KY: Hemp Plants Return To Henry Clay's Ashland Estate

[Robert Celt]

Hemp was planted Tuesday at Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate, for the first time in 130 years.

The hemp will be a permanent part of the estate and will be an educational tool, Ashland curator Eric Brooks said.

"There can be no doubt that hemp played a central role in Henry Clay's life and that he was key to the Kentucky industry in the antebellum period," Brooks said. At one time, hemp was one of the state's top cash crops.

Hemp was banned from being grown without a federal permit by the 1970 Controlled Substances Act. Restrictions were loosened by the 2014 farm bill, which approved hemp to be grown for industrial research.

The planting was facilitated by the United Hemp Industries, the Henry Clay Memorial Foundation and the University of Kentucky through the university's industrial hemp research program.

On June 11, the foundation will host Henry Clay's hemp symposium, featuring historical speakers and an educational session about the hemp plants.

UK agronomist Rich Mundell, who helped to plant the hemp, said some of the seeds might sprout as early as Saturday.

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[TorturedSoul]

I am heartened every time I read news about planting hemp in this country - especially in areas, such as Kentucky, that can (IMHO) use more jobs for the residents and money for the economy.

But I am also saddened every time I read news about planting hemp in this country. Most all of us know that our country's founding fathers didn't just use products made from hemp (cannabis) - they grew it. Fast forward to now...

A lot of people celebrated when the 2014 federal Farm Bill allowed entities to once again grow hemp without a permit from the DEA. However, that only holds true IF the entity happens to be a state Department of Agriculture or by a college or a university for academic or agricultural research purposes in a state that maintains its own hemp regulation.

In other words... our fearless leaders feel that - instead of allowing us to grow hemp (call it industrial-use cannabis if you like) for food, clothing, construction, even beauty products - we need to research it.

Meanwhile, millions of dollars of products that are made, partially or wholly, from hemp are imported into this country every year. What is even more ironic is that we actually import (again, millions of dollars' worth of) raw and processed hemp from China, Romania, Hungary, and India; we also import lots of hemp seed and oilcake from Canada.

So... We can import/possess/use products that are made from hemp. We can even import hemp. But the (oft times, struggling) farmers in this country CANNOT grow hemp! The United States currently pays around $20 billion per year to farmers in direct subsidies as "farm income stabilization." That must be less expensive than allowing them to grow, harvest, and sell hemp. It must also be cheaper to import millions of dollars' worth of the stuff than to allow our own farmers to grow it. Ohwaitaminute...

Someone ought to hook a generator up to Jack Herer's body - I bet he's spinning in his grave so fast that one could light up a large city.

"If all fossil fuels and their derivatives, as well as trees for paper and construction were banned in order to save the planet, reverse the Greenhouse Effect and stop deforestation; then there is only one known annually renewable natural resource that is capable of providing the overall majority of the world's paper and textiles; meet all of the world's transportation, industrial and home energy needs, while simultaneously reducing pollution, rebuilding the soil, and cleaning the atmosphere all at the same time... and that substance is -- the same one that did it all before -- Cannabis Hemp... Marijuana!" - Jack Herer (RiP)

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[TorturedSoul]

Hemp Dinner [to be] Served at Ashland['s Henry Clay House]

Hemp was planted Tuesday at Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate, for the first time in 130 years.

On June 11, the foundation will host Henry Clay's hemp symposium, featuring historical speakers and an educational session about the hemp plants.

Hemp Dinner [to be] Served at Ashland['s Henry Clay House]
By Janet Patton
jpatton1@herald-leader.com

Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate, at 120 Sycamore Road, is offering a dinner to celebrate the estate's replanting of hemp, once a key crop for the Kentucky politician known as the "prince of hemp."

The Henry Clay Hemp-Infused Dining Experience will be 6 p.m. June 11, prepared by Azur, featuring ingredients from Hemp Foods America. For $75, you will get a five-course hemp-infused meal, two adult hemp-infused beverages, and a hemp tote bag full of hemp products from sponsors Hemp History Week and Kentucky Hempsters, Alyssa Erickson and Kirsten Bohnert.

The meal will be the culmination of a hemp symposium that day from 1 to 5 p.m. which will feature speakers on the history of hemp, current research on it, and the political side of the story, including Kentucky Agriculture Secretary Ryan Quarles, UK researchers and others.

Seating is limited to 75 for the dinner, which will include bread made with hemp flour and sour cream cornbread with honey butter; quinoa mixed with hemp hearts, fresh strawberries and crumbled goat cheese, tossed in a green chile-peach and hemp oil dressing; hemp seed-crusted chicken topped with golden raisins, in a bourbon and sorghum glaze; handmade hemp flour fettuccine with basil and hemp seed pesto and bluegrass farmers market vegetables and greens tossed in virgin hemp oil with grated Romano. For dessert, there's blueberry sour cream pie with hemp crust topped with hemp dusted whipped cream.

Go to henryclay.org or 859-266-8581, or go by the museum store at the estate.

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