Good deal on hemp paper?
Does anyone here know where I can get a good deal on a pack of hemp computer paper (8.5 x 11)? Websites where I can buy it online would be awesome, thank you.
Hemp is a poster boy for some environmentalists, much as ethanol was until recently. Hemp, like corn for ethanol, uses up good farm land that is needed to feed people. Growing hemp on farm land allows us to avoid growing trees on land the is not suitable for farm land. But cutting trees for paper is a renewable process just as hemp is. When you harvest hemp it is paper just like a harvested tree is.
The advantage to using trees is that we do not need to harvest them for a couple decades at a time.
Claims are made of the great food quality of hemp seed. Well, it is very good. but it is not better than millet if one can grow millet. Only where millet is not practical should we grow hemp for food. (Hemp and millet require the same heavy supply of plant nutrient as millet, so they do not fit well together in a rotation.)
We have a bit of hemp paper in Canada, but not much. It is too much in demand for clothing.