Carbon-negative, well-insulated, sustainable, inexpensive and built to last — homes built with hempcrete look to be the sensible, greener alternative to traditional houses built with modern building materials. Dash Hemp and Tiny Hemp Homes have partnered to give a hands-on, two-day educational event led by hempcrete expert Wade Atteberry for those interested in learning how to build with the all-natural material.
The workshop will be held in Bonny Doon, California, on August 22-23. Participants will work on a round house built by Dash Hemp.
“We’re going to go do the hempcrete insulation on the inside of it and all the way around it,” Atteberry says. “We’re going to mix up hempcrete, which is basically hemp hurd and lime and water, kind of like a rice crispy treat mix, and then we pack that in the walls and pull the forms.”
Atteberry has been working in hemp for nearly 50 years and in hempcrete specifically for the past 14 years. He says the U.S. is about 30 years behind the rest of the world in adopting hempcrete as a building material but believes that the country is now hitting a tipping point as many are seeking sustainable and less expensive alternatives to traditional housing.
“‘We can build our way out of the CO2 climate crisis,’ that’s my company motto,” he says. “We just need to teach the next generation how to fix what we did. We screwed this planet up pretty hard, but I can show you how to fix it.”
To learn more and register for the workshop visit: https://www.dashhemp.com/product/hempcrete-workshop-with-wade-atteberry/
