Polis and his Staff have been championing for hemp since the inaugural NoCo Hemp Expo was first produced in 2014. Come learn more about the state of hemp and be a part of the movement happening throughout the U.S.

Click here for a live schedule of the event. Purchase your tickets today before prices go up on Friday at the door! Enjoy a weekend dedicated to  hemp with live entertainment, hands-on activities, art, networking, and more at #NoCoHempExpo and be sure to check out the live HempWall where you can connect your message with everyone at the expo.

About NoCo Hemp Expo, Colorado Hemp Company and TreeFreeHemp

WAFBA LLC (We Are For Better Alternatives) is home to the NoCo Hemp Expo, TreeFreeHemp and Colorado Hemp Company located in Loveland, Colorado and operating since 2012. Areas of focus include product and brand development, marketing, printing, production, events and advocacy.

Press Contact: Abbie Marks

(985) 518-7493

abbie@nocohempexpo.com

March 30, 2016
The Future of Sustainable Building: Eco-Friendly Insulation, HempCrete and More

John Patterson of Tiny Hemp Homes and Joy Beckerman of Hemp Ace International describe how hemp is an ideal material for construction and see its application in commercial and home building growing in 2016.

By: Brad Shannon

Hemp as a building material has roots that stretch back millennia. Buildings constructed thousands of years ago using hemp still stand today at Ellora Caves in India, a testament to the plant’s suitability and durability as a construction material.

“Hemp as a building material is not a new idea,” notes Joy Beckerman of Hemp Ace International. “It’s an ancient trend proven over thousands of years, and there’s no need for new research to find ways to use it – we already know.”

Including the long list of benefits from green building, the versatility and sustainability of hemp is perhaps best showcased in the myriad ways it can be used as a building material today.

John Patterson of Tiny Hemp Houses notes that “A hemp wall replaces the combination of drywall, insulation, exterior boarding, house wrap, siding, caulk and paint all in one thermal wall system. It’s great at keeping a more comfortable constant temperature, is fire resistant, breathable, mold-, pest- and mildew-resistant, and over time extremely affordable.”

This helps create a home where, as Sergiy Kovalenkov’s company Hempire UA notes, hemp insulation and a high thermal mass helps regulate temperature and humidity to reduce heating and cooling costs; hemp materials create naturally vapor-permeable walls reduce or eliminate the need for ventilation; and hemp helps create a quiet living space that is non-flammable, resists mold and mildew, and repels pests. Using natural materials eliminates the possibility of toxic off-gassing from manmade materials, which could have a positive impact on our health.

(Hemp stalks showing the interior hurd media credit: HempCrete WorkShops)

Beyond being a versatile building material, using hemp for building is also good for the earth. Growing hemp helps not only reduce CO2 emissions, but actively removes CO2 from the air.

(Hemp hurd ready for use media credit: HempCrete Workshops)

Tiny Hemp Homes notes that industrial hemp is only grown on about 100,000 hectares globally, producing a crop valued at about $600 billion across industries that use hemp as a raw material.

That market will no doubt grow in the footsteps of what Beckerman describes as “a tremendous surge in projects globally and in the U.S., including commercial projects like the Marks & Spencer Cheshire Oaks store and The Triangle Project, a 40-unit housing complex, both in the UK. They use much less energy than traditional construction, and that is one thing that is making this something that is not just for tiny homes or pods.”

(HempCrete, Hemp Insulation, and Hemp Chip Board media credit: HempCrete Workshops)

Learn more about building with hemp from local, national, and global experts like Frank Wetenkamp, a Natural Building Professional with Tiny Hemp Houses, Joy Beckerman of Hemp Ace International, John Patterson of Tiny Hemp Houses, Sergiy Kovalenkov of Hempire UA, David Neisingh of Reakiro Labs, Anndrea Hermann of Hemp Technologies and many others at NoCo Hemp Expo 2016 at The Ranch Events Complex in Loveland, CO April 1-2.

In particular, don’t miss the Building with Hemp sessions featuring all of these folks in a panel discussion. Plan to catch one of these sessions:

April 1

Hempcrete Mixing with a Natural Plaster Finish
1:00 to 2:30 pm on the Quicksilver Scientific Workshop Stage

April 2

Hempcrete Mixing with a Natural Plaster Finish
Noon to 1:30 pm on the Quicksilver Scientific Workshop Stage

2:45 to 3:25 pm in the Hemp Business Journal Summit Room

(media credit: HempCrete Workshops)

March 28, 2016
Introducing the NoCo Hemp Expo HempWall!

By: Rachel Jackson

2016 has been a monumental year for hemp, and especially big for the NoCo Hemp Expo! As the largest, smartest hemp expo in the country, we want to connect our message with people in every way we can. That’s why this year the NoCo Hemp Expo is unveiling a brand new interactive social media platform, the Tweetwall!

Affectionately dubbed the HempWall, think of it as your interactive information stand. Throughout the Expo, we’ll be broadcasting the next big event, speaker, or panel happening up on screens all over the Expo! So when you are looking for the next hempcentric activity, look no further than the HempWall! You’ll be totally connected to everything happening around you, so you’ll want to check back frequently to make sure you’re not missing a thing.

But that’s not the whole reason we’re doing this. This is the 3rd year of the NoCo Hemp Expo, and we never would have gotten here if not for the loving support of all our attendees and volunteers. Without you we never would have gotten to be the biggest, baddest hemp expo in the country, and this year we want the spotlight to be on you! So we want to see YOU while you’re sampling, cooking, painting, jamming or just having fun at the #nocohempexpo! And we’re doing that through the magic of our HempWall.

It’s pretty simple. Log in to your Twitter account, follow @NoCoHemp, and simply tag your photo, thought, or friends with the hashtag #nocohempexpo. It will automatically pop up on the HempWall, which is being projected up on screens all over the Expo! So when you snap a selfie with Ben Franklin, or find your new favorite hemp snack, put it on Twitter and hashtag #nocohempexpo, so everyone can see! Maybe you’ll even see someone you know.

Nowhere near a Hempwall screen? Check your pocket. The Tweetwall also works on your mobile phone, if you pull up the website on your smartphone you’ve got the #nocohempexpo right in your hand. Send the link to your friend who couldn’t make it, and they can watch the #nocohempexpo livestream in front of their eyes. It’s almost as much fun as being there (almost.)

You can check out the HempWall in action over at nocohempexpo.tweetwally.com. Get those Twittering fingers ready, and we can’t wait to see you April 1st and 2nd!

Another great reason to check out the wall? We’re also going to be livetweeting the event! Think of it like your interactive information stand, we’ll keep you updated on speakers, panelists, workshops and more! You’ll want to check back to the screens frequently so you don’t miss a thing, and really get the whole expo experience!

March 28, 2016

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