Industrial Hemp: UK Crop 2022

Our hemp seeds being drilled earlier this year. You can already see the plants germinating with green shoots sprouting across the fields. In the space of 3-4 months the plants will be well over 10 feet in height before time of harvest.

A year on from our talk at London Climate Action Week, our plans are in full motion to scale industrial hemp, a timely opportunity for UK farming as well as a carbon negative solution for industry. Introducing smart farming techniques to optimise yield and scale production in a replicable way are some of the innovations we are developing for our business. We started building this roadmap 3 years ago, de-risking plans across the full supply chain. Our operations are growing to meet the industry-led demand that we have secured across several industries - construction, energy and food.

What we are seeing is the start of a new green industrial revolution where the raw materials we need to survive, to eat, power our cities and house us need to be changed from the fossil fuels that we rely on today. In fact, Deloitte in their eye-opening 2022 Turning Point analysis predicts a US $178 trillion cost to the global economy by 2070 if climate change is left unchecked. This is the challenge we are looking to meet through the development of our biorefinery technology to unlock meaningful change in how we move forward, change underpinned by technology and responsible decision-making.

Hemp is the novel base raw material for a range of carbon neutral or negative substitutes for fossil fuel products and unlike many of the solutions used today that just slow down the catastrophic impacts of climate change, hemp has the ability to reverse it. And unlike some of the promising solutions being worked on for the future, this solution is available today!