The Amish Grow This Weed on Purpose — The USDA Made It Illegal in 1971

🔗 The complete Amish Home System — every method from every video, room by room: https://eliyodersecrets.com    • The Amish Have Never Bought Water. The $12...   In a Lancaster County, Pennsylvania farmyard, a man named Eli hands a visitor a piece of rope his grandfather made from a plant his neighbor would tear out of his yard on sight. That same plant fed the soldiers at Valley Forge with seed cake, clothed the pioneers, built the rope that rigged every American sailing vessel before 1900, and was grown by George Washington at Mount Vernon. A five-dollar bag of hemp hurd from a processor two counties over packs the north wall of a farmhouse built in 1890 for three hundred and twenty dollars in materials. A fifty-pound bag of hemp seed cake costs about thirty dollars and fertilizes a thousand square feet of vegetable garden for a full season. A tablespoon of raw hemp seed costs about fifteen cents, sprouted over three days on a wet cotton cloth, and fed to six backyard hens through a single winter produces roughly one hundred and forty extra eggs at store prices worth about forty dollars. And when you combine these uses with the technique a woman namad Mary Yoder learned from a hand-typed 1943 pamphlet passed around a Holmes County church district during the Hemp for Victory campaign, you eliminate the need to ever pay another six-thousand-dollar spray foam contractor bill or buy eggs at the store through January and February — without permits, without contractors, and without modifying anything in the house already standing on your property. The American synthetic insulation, chemical fertilizer, and commercial egg industries generate hundreds of billions in annual revenue. The average homeowner pays six to nine dollars per cubic foot for closed-cell spray foam that off-gases for years and degrades within thirty; hempcrete costs about three dollars a cubic foot and will still be working a hundred years from now. The average backyard flock of six hens stops laying through January and February on standard feed; a tablespoon of sprouted hemp seed per bird per day through winter, fed at a cost of under three dollars total, produces roughly forty dollars worth of eggs the neighbors are buying at the store. In 1942, the USDA produced a fourteen-minute film called Hemp for Victory, begged American farmers to plant four hundred thousand acres, handed out free seed and tax stamps, and saved the war effort. By 1971, the same agency had quietly destroyed almost every copy of that film, denied it had ever existed, and classified the plant alongside heroin under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. Two researchers found surviving prints at the Library of Congress and the National Archives in 1989, and the USDA was finally forced to admit the film was real. In 1937, Harry Anslinger of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics pushed through the Marihuana Tax Act the same year Popular Mechanics called hemp the new billion dollar crop, because a new machine could process hemp fiber as cheaply as wood pulp — a direct threat to the timber, synthetic fiber, and petrochemical industries. The Tax Act made growing licenses functionally impossible to obtain. The 1970 Controlled Substances Act finished the job. While the Amish kept growing small household plots behind the corn, the USDA was simultaneously accepting delivery of Agent Orange from the Department of Defense and spraying dioxin-contaminated herbicide across clear-cut forests of the western United States through the 1970s — a fact documented in the 2021 PBS Independent Lens documentary People vs. Agent Orange. When the 2018 Farm Bill finally re-legalized industrial hemp under three tenths of one percent THC after forty-seven years, researchers from Cornell and Penn State found intact cultivated fiber and seed genetics in Amish seed collections in Lancaster County. The plants that fed Jamestown in 1619 had never stopped being grown. This video shows you the complete Amish hemp system any homeowner can apply to a house built in 1965, 1975, or 1985 — the hempcrete north-wall pack using hurd at forty dollars a bale mixed in a wheelbarrow that cut a Sugarcreek family's propane bill from eighteen hundred to under nine hundred in one season, the hemp seed cake broadcast under garden mulch in fall at thirty dollars per fifty-pound bag that feeds soil instead of poisoning it, the hemp seed oil lamp that burns without blacking the chimney glass, and the Mary Yoder sprouted-seed chicken technique from the 1943 Pennsylvania extension pamphlet that keeps a backyard flock of twelve laying through January and February on less than three dollars of seed — starting this weekend, in the house you already own, for under thirty dollars in materials. #AmishSecrets #IndustrialHemp #HempForVictory #ForgottenKnowledge #Hempcrete #SelfSufficiency #BackyardChickens #HomesteadingTips #SaveMoney #DIYInsulation #OffGridLiving #SuppressedKnowledge #PennsylvaniaDutch #FrugalLiving #HempSeed #2018FarmBill #ZeroCost