STANDING in a quiet field a Home Office-mandated distance from the road, thousands of hemp plants tower above my head, thriving in this warm…
Hemp can be used for a wide variety of products - from food and textiles to medicine and cosmetics
It was only in 1928 that hemp production was banned in the UK, following the League of Nations International Convention relating to Dangerous Drugs, the gentle herb being caught up by rules designed to control its more potent and exotic cousin, marijuana.After almost a century of being forced out of our fields, hemp is back – and deliciously so!
“People who don’t eat fish are often deficient in Omega-3 but just one dessertspoonful of hemp oil a day will give them the recommended daily requirement. It is loaded with Vitamin E and is a natural anti-inflammatory. As we savour the lentil soup and bread , the talk is all about the work the team are doing to make Scotland’s diet healthier, locally sourced and sustainable.Professor Wendy Russell is part of the Food Security and Supply Taskforce set up by the Scottish Government last year to help get us through myriad issues, with the climate emergency, soil health, biodiversity collapse, and global conflicts posing serious challenges to the food available to us.
“When we’re thinking about changing people’s diet, it’s really important that we understand how food will contribute to this,” Russell explains. “Hemp is probably the most important crop we could grow in Scotland. We have run human studies looking at the health benefits of hemp and it is really superior to rapeseed and olive oil. We’d really like to see people using it as their oil of choice.
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