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This is a directory of Primary and Secondary hempseed product processors and marketers globally. Not all of them are members of the HFA and no one paid to be on this list. HFA members are in bold. If you have...

Hemp Food AssociationColorado, USA To:[email protected]@help.senate.gov August 17, 2023 Dear Honorable Representatives and Senators— The Hemp Food Association is the only trade group dedicated to food made from the Hempseed (grain) and has been since 1998. I am the founder and...

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The FDA is proposing a new “healthy” claim on the labels of foods, in order to socially engineer consumers to eat “better.” It is also considering an official “FDA Healthy” logo to be used on labels, a first for the...

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Here are the relative values of different applications for 750 tons of hempseed, or about 1,000 acres worth. From $1,050,000 to $72,000,000:...

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“Diverting about 50% of current corn, wheat, and rice stalks to stalk cellulosic processing and then into ethanol to SAF biofuels was sufficient to meet global peak demand for all of commercial and generation aviation. No food required. No new...

Food from the seed is the hemp industry’s first billion-dollar segment and what has driven the planting of vast acreages in Canada and elsewhere; hemp food sales have been the bulk of the industry for decades. Totally legal to FDA...

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A big part of the successful sales and new customer onboarding process is that of managing their expectations. It might even be the most critical factor between success and failure. You want what they think is going to happen to...

How did hemp food go from zero to hero in just twenty years, 90% of Canadian hemp and hemp’s first billion-dollar industry? It wasn’t by accident or a fluke, but due to a concerted campaign by advertising, PR, and food...

In September 1996 a few hempsters were asked to go to Window Rock in the Navajo Nation. Woody Harrelson, Chris Boucher, Michael Myers, Jim Robinson and I (Richard Rose) traveled there for 3 days, on our dime and at Christie...

When I was running fast-growing Rella Good Cheese Co. (#281 on the Inc. 500 in 1993, known then as “Sharon’s Finest”), I realized some wholesale customers were a delight and some were a total Pain In The Ass, yet they both were...

ko•anˈkōän/Noun, a paradoxical anecdote or riddle. Starting in 1994, my professional mission was to keep undeclared, undisclosed Cannabinoids out of our commercial foods, while starting what was the emerging hemp food industry. Knowing consumer confidence in our food was paramount...

Producing aseptic hemp milk is an extremely technical process using highly-trained technicians and very expensive equipment. The minimum printing runs for packaging are well into six-figures. It’s an expensive, difficult project. To help you, I’ve posted my notes here regarding...

From HFA member Thatcher Michelsen: Attention foodies and adventure seekers! Get ready for a culinary experience like no other at the Ekumal Hotel in Akumal, Mexico. Join us on January 19th for a one-of-a-kind 5-course vegetarian gourmet dinner party in...

From long-time Friend of the Seed, vegan chef extraordinaire Christina Pirello about her vegan cooking show, Christina Cooks, winner of an Emmy it’s first year despite competition from Martha Stewart: Well, kids, it’s that time of year. A new series...

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After being on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing companies in 1993, Inc. did a follow-up story including Richard Rose: Sure, these CEOs still substitute imagination, know-how, and effort for capital. Sometimes. Once a bootstrapper, always a bootstrapper? Not quite. If you’re going to...

This is the press release I sent to HIA members in 1998 to encourage them to get into hemp foods, cheaply and easily and with our full marketing support, even licensing our trademark HempNut to them for the nominal sum...

In the years 1994-2002, I pivoted my award-winning food marketing company from soyfoods to hempseed. Introduced the first perishable and frozen hemp foods in 1994, sold coast-to-coast in the U.S. and Canada. They were called HempRella cheese alternative and the vegan Hempeh...

The Health and Harmony Festival started in 1978, a 3-day hippie extravaganza at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa which typically saw 15,000 attendees. It set the stage for years later when the Emerald Cup and House of Flowers marijuana festivals started...

The HempNut Story           We believe HempNut is the greatest invention to happen to hempseed ever!  Most people agree that the outer shell is not very tasty, more for birds than for humans.  It’s dirty, with typical field contaminants such as...

Hawaii is the hardest state in the US to develop hemp, in a 0.3% max THC environment. That’s why it lost half of its R&D hemp crop one year. It was expected, even Colorado and Kentucky lose acres to noncompliant hemp. That...

Comments of Richard Rose on the Proposed Standard of Identity for Primary Hempseed Products ASTM Subcommittee D.37.91 is considering primary hemp product standards of identity. The following is in reference to “hempseed” (one word) for technical uses and “hemp seed” (two...

Victory Hemp Foods has asked everyone to comment on the United States Pharmacopeia Convention’s Monographs for Hemp Seed-Based Ingredients. From Victory: “Call to Action: Submit Your Comments on the FCC Monographs for Hemp Seed-Based Ingredients You can support moving the hemp grain industry forward...

This location in Olten Switzerland was going to be a HempNut Café, thousands walked past it daily. But that was the year the U.S. hemp food industry came under attack from within by what I called “The Suits.” They eventually...

In 1980 many vegetarian entrepreneurs had a collective vision inspired by the Book of Tofu (William Shurtleff and Akiko Aoyagi). Some of us went on to create Silk soymilk, Westbrae tofu, and TofuRella cheese alternative. Small village-style tofu shops, thousands...

In 1998 at the North American Industrial Hemp Council (NAIHC ) conference, Richard Rose was on a panel with Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop which was the first large multi-national company to use hempseed oil in its products...