Dispatches From the Funky Butte Ranch - Doug Fine

DISPATCHES FROM THE FUNKY BUTTE RANCH Doug Fine’s Award-Winning Debut Feature Documentary AMERICAN HEMP FARMER Available Nationwide This Weekend on PBS American Hemp Farmer Premiering on PBS This Saturday I’m delighted to report that you can watch my rege…

Doug Fine’s Debut Feature Film, AMERICAN HEMP FARMER, wins Best New Mexico Feature Documentary at the 24th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival I’m in “pinch me” mode as my first feature film, AMERICAN HEMP FARMER, won the Best New Mexico Feature Documentary awa…

Doug Fine’s Debut Feature Film, AMERICAN HEMP FARMER, premieres at the 24th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival, and You’re Invited I feel so lucky that the "work” side of my life continues to evolve into new media.

Funky Butte Ranch 9.08.20 A Grower’s Guide to Regenerative Hemp: From Soil to Seed to Sales — Register For Doug’s Hemp Course  The seeds are fattening with Omegas by the day here on the Funky Butte Ranch, which bodes well for nutrient-dense winter superf…

I’m walking on air, for the usual reasons (it’s hemp planting season).

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Order the follow-up to Doug Fine’s previous bestseller HEMP BOUND Here AMERICAN HEMP FARMER would have been in George Washington’s library.

AMERICAN HEMP FARMER is here.

Just before equinox in 2011, I wrote the Dispatch From the Funky Butte Ranch that follows with tongue, I thought, pretty solidly in cheek.

Re-Launching An American Industry is Hard But Vital.

Incredible Oregon hemp body wash from Hemptsy Featured Artisan NGM It was when I saw the first hemp lingerie on the site that I knew, finally, that this Hemptsy dream had become reality.

Here’s the deal: Hemp commerce is exploding.

Monsoon Clouds Build Over New Mexico Copper Mine This Dispatch comes in the form of the guest column I was asked to write for the European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies (ENCOD)’s summer newsletter.

First Legal Hemp Harvest Update American Hemp Is On Its Way to Your Car Battery And Your Bookstore The first digital age domestic hemp crop is being harvested as I write.

Admittedly the competition is weak with only “Erik Estrada Sings the Standards” and “Yo Gabba Gabba On Ice” sharing the road this fall, but you really do want to check out the Hemp Bound live event tour.

AMERICAN HEMP SEEDS ARE GROWING, BUT… Nothing like holding the Dutch hemp fiber that goes into Mercedes door panels (fresh off the factory floor, [above], they were silky soft yet stronger than steel) to make an investigative-minded fellow not just smile…

“Hemp Bound is the best book of the year…Doug Fine has created a blueprint for the America of the future.”

Multi-Species Appreciation For Hemp Bound’s Cover I’m writing these words ten minutes after President Obama has legalized hemp.

I’m probably one of only a handful of TED fans (let alone speakers) who has slept outside with his goats to protect them from coyotes like some kind of crunchy Elmer Fudd.

I’m on my yucca-framed porch swing sipping an organic Orange Julius and watching an 8,500-acre wildfire creep towards me here on the Funky Butte Ranch.