USA Today has an excellent feature on a new Hemp Home builder - Push Design.
Hemp is turning a new leaf. The plant fiber, used to make the sails that took Christopher Columbus' ships to the New World, is now a building material. The hemp home was built for $133 per square foot, not including land and excavation costs, at the top of a mountain.
In Asheville, N.C., a home built with thick hemp walls was completed this summer and two more are in the works. Dozens of hemp homes have been built in Europe in the past two decades, but they're new to the United States, says David Madera, co-founder of Hemp Technologies, a company that supplied the mixture of ground-up hemp stalks, lime and water.
This is a really cool new way to build a sustainable house - check out the entire piece.
