Kentucky, the nation’s largest hemp producer in the 19th and 20th centuries, is back in the game with a new generation of innovators who have formed the country’s first organic hemp cooperative. Its mission: build on the past, educate for the future.
![mowing](https://tilth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IGT_Summer-2019_Hemp_HempHarmonic_1.jpg)
![close up hemp plant](https://tilth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IGT_Summer-2019_Hemp_HempHarmonic_3.jpg)
![kentucky hemp field](https://tilth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IGT_Summer-2019_Hemp_HempHarmonic_4.jpg)
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![tony silvernail 4 grid](https://tilth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IGT_Summer-2019_Hemp_HempHarmonic_8a.jpg)
![hemp field and hoophouse](https://tilth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IGT_Summer-2019_Hemp_HempHarmonic_11.jpg)
![hemp grid with dog, sky and man](https://tilth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IGT_Summer-2019_Hemp_HempHarmonic_9.jpg)
Photo by Rebecca Redding
![Alice Collins-Mettille and Joe Mettille](https://tilth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IGT_Summer-2019_Hemp_HempHarmonic_10.jpg)