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9th Annual Black Hills Hemp Hoe Down
The Hemp Hoe Down is back with our best music lineup yet.
May 7th to May 9th 2009
Elk View Campground, just S. of Sturgis, SD at exit 37 off I-90
HHD9 kicks off Thursday, May 7, at 5 pm
„ Better Than Prozac, Belle Fourche jam band
„ Sequoia and the Modern Day Warriors; Rapid City hip hop blues rock
„ Javier Trejo Trio; Minneapolis; Latin country folk
„ Blue Turtle Seduction; So. Lake Tahoe bluegrass, grooves elements of jam and rock from San Francisco
Two nights of Hot Buttered Rum, a coming-of-age bluegrass band that grooves elements of jam and rock from San Francisco.
Friday, May 8, at 11:30 pm
Saturday, May 9, at 6pm.
Friday, May 8
„ Tommy the Silent (Spearfish Š guitar folk) will start the music off at 5pm. Then
„ MinneapolisÕs best reggae band is back.
„ The New Primitives will play an extended set from 6 to 8:30 pm, and will offer a drum and music workshop for children in the late afternoon.
„ Motorhome (Ft. Collins Š Americana)
„ VonVeederVeld (Psychedelic rock Š RC)
„ Hot Buttered Rum
Saturday, May 9
„ Noise Tractor (Rock Š Spearfish)
„ Hot Buttered Rum
„ Lunar Funk Theory; Sioux Falls Funk)
„ Violent Hippie; Soul Punk, Spearfish
„ The Alrights; a soulful rock band from Duluth, MN with crafty and truthful lyrics
Pre-event tickets are for sale at the following rates: Thursday (5/7) $8, and a two-day pass for Friday and Saturday (5/8 & 5/9) is only $30.
Gate prices are $10 on Thurs, $20 for Fri., and $18 for Sat.
Advance tickets may be purchased at Global Market in Spearfish, and Rapid City, Back to Nature in Sturgis, and Ernie NovemberÕs in Rapid City or online at hemphoedown.com.
All prices include camping. Kids twelve and under are free. HHD9 will take place rain or shine. No drugs, outside alcohol, underage drinking, or glass is allowed. Dogs are allowed if they are leashed and friendly.
HHD9 features a 9-hole disc golf course. The Organibis Kitchen will serve healthy organic meals garnished with hulled or soft hemp seeds. Attendees are also encouraged to try hemp milk from Living Harvest, and Hemp Beer from DempseyÕs Brewery from Watertown, SD.
Hemp shopping is featured at a huge vending area provided by The Hempire, with hemp tee shirts from the Natural Selection. Hemp education videos will be shown, a presentation on the Lakota Hempcrete Project will be offered, and donÕt miss the Lakota Hemp Project PowerPoint presentation.
Alex White Plume will be present on Saturday and will give his annual speech. High Plains Wind and Solar Energy will offer a green energy workshop.
Original art will be on display on paper made from wild hemp gathered in South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation. These original paintings, photographs, and prints will be on display and for sale in the main building. All flyers, posters, tickets, and the HHD9 Magazine, which is given to all attendees (chock-full of hemp info), are printed on 100% recycled paper with soy inks. Some proceeds will be donated to the Lakota Hemp Project.
HHD9 is sponsored by the Breadroot Natural Foods Co-op, which provides the food for the Organibis Kitchen.
Participants are encouraged to bring camping gear, water, extra dry socks, and warm clothes for the evening, with a big smile eager to learn about natureÕs most useful crop.
Check out hemphoedown.com to link to the bands, to learn more, or to buy tickets or register tickets online.
HHD9 is a Keefe Green Production. Contact Jeremy Briggs for more info „ 605-484-1806 „ keefegreen@yahoo.com „ 6121/2 Saint Joseph St. RC, SD 57701
Hemp Facts:
1. Canadian hemp farmers are seeing profits of $300-600 per acre.
- Hemp can be grown without pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and without fertilizer if grown in a proper crop rotation. It is the ultimate green crop because it can provide us with all the protein, pulp, cellulose, and fiber that we need without any toxins in its growth or production.
- Because hemp is so bulky and heavy, it must be processed within a 200-500 mile radius to be cost-effective, which would help create and build green transportation, manufacturing, and processing facilities.
- The U.S. imports more hemp than any other country, at over $300,000,000 a year, yet we are the only industrialized country that does not allow its production. None of the other nations that allow hemp cultivation have had any problems enforcing marijuana laws due to hemps cultivation.
- Hemp could produce more cellulostic biomass than any other crop in the Midwest. Cellulose is the building blocks of paper, plastics, and bio-composites. Biomass is plant matter. The more cellulose that plant matter has, the more money the farmer is going to make. The more biomass a plant produces, the more money the farmer is going to make.
- Hemp has amazing versatility.
Hemp food provides nearly complete nutrition with all ten essential amino acids, all four essential fatty acids in the ratio recommended by health experts, and over 30% protein in very digestible forms, making hemp an ideal food for human consumption.
Hemp feed could provide all the essential protein that livestock requires without the aid of antibiotics.
Hemp oil can be made into non-toxic paints, varnishes, lubricants, and sealants. The paints last longer, and the sealants are better absorbed by wood. Hemp based composites are being made into auto panels that are biodegradable, half the weight of, more durable, and safer than fiberglass counterparts.
Hemp-pulp paper doesnÕt require toxic bleaching chemicals and lasts hundreds of years longer than paper made from trees. It is stronger, and can be recycled many more times than tree paper. An acre of hemp can produce as much pulp as an acre of trees over a 20 year growing cycle!
Hempcrete homes, a mixture of hemp and lime, are fire, water, and rodent proof, are resistant to natural disasters, reduce energy costs by 50%, and reduces the amount of carbon in the air! The building industry is responsible for over 40% of AmericaÕs carbon footprint.
Hemp is also among the longest, strongest, most elastic, and most durable fibers in nature. Hemp is stronger, more durable, softer, more UV protective, warmer, and wonÕt mildew or rot like cotton fiber, which requires 25% of the worlds crop chemicals.
Buy Hemp Hoe Down tickets now
or visit
Ernie November's, 1319 W Main, Rapid City
Global Market, 629 Main, Rapid City & 617 Main, Spearfish
Back to Nature, 825 14th St, Sturgis
and get your tickets.