Hempitecture | Tommy Gibbons | Ketchum, Idaho

Happy to talk about any Hemp building topics or direction the conversation goes.I call my listeners Green Future Growers. I had a guest on the east side of Montana, and one of the things he talked about the importance of having a market ahead of time. And then my husband and I have always been interested in building a hemp house, or straw bale house but hempcrete would be even better.Yeah it totally would and it's exciting all the different applications of hemp being used across the United States. For that eastern Montana farmer what he said was spot on.You gotta have an idea of where the plants are gonna end up and who is going to buy it and using it for what purpose before you even start farming.Mike said you have to interview these guys and here is Tommy Gibbons to talk to us today from Hempitecture! Part of me feels like I have been waiting for this for so long, I thought this would pass back in the 1990's and I talked to Tara Caton last year at the Rodale Institute and I was like what is going on in our country finally?Tell us a little about yourself.There’s so much to tell about our businesspeople in the 90s who have been fighting this battle, it's been an accumulative effort and truly the future is ahead of us and that’s what we look towardsWe are HempitectureKetchum Idahosun valley ski resort2014built the first commercial hemp concretewe make building with hemp easyconsult on different projectstrain people how to build with materialssell building materialssellcome to your job site and professionally install your hemp insulation products Just hempcrete and hemp wool now but who knows where it's gonna go!woolreally exciting!Maybe it was 2014. I remember going to this business thing. Our Senator Jon Tester, is actually one of those Eastern Montana farmers. He wanted to pass a hemp bill, but he said the problem was the police not being able to tell the difference between a hemp plant and a cannabis plant and I thought that was lame because for me, I always think that any cannabis farmer is not going to let any hemp seeds near their cannabis so they are going to regulate it themselves in a way. But that is sort of off topic.common interest incultivate growYoure just allowed to transportpeople didn’t feel they could tell the difference between marijuana flower passing through the state and hemp flowers. differencethreshold 05THC send out for testingIdaho police didn’t feel like they should pay, or didn't have the sources in placeultimatelyThere is all this confusion about what is hemp and what is marijuana, but does come down to the THC content.The hemp we use for building that looks nothing like smokable0% THC contentstems or fibersSo we don’t bump too much into that problem, luckily now things are legal, the cultivation and transportation is legalrecentlyin some states the battle persists and it was very important if it was So where do you get your hemp then from local people in Idaho?No we don't. They are still not growing in Idaho.our current supplier s out of quebecWe've had suppliers more local likekentucky in the USuntil this yearmore growersand need to processorsinner core, needs to be chopped up, then it needs to be bagged2 phases to the materialsuse them forgrow themprocess theminner wooden core of the industrialhemp hurdhemp core bags are mixed with a lime binderhemp crete materialtakes the shape of your wallthermal and moisture regulatorplant to walltransitionstage might be therea lot of growers are growing for cbd and you can’t use the left over biomass from the plant for building at least at this current timeCBD is a short bushy plantindustrial hemp for building is a very fast bamboo like cultivars of hempIT's really controlled by how you sow the seeds if you give it room it will branch out wide it will grow out to flower if you plant them more intensely it will grow the long fiberlong stemYou might know more then me.It's the Tara Caton down at the Rodale Institute in Pennsilvania. So if you don't know they have been running the test plot comparing organic practices side by side vs conventional methods. She said the good thing for them, the first year they used it for a cover crop. The rotation was soy beans and where the conventional crop was growing the soy beans couldn't take the wet season that came that spring but the soy beans that were grown where the hemp had the long tap root were able to go to market.collect a lot of biomass about that then meget someone from the rodale institute at our summitagain this year in 2020we can include them next timeresearching regenerative sustainable farmingformalities and things that stand in the wayplant that is part of human historylonger then this government hasso that was a penalized wall systemprefabricated constructed in that naturehemp building20-30 years in France and the UK even Australianew to the USunfamiliarity with growing hempcommercial hemp build in 2014largest hempcrete structurebellingham Washingtonhighland hemp house4 more projectPrincetonIdahofirst housespray hempcreteincrease labor ski cabin near us in Idahopaneled where we poured the hempsummit we had in Octattended by all thees internationalnetworked and collaboratedhuge step forward for the people in our industryhemp woolcultivar fiber rather then the shivwould with polyester8%fiber bat insulationmineral woolnontoxiccarbon negativeenvironmentally friendlydirect competitormore traditionalhemp cretestraw-balebuilding strategyno vapor barrierother breathable finishesfrom insiderunning electrical concretearen’t ready to make that stephemp producedisperse that heat at nightdown jacketlong lasting plant based materialnoteworthy qualityit issourced from Quebec as wellamerican distributor for this companytake up the volume west of the USa lot of our projects shipping more then the materialslight premiumcheapest fiberglasas hemp sources gets more abundantour goal is to make this extremely cost competitiveyeah! it was a carcinogen up until 2011removedanyone who has installed fiberglasscan cause rashing not made from a regenerative sdepletingno carbon annually regrowing hemptaking that volume of massive carboncoming from a renewable resourcethat’s what excites peoplelowest carbon impact possiblehome sickenssick house syndrome new materials can potentially make them sicklooking to try something newbuilding materialseffect on their environmentdifferent directionsgrew up in NJmaking examples of themselvesdoing work that they want change that they want to see in societysmall parttypes of building materialsmore sustainable optionsmovements consumer choicescareer choicesthink about the transition to different dietsmeat based to plant basedpurchased in mass in my demographicuses electricitywe don’t want coalwe care what turns on our lightssolar hydroless impactful sourceupbringing and knowledgegenerations that raised ushuman growth and wellbeing of Th. planetcoincideGetting involved in a stem programopen mindedmillennials working on organic farmshome builder workshopmentioned it as a launched a Kickstarterfirst commercial hemp building projectforwardgrowth taggreat for hempitecturelos angelosvenice beach cawell renowneddesigned by go onsiteput in the hemp woolphotographshining example of it in usecontractor training sessionin our officesinhousemake hemp insulationtrain people up until this pointfebruaryaustin texasthermal breakingconversations every day with people who are building their dream househemp creteyesif you are designing you can use whatever materialshow are these materials gonna fit togethermore depth to their wallinsulation value per inch is lesshow hot or coldmoisture thermal bridgingwhen you build a monolith wallthermal massable to regulate the heat more effectivelystandard per inchdeep walls6-12 inchesthat is set by code based on R valuehemp wool doesn’t have that problemput it between a 4inch sone funny anecdotein that school in Atown is called Asbestosminegot biggerAsbestosthey’ve kind of shut down production theregovernmentsponsored the creating of a hemp building now this townre-birthed this townwww.hemparchitecture hempLet’s take a minute to thank our sponsors and affiliate linksPlease support us on Patreon so we can keep the show up on the internet. 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