Hemp Home

DON Enterprises received multiple grants from the Commonwealth Specialty Crop Block Grant for Project PA Hemp Home. These grants supported research, testing, and an application to the International Construction Code for hempcrete building materials. DON, in collaboration with the PA Housing Research Center at Penn State University and Parsons School of Design Healthy Materials Lab in New York City, renovated a blighted property using hempcrete. Hempcrete is a non-structural, bio-composite insulation material made from non-toxic industrial hemp hurd, lime binder, and water that was applied in a plastering application.