Workwear Stories
Industrial hemp is a crop that has the potential to lower the environmental impacts of textile production, empower small-scale farmers and create jobs in a wide variety of industries. Two non-profit groups, Fibershed and Growing Warriors, are working to reintroduce industrial hemp into Kentucky—and eventually U.S. agriculture.
In Colorado’s San Luis Valley, worsening drought is causing farmers to face the prospect of losing their livelihoods. Two farmers are placing their bets on a drought-tolerant crop—industrial hemp.
How can Hispanic farmworkers become farm owners? For Mexican immigrant Javier Zamora, the sunup to sundown work ethic was already there—he just needed some support from his community.
Under the gaze of southern Arizona’s cinnamon-hued Canelo Hills, a mother passes along an ancient Puebloan tradition of natural adobe building to her three sons.
El arquitecto y escalador Dylan Johnson se une a Yvon Chouinard y un comprometido equipo de trabajo para construir dos casas usando fardos de paja.
En el condado de Warren, Carolina del Norte, un agricultor afroamericano está cultivando cáñamo industrial para ayudar a que su granja centenaria siga prosperando por al menos 100 años más.
A family in Maine reimagines a future for working waterfronts that puts back more than it takes.