A Longitudinal Journey Through Chile
The first ‘documented’ cultivation of hemp in the New World by the Europeans was in 1545 in the Quillota Valley, near the city of Santiago in Chile.
It has been continuously grown ever since in Chile, making this 1922 photograph interesting. That is if you find 400 year old isolated European hemp genetics grown in the new world interesting…
National Geographic, Sept 1922, Article: A Longitudinal Journey Through Chile
Raw Photo from 1922 in Chile
September 1922, Aconcagua Valley, Chile — A native farmer poses in his large hemp field — Image by © Publishers Photo Service Inc/National Geographic Society/Corbis