The Regenerative Entrepreneur: Ready to Join the Independent Farming Renaissance? Here are The Dos and Don’ts of Creating a Farm-to-Table Hemp Product
This year’s keynote, a wild and funny visual storytelling ride as always, will draw on what Doug has learned from marketing a Farm-to-Table hemp product of his own group’s (Hemp in Hemp), and also helping the Colville Tribe launch theirs (roasted hemp seeds), plus a cooperative hemp project in the works in Hawaii. It will cover how to incorporate the spiritual, ethical and soil-building sides of the movement into the bottom line plans for any entity. From acquiring genetics and soil preparation through harvest, processing, packaging and marketing, Doug brings his comedic investigative journalism to what we think will be a highly memorable (and, especially for newcomers, a practical) keynote.
About: Doug Fine is one of the world’s pioneer voices in cannabis/hemp and regenerative farming. An award-winning culture and climate correspondent on five continents, a repeat Conan and Tonight Show guest, and a genuine Rugged Individualist, he is also a solar-powered goat herder, hemp farmer/entrepreneur, and bestselling author of books like Hemp Bound (a must-read for anyone entering the industry), Too High to Fail, Farewell, My Subaru, Not Really An Alaskan Mountain Man, and, most recently, First Legal Harvest, which was printed on hemp paper.
Willie Nelson calls Doug’s work “a blueprint for the America of the future.” The Washington Post says, “Fine is a storyteller in the mold of Douglas Adams.”
In the hemp sphere, Doug is a research collaborator with the University of Hawaii hemp seed development project, he is marketing a farm-to-table hemp product that he helped grow, and is lead consultant for the first federally permitted Native American hemp project, with the Colville Tribe. Still, he finds helping re-launch humanity’s longest-utilized plant easy compared to homeschooling his (human) kids and outsmarting his (goat) kids.
Doug is a regular on National Public Radio, he has testified before the United Nations on cannabis legalization, and has spoken of the importance of Digital Age Goatherding in a TED Talk. Info and bookings: http://dougfine.com/media-appearances/ Instagram/Twitter: @organiccowboy
