Southern Minnesota tribal community is building homes with homegrown hemp materials
The Lower Sioux Indian Community, near Morton, Minn., has a little more than 1,100 residents and 1,473 acres of mostly sandy soil, but it could soon lead the nation in production of hemp-infused construction materials.
Construction is underway at the Lower Sioux Community, also known as the Mdewakanton Tribal Reservation, on a 20,000-sq-ft manufacturing campus in Redwood County, Minn. The Lower Sioux are already growing hemp on their acreage and plan to process it into a construction material made of lime, hemp and water called hempcrete. They plan to use hempcrete to build homes with it for members of the tribe.
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https://www.enr.com/articles/58030-lower-sioux-developing-first-us-hempcrete-production-facility
