Pictured : Hemp harvested and stacked for retting , and will shortly be ready for the APU mobile decorticator .
Terana explains , healthy homes become affordable using locally grown fiber , locally processed hurd and community powered builds . What will enable local processing is the purchase of the specially designed APU machine Hinemaia intend to import from Australia . Its price tag is 350k . A public fund raising campaign will be launched via TV3 this weekend .
She goes on , " The machine arrives February . Fiber crop is harvested March . Community Build begins July . Build will complete in December . Follow their journey on FB : Hinemaia Hemp o Te Waimana
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