Healthy Mama Magazine Issue 7 - January 2015 | Page 20

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is one of the oldest cultivated crops and one of the
most misunderstood. This versatile product was
once grown by farmers across Europe and the United States.
Even George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew it and
Benjamin Franklin milled it into paper. Not only can it be used to
make paper, fabric, rope, cooking oil and biofuel, hemp can
also cl