Can Hemp Building Materials Impact Fire Safety? - The High Ground Ep. 29 | Dion MarkGraaff of the U.S. Hemp Building Association

We're heading into fire season in California. Last week, Governor Gavin Newsom declared a statewide emergency and also admitted during a press conference “Let me just make this crystal clear here, we failed to predict and plan for these shortages, and that is unacceptable.” But that doesn't mean that there weren't options. Last week, TRICHOMES editor Rachel Heimann wrote an article tracing the history of hempcrete, a building material made of hemp that's both fireproof and already regularly used in Europe. That being said, hempcrete is rarely used here in the United States. 

On this episode of The High Ground, Jesse Betend talked to Dion Markgraaff. Dion is a board member of the U.S.Hemp Building Association, an organization that is trying to make hempcrete a mainstay of building and construction here in the United States.