Water, essential to life and hempcrete
Our wildly popular hempcrete 202 trainings at the HempShed have just been outdone! We are thrilled to announce Advanced Training Hempcrete 402 and Lime Plaster 412. This 3 day course expands on lessons from our 202 course. Sorry folks, this training is only available to folks who have attended one of HempStone’s in-person trainings.
Read MoreHempcrete is a simple, biocomposite building material that's healthy, resilient, and carbon beneficial and can be used throughout the thermal envelope in both new construction and existing buildings. In this podcast, Jennifer Martin, Catalyst of HempStone joins Joy Beckerman to talk about hempcrete's superior qualities that may radically revolutionize the future of building materials.
Read MoreHempcrete 202 Trainings are going fast, so sign up today!
Read MoreHempStone’s Hempcrete Trainings are back, and are now better than ever!
This summer, consider joining HempStone at the forest edge of South Hadley and dive into the world of radically responsible architecture. We hope to see you there!
Read MoreHempStone is going Viral!
Read MoreShelby Howland is building a business on an ethos of natural building materials, as a way to provide healthy, affordable, practical building solutions for his community. Just a year ago, hempcrete was new to him. A year later, he’s embarking on a journey of not just one hempcrete construction business, but two.
Read MoreDive into the essential details of hempcrete you won’t want to miss!
In Hempcrete 201, Alex Sparrow of UK Hempcrete shares robust detailing while Tom Rossmassler of HempStone provides the latest information on hempcrete in the US industry. We’'ll post additional resources to accompany the presentation which aid the adoption of this material in the industry.
Read MoreGet down to the brass tacks of hempcrete with Alex Sparrow of UK Hempcrete and Tom Rossmassler of HempStone on Friday, August 14th. In this continuing education series, we dive into the details you really need to know to design and build with this bio-composite material.
Read MoreCob construction is about to become part of the 2021 International Residential Building Code. This is an exciting time for local, natural materials.
Hempcrete aspires to join the ranks of strawbale, light straw-clay, and now cob as a legitimate natural building material throughout the US and beyond.
Read MoreJoin us on July 8th for a Virtual Tour and Talk, hosted by the US Hemp Building Foundation.
This one-hour webinar showcases a new timber framed, hempcrete home in Goshen, Massachusetts.
Experience an in-depth look at this project from multiple perspectives: designer/owner Shelby Howland, the Village Carpentry and Landscaping construction crew, and HempStone natural building consultants!
Read MoreAt HempStone, we endeavor to build a sustainable construction industry - from the ground up! As US Hemp Building Association Regional Leaders, we work with our Leadership Partners to offer education, support, and engagement of hempcrete in Upstate New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. How can we help you?
Read MoreHempcrete 101 - Back to the Future with Carbon-beneficial Materials has shifted to online, and you are invited! We welcome you to this free one hour webinar on June 18th at 1pm EDT.
Learn something new, earn some professsional continuing education credits, and enjoy!
Alex and Tom will serve up some delightful imagery and fundamental details of hempcrete, and wet your appetite for an even deeper dive into hempcrete come August when NESEA hosts BE Boston 2020.
Read MoreJoin us May 6th for a free Zoom Webinar to discuss Hemp Building - sponsored by the US Hemp Building Association.
Special guests Alison Mears and Jonsara Ruth of The New School Parsons Healthy Materials Lab will discuss their research into hemp and lime.
Massachusetts’ first hempcrete building is underway with the structural frame reaching skyward in early March. The timber frame, designed by Shelby Howland, and cut by the carpentry crew at Village Carpentry and Landscaping (with a wee bit of help by Catalyst).
Read MoreGain hands-on experience and have a blast learning about hempcrete - the natural building material poised to take the industry by storm!
Read MoreBy sourcing local materials, we can confirm the carbon and social benefits of our material choices. There’s nothing like seeing the fields that materials are grown in, of looking the farmer in the eye and shaking their hand. We support local farmers, processors, and manufacturers because we value accountability.
Read MoreWe support the development of local, abundant, renewable building material resources in New England because we value accountability.
Read MoreHempcrete 101: Back to the Future for Natural, Carbon-Beneficial Buildings. Join Tom Rossmassler and Alex Sparrow at NESEA’s BE Boston 2020 conference on March 24.
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