True environmental sustainability means more than just recycling or taking your green bags to the grocery store. Healing the earth means healing the soil itself, reducing greenhouse gases, and laying down strong roots. There is one crop that is doing all three, while also growing a new green industry.
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Healing the Earth: How CBD Farming Is Renewing the Environment
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CBD Can Make Farming More Sustainable. Here’s How.
In 2021, American consumers have more information and resources than ever at their fingertips. They can research where the fruits and vegetables in their grocery were grown, if the farm is abiding by fair labor practices, and if the crops were grown organically. They want to know the environmental impact of their choices and feel good about supporting sustainable farming. There is one vital tool available to farmers that is sometimes left out of conversations about sustainability or drowned out by hot topics like pesticides. It is all-natural and requires a return to traditional farming practices, and hemp will play a key role.
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Growing Organic: A Higher Quality Hemp
What does it mean to grow organic? It all comes down to process and expecting higher standards of growing every step of the way. The seeds cannot be genetically modified, and they have to put safeguards in place so that the farm and soil are protected from prohibited substances or genetically modified seeds. The ground where they are planted needs to be free of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides for three whole years prior to any harvest.
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