STRIVING FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
Industrial Hemp Products and Processed Materials
Earth merchant offers an innovative, full-service business solution for industrial hemp products and processed materials.
We are forging a transparent hemp building product, processed materials and a carbon capturing platform to establish a robust network of growers, builders, and innovators in the hemp fiber industry.
Our purpose is to capture carbon by growing, processing, and manufacturing hemp building products for the health and wellbeing of future generations and the planet.
Your Clean Building Dreams Are Now!
No more waiting for alternative building bricks. Our hempcrete bricks are ready for sale to build your dream home or ADU.
When you build with our Ologybrick you build with non toxic bricks that stand the test of time, are sustainable, and capture carbon. Here’s why building with our bricks is building better:
Benefits of Hempcrete:
- Sequesters Carbon
- Superior Thermal Resistance (insulation)
- Energy Efficient
- Naturally Non Toxic
- Improved Indoor Air Quality
- Pest Resistant
- Water and Flame Resistant
- Lightweight and breathable
- Lasts for 100’s of years
Why Manufacturers Should Choose Industrial Hemp:
- Hemp is a highly prized renewable resource, and is easily grown and cultivated. This provides sustainable opportunity to growers in depressed economic regions, providing jobs and stability to the region.
- Hemp is vital to help reduce pollutants. The plants naturally improve soil quality and conserve precious water resources.
- Industrial hemp has the ability to separate and bind carbon dioxide permanently into the materials it is manufactured into.
- Accredited as a generator of carbon credits, Industrial Hemp is an attractive solution to manufacturers and growers.
Carbon Credit Market Platform
Carbon Credits are a tradable commodity on a volunteer basis. It’s value comes from proven data collection to determine the quantity of carbon sequestered. Our platform’s algorithm calculates the total amount sequestered by individual farms, our manufactured products, and build structures. Credits harvested are then stored and sold on the voluntary market.
Earth Merchant Farmer Network certified partners use our platform to track carbon credits. This platform uses documented, cutting edge data acquisition to track carbon sequestration for carbon credits, training, and Farm Network support systems. We handle the entire process from growth to payment.
We Help You Monetize Carbon Smart Farming
Earth Merchant is competing for the XPrize global carbon capture competition. Having already been awarded an EPA grant to manufacture industrial hemp bricks for architectural purposes, Earth Merchant is also entering our patented hemp based OlogyBrick in the competition to capture carbon. Follow us on social media to stay up to date on our competition status!
IT’S TIME TO SWITCH TO HEMP
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates the need at 10 gigatons of net CO2 removal per year by the year 2050. As governments, companies, investors, and entrepreneurs make plans to meet this challenge, we will need a range of carbon removal solutions to be proven through demonstration and deployment to complement work that is already underway.
As a low fertilizer and zero pesticide/herbicide crop, with little management input and a fraction of water, the carbon emissions of hemp cultivation is well below the average. It is a known fact that growing hemp helps and nurtures the soil, even remediates it, and that it sequesters CO2 from the atmosphere with its fast growth.
Industrial hemp has been scientifically proven to absorb more CO2 per hectare than any forest or commercial crop and is therefore the ideal lower cost and risk carbon sink. Trees can take 100 years to grow to maturity while sequestering carbon. We need the trees and more carbon solutions specifically Hemp, that can be planted and harvest 1-2 times per year.
Forbes recently reported that more than 50,000 products are currently made with hemp. No other plant on the planet comes even close to having the number of uses that hemp does.
Seed to Shelf: Hemp Innovation and Impact
Our mission is to create a transparent supply chain of hemp building products, processed materials and carbon capturing technology via a proprietary digital platform.
These hemp based products will provide sustainable housing materials and a robust supply of processed raw materials for other manufacturers and innovators who aim to directly impact the climate crisis.
The consistent and scalable supply chain will be driven by our farmers and processors networked by regional locations, further mitigating carbon output by growing, processing and manufacturing locally.
Our vision is supported by our diverse digital platform to track carbon credit sequestration, trading of hemp commodities and the Earth Merchant Farmer Network support systems.
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OTHER WAYS WE CAN USE HEMP
TO SUSTAIN OUR PLANET
Hemp Bast Fibers
Bast fibers are plant-based natural fibers found in crops like industrial hemp.
The growth cycle of an annual hemp crop is as little as 100 days.
Hemp bast fibers can be used in a variety of applications such as paper, textiles, composites, and many more.
The benefits include lighter product weight, reduced energy usage, and more environmentally friendly manufacturing footprint.
Hemp Hurd
Hemp hurd can be used as a green building material in hempcrete, mulch, ceilings, and tiles.
It can be use to make a construction board like particleboard.
Contractors use it as a filler. It’s a naturally biodegradable product and is great for sustainable housing and biodegradable building structures.
This versatile product can be used in numerous ways.
Hemp Seed
Hemp seeds are a rich source of nutrients. Part of the hemp plant, these seeds are technically a nut that can be eaten raw or used to make milk, oil, cheese substitutes, or protein powder.
They are an excellent source of plant-based protein. They contain all nine essential amino acids, and research suggests that hemp’s protein content is well-absorbed into our bodies.
Hemp seeds’ health benefits are expansive.
At Earth Merchant, honesty, integrity, and respect are embedded in everything we do. We work with suppliers and other partners who prioritize the same philosophy in the operation and management of their businesses. That means we expect all of our partners to comply with all applicable regulations and laws of the United States as well as the countries where goods are manufactured or exported. We will not partner with businesses that employ involuntary labor of any kind, and work in accordance with the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010.
