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A Year in Review
A lot can happen in a year. And for an industry in its infancy, the happenings can be fast and furious. As we navigate this evolving landscape, we maintain our vision of becoming world leaders in whole plant utilization for hemp superfoods, CBD and sustainable industrial products.
Media | Hemp Education | Hemp Foods | CBD |
A Better World, Fuelled by Hemp
A Better World, Fuelled by HempTake a look behind the scenes at Blue Sky. What we do. Why we do it and what makes the Blue Sky Difference.
Hemp In The News |
Blue Skies Ahead for Blue Sky
For years, Andrew Potter has felt there were blue skies ahead for industrial hemp.
Potter is the president and CEO of Blue Sky Hemp Ventures Ltd., incorporated in Alberta in 2017 to pursue commercial opportunities for industrial hemp: a strain of the Cannabis sativa plant species that is grown specifically for the many industrial uses of its derived products.
Hemp Foods | Hemp Education | Hemp In The News |
Hemp: The Ultimate Superfood
What if you could add a single, delicious, ingredient to your baked product that would dramatically boost nutritional values, help the environment and satisfy skyrocketing consumer demand? Hemp is that superfood ingredient.
All | Hemp Education | Hemp Foods | CBD | Hemp Fibre |
#HEMP is Trending
After seven decades of prohibition, the world’s oldest industrial crop - hemp - is back in the mainstream, thanks to today’s trends toward sustainability, natural medicine, and plant-based protein.
Hemp Education | Hemp Foods | Hemp In The News |
The Second Coming of the New Billion Dollar Crop
Hemp has been cultivated for millennia with carbon tests dating hemp back to 8,000 BC. In North America, hemp is thought to have arrived with European settlers. During the 17th century, farmers in Virginia, Massachusetts and Connecticut were ordered by law to grow hemp. By the 18th century, a person could be sentenced to jail for not growing hemp. Interestingly, for over many years, hemp was also considered legal tender to pay taxes in America - how times have changed!