| Whether or not you expect a baby in the next few | | | | testing and everyday use both confirm what wise |
| months, you should learn about hemp diapers for the | | | | homemakers always already have known about |
| sake of anticipating environmental initiatives and | | | | hemp: Anything cotton can do, hemp can do better. |
| promising economic ventures. Hemp has the potential | | | | Against every measure of fibers' quality, hemp |
| to revolutionize the entire clothing industry just as it has | | | | substantially outperforms cotton. When farmers |
| rendered old diaper designs and manufacturing | | | | recognize hemp's potential as a cash crop, hemp |
| methods completely obsolete. By no means is it a | | | | easily could replace cotton as the world's most popular |
| radical new discovery, hemp has been cultivated since | | | | fiber. Acre for acre, hemp yields far more fiber than |
| approximately 8000 B.C., and botanists have | | | | cotton with far less labor. And, because hemp requires |
| understood hemp's distinction from its psycho-active | | | | very little cultivation and absolutely no pesticide, it costs |
| cousin, marijuana, since they first taxonomized the | | | | considerably less to produce than cotton. Hemp's profit |
| cannabis family. Botanists wisely dubbed hemp "useful | | | | margin dwarfs cotton's. Far more importantly over the |
| cannabis." Farmers and manufacturers are just | | | | long term, hemp does not deplete the soil, whereas |
| beginning to recognize how amazingly useful hemp | | | | cotton ravages it. Because hemp ranks among |
| may become. | | | | Nature's most durable fibers, it recycles almost |
| Hemp diapers provide agronomists and economists | | | | indefinitely, yet it also degrades relatively quickly, |
| with tools for estimating hemp's potential. Rigorous | | | | making it the ideal compostable fiber. |