CARBON - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director
- Commercial Director of Jersey Hemp
As well as his role with The Carbon Farm, Craig is also the Commercial Director of Jersey Hemp, the first licensed CBD producers in the British Isles.
A Soil Food Web qualified composter, microbiologist and soil steward, Glyn supports all growing systems to make soils naturally healthy and fertile.
Industrial hemp captures 10 times more carbon from the atmosphere than trees. Source: Lemus R, Lal R (2005). The Carbon Farm has been working closely with Jersey Hemp, a licensed British hemp farm, to improve and track soil health and carbon sequestration through their industrial hemp cultivation. The Carbon Farm provides biologically complete compost to aid the nutrient demands of hemp.
Hemp being a pioneering crop regenerates soils for other crops and trees. Once established, hemp grows with little water and requires no herbicides or pesticides. This makes hemp the perfect cover crop as it returns nutrients to the soil helping rejuvenate the land. It can be used for soil decontamination purposes, for example, to remediate brown field sites. A case study is being initiated to monitor and record the benefits to the soil of hemp cultivation, and to develop a methodology to calculate the level of carbon sequestration with a view to producing Jersey's first carbon offset.