Hemp is one of the most effective carbon sequestering plants, removing more carbon than trees per acre. Growing hemp will allow Sacred Farms to earn Carbon Credits.

In 2017, Carbon Credits were trading at $17 per ton. Today, that price has jumped to approximately $30-$40 per ton, with all indications that it will increase even further.

Sacred Farms will seek Carbon Credit certification once a significant acreage of Hemp is planted and get detailed numbers of how much Carbon Credit Sacred Farms will earn per acre.

According to a Copenhagen research, in general, 1 acre of Hemp removed approximately 10 tons of carbon per life-cycle to harvest. With our Hemp genetics, we will be able to plant four times per year. That means, for each acre of Sacred Farms Hemp, we will be able to remove approximately 40 tons of Carbon.

With a estimated Carbon Credit value pf $45 per ton, Sacred Farm can potentially earn $1,800 per acre annually, which will offset the cost of farming. Essentially, farming Hemp may eventually be free.

Hemp Plastic has been around for over a hundred years but new technology has not been created or utilized for mass production until Hemp was descheduled as a controlled substance. In fact, Ford built a car with the body panels and trim parts from hemp plastics in 1940.

Hemp Plastic is made from plant cellulose, similar to how petroleum plastic is made from polymers, but Hemp Plastic is more efficient to produce. Hemp is made of 60-70% cellulose, so it has a higher yield.

Main benefits of Hemp Plastic are that it is very easy to recycle and can be highly biodegradable. A Hemp Plastic bottle can biodegrade completely in less than 3 months. However, when treated, Hemp Plastic can be highly durable to stress and is 3 times stiffer than petroleum plastics. Unlike petroleum plastics, Hemp Plastic contains no harmful chemicals and the manufacturing process has far less environmental impact.

Sacred Farms will be the first to have farming capacity to create enough hemp biomass to supply its own Hemp Plastic manufacturing to start the process of replacing petroleum plastics.

While this is still early in its development, hemp fiber has been formed and treated to behave like graphene and lithium cells, with some researchers finding that hemp performed better in capacity, rechargeability, and discharge. Hemp bark can be treated to act as a conductor and replace graphene in a superconductor or battery. Further research is needed to incorporate the hemp fiber into current battery and supercapacitor technologies to improve their performances. However, in laboratory conditions, batteries were able to be recharged faster than current lithium ion batteries.

Bio-Ethanol processing is already established. Corn has been the primary plant matter used to produce Bio-Ethanol; however, corn is also a vital food source and diverting it for ethanol resulted in increased food prices. Coupled with the fact that corn requires more water and costs more to cultivate than Hemp, it is clear that the future of Bio-Ethanol is Hemp.

Virtually the same technique and equipment can be used to process Hemp as it is for corn. Currently, bio-ethanol is approximately $2 per gallon, limited by the availability of corn. With the introduction of Hemp Bio-Ethanol, the price should plummet. This will lower the price of E85 fuels, increasing the demands for flex-fuel vehicles and other power consuming goods that can use Bio-Ethanol.

Similar to Bio-Ethanol, Bio-Diesel is long established in the market, although its acceptance by major manufacturers is mixed. Some vehicle manufacturers restrict the use of bio-diesels in their engines sometimes between 5% and 20% bio-diesel to petroleum- diesel ratio. Sacred Farms will continue to monitor the marketability of bio-diesels.

Honda, GM, Hyundai, and Toyota already have working hydrogen fuel cells. Mercedes, Volkswagen, Mazda, and several other companies are working on their own. However, Sacred Farms believes there is a better application. Replace hydrogen with bio- ethanol. Hydrogen is highly flammable, kept at 10,000 PSI, and is expensive to produce. Bio- ethanol is a very stable liquid and less flammable than gasoline, and Sacred Farms intends on making it readily available.

Direct Ethanol Fuel Cells (DEFC) work similar to how Hydrogen Fuel Cells work, without the drawbacks and limitations of using Hydrogen. DEFC emits very low levels of carbon dioxide from the use of Bio-Ethanol; however, that amount will be offset by the carbon dioxide absorbed during Hemp cultivation. Currently no large corporation is publicly working on DEFC for consumer applications so there have been few innovations, which is why Sacred Farms strives to be the first to perfect and bring DEFC to the U.S. market.

DEFC can work safely to power a house or building. Sacred Farms will build 20kW DEFC units to power an entire single family home and multiple DEFC units to power larger structures. Ethanol fuel storage tanks may be installed discretely on the side or back of the structure and delivery of the ethanol can be made by ethanol fuel trucks by schedule.

DEFC can work safely to power and recharge an electric vehicle. Similar to how a gasoline engine charges the battery and powers the electric motors of the Chevrolet Volt, a DEFC can charge the battery and power the electric motor while the vehicle is driven. A DEFC unit with a 5 gallon Bio-Ethanol tank mounted in the front trunk of a Tesla Model S should be able to double the range. The goal would be to drive from San Francisco to San Diego and still have some Bio-Ethanol and some charge in the battery remaining.

Some of the challenges will include finding an alternative to the current technology of using a platinum catalyst with a lower cost alternative and increasing efficiency to catch up to the improvements made to hydrogen fuel cells.

Hemp hurds can be mixed with other based materials to create a lighter concrete-like building material. Generically marketed as “Hempcrete,” this material is easier to work with in construction as it is not as heavy or brittle as concrete and does not need expansion joints. Also unlike traditional concrete, Hempcrete has great thermal and moisture insulation properties.

Hemp hurds can also be manufactured to replace plywood and other sheathing materials, while Hemp stalk of certain larger strains can also replace wood for framing, flooring and cabinetry. Hemp can replace lumber in virtually all aspects of construction so we can drastically reduce the demands to cut down trees in our forests and leave them to do what nature intended. The Hemp wood materials also have superior insulating and moisture resistant properties compared to lumber wood materials.

Also incorporating Hemp plastics where applicable, an entire building can be constructed with a huge majority of the materials made out of Hemp products. All of the hemp-based materials have insultation and moisture control properties, requiring less or no chemically manufactured insulation materials, such as fiberglass or foam, making hemp-based structures more efficient with less impact on the environment.

The nutritional value of hemp seed is well known. They are high in protein, omega 3, vitamins, phosphorous, magnesium, zinc, and other important nutrients, while being low in harmful fats. Hemp seeds can be used to make everything from oil, milk, protein bars, bread, pasta, and other healthy foods.

While hemp-based foods are already prevalent on the market, they tend to be significantly more expensive and mostly available in upscale markets, due to the scarcity of Hemp in the US on an agricultural level. Sacred Farm’s strategy to mass produce hemp plant will help lower the unit cost of hemp seeds and make hemp-based foods a viable source throughout the country for everyone.