The Lower Sioux in Minnesota need homes — so they are building them from hemp

 The Lower Sioux in Minnesota need homes — so they are building them from hemp

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

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 in the Lower Sioux Indian Reservation in southwestern Minnesot…