I hope you are well at this time, and I wanted to share with you some of our thinking here at Winona’s Hemp and Heritage Farm, and pray that we will all work together for that future that we see
Crisis is opportunity. The Chinese characters for crisis are 危机“wēijī,” danger and opportunity. That’s now. Take a breath, maybe look at the night sky and see stars clearly. Enjoy this moment and breathe while Mother Earth gets a rest from our closed factories.
Let’s be better when we come out of this cluster of crises. Let’s appreciate each other, localize our economy, get cleaner, healthier, and grow some victory gardens of this millennium. Let’s continue to shut down dirty industries. Indeed, that’s our dream at Winona’s Hemp. Rowen White, the Seed Saver, calls them Resilience Gardens. With allies like the Indigenous Seed Savers, we are starting seeds.
Many of them. Nationally, seed sales are rocketing and people understand that localizing is an essential part to solving these world problems.
Early in February, Winona's Hemp had the privilege of meeting our long time friends Earl Tulley and Teresa Juarenz with their new Family Owned Hemp Farm Enterprise, ‘Chimayó Hemp Enterprise,’ in Chimayó, New Mexico.
This week our hemp rope making machine arrived from China, we built the frame for our new “ high tunnel” a Waaginoogin, and we made the press- big time; both the Star Tribune and the cover of Hemp Magazine. We’re proud of our work and wanted to share all of this with you.
Winona’s Hemp & Heritage Farm is coming alive building the next economy: "I have made a commitment to grow the future, to grow hope. Here at Omaa Akiing ... we are doing that." Join us!
This spring, after gathering on the White Earth Indian Reservation in northwestern Minnesota and then in Colorado, tribal “hempsters” are working toward a renaissance of the plant that once clothed much of Europe and North America. Tribal hemp growers from the Meskwaki, Lakota, Menominee, Mandan, Hidatsa, Colville and other Native nations are planting the seeds of a new economy—responding with an innovative and holistic approach to the many challenges Native and non-Native communities face.
