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The Indigenous nation will soon have the only facility to create hempcrete in the country
Joey Goodthunder, whose primary job is growing the Lower Sioux Indian Community's hemp, looks over the beginnings of a foundation for a building to house the tribe's processing equipment. (Aaron Nesheim/Grist)
For now, it's only a gaping hole in the ground, 100-by-100 feet, surrounded by farm machinery and bales of hemp on a sandy patch of earth on the Lower Sioux Indian Reservation in southwestern Minnesota.
But when construction is complete next April, the Lower Sioux - also known as part of the Mdewakanton Band of Dakota - will have a 20,000-square-foot manufacturing campus that will allow them to pioneer a green experiment, the first of its kind in the United States.
They will have an integrated vertical operation to grow hemp, process it into insulation called hempcrete, and then build healthy homes with it. Right now, no one in the U.S. does all three.
https://ictnews.org/news/lower-sioux-in-minnesota-building-hemp-homes
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