Earl Pendleton News Today

From the banks of Wounded Knee Creek to the White Earth reservation, this spring, more seeds will be planted for the New Green Revolution.Bringing life back to the soil is work, but these farmers are doing it. Fields of dreams, indeed.

Hempcrete blocks and panels could be produced in the U.S. for the first time since 1937 thanks to a facility being built in the Lower Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota. 

On reservations where housing affordability and quality are persistent problems, temperatures at or below zero or always a concern. Earl Pendleton, a former tribal council member with the Lower Sioux Community, is turning to hemp to help solve those problems as well as create economic opportunities for tribal members.

"What the Lower Sioux is doing is the most compelling and forward-thinking thing that’s happening in hempcrete today."

For now, its only a gaping hole in the ground, 100-by-100 feet, surrounded by farm machinery and bales of hemp on a sandy patch of earth on the Lower Sioux Indian Reservation in southwestern …

Grist takes a closer look at how the Lower Sioux reservation will soon have the only facility to create hempcrete in the country.

The Indigenous nation, one of the smallest in the country, will soon have the America's first and only facility to create hempcrete.

The Lower Sioux nation will soon have the only facility in the country that manufactures hempcrete.

The Lower Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota is growing hemp to create hempcrete, which is used to build eco-friendly houses.

The hempcrete duplex, constructed with a building material made of hemp, lime and water and built on the Lower Sioux Indian Community, will be used as emergency shelter for tribal members in need.