Selection of Hemp for Seed, preWW2

‘Selection of hemp for seed’ (Selezione canaponi per semi).   Bentivoglio, Italy   pre WW2 (1930/40’s)  

Hemp Trading Card, 1900

Hemp trading card made by the French chocolate company ‘Chocolat Poulain’ from their series entitled Useful Plants (Les plantes utiles),  France 1900     Industrial Useful Plants Hemp Plant of the family Ulmaceae, which is believed to be native to Read More …

Teach the Children, 1926

cover Ivan Novikov – Konopel-Konopelka ‘Hemp – Cannabis’ (New Children’s Library, poems for children) 1926 Teach the Children Not too long after the end of World War 1, Russian Ivan Novikov released his new children’s book of poems. The Russian Read More …

The Hemp Seed Halloween Spell

The Hemp Seed Halloween Spell This Halloween anyone can find their one true love, no need for that high priced party you only need a pocket full of hemp seed! Tam O’Shanter and the Witches, illustration by John Faed to Read More …

Easter in Full Swing

“So high, the highest Hemp” -‘Big Hemp’ Slavic Easter song   Family around the swing, 1890’s     Easter in Full Swing Across the world families wake Easter morning to hunt for eggs with a huge meal to follow, sliding Read More …

Cohoon’s Broadcast Seed Sower, 1862

  Cohoon’s Broadcast Seed Sower For Sowing Wheat, Hemp, Grass, Oats, Barley, Seeds & More “It saves four – Fifths of the labor and time – enables anyone, with a little experience, to sow with perfect regularity… This Machine is Read More …

The Water Poet Gushes, 1620

“Here is Labor, Profit, Clothing, Pleasure, Food, Navigation: Divinity, Poetry, the liberal Arts, Arm’s, Virtues defense, Vices offense, a true mans protection, a Thief’s execution. Here is mirth and matter all beaten out of this small Seed.” -John Taylor, 1620 Read More …

Hemp Seed Soup for the Soul

Viejos comiendo sopa (Two Old Men Eating Soup), by Francisco Goya 1819-1823   Hemp Seed Soup for the Soul: A Christmas Eve Classic Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house All the creatures were stirring, especially the Read More …

Halloween’s Hemp Seed Sow, 1850

Some merry friendly country folks Together did convene, To burn their nits upon their stocks, An hold their Halloween. – Robert Burns, 1855   Tam O’Shanter and the Witches, illustration by John Faed to the poem of Robert Burns 1855 Read More …

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