In 1917, George Schlichten patented the hemp decorticator. A machine that could’ve made hemp the “New Billion-Dollar Crop.” Instead, it was defunded and buried to protect cotton, timber, and petro profits.

Women now drive consumer demand, own businesses and write policy shaping a hemp & bamboo economy that outpaces politics.

• A 50,000-acre hemp and bamboo pilot can cut or store nearly half a million tons of CO₂e a year—powered by everyday purchases and renewable desal.

AFG: Processor Atlas — Where capacity actually lives
We mapped North American hemp/bamboo processors by capability and throughput—decorticators, dryers, carders, nonwovens, compounders, panel presses. Size = tons per day, color = process. The picture isn’t “no supply chain”; it’s uneven, under-upgraded capacity clustered around cheap power, rail, and ports. The chokepoints are predictable: drying, QA, and offtake. Fix those, and lines move from press release to production.

This Atlas is a placement tool: operators find neighbors and buyers; capital finds upgrades with short payback and clean compliance (FEOC/DC, Energy Communities, 45X/48C, §6417/§6418). If you’ve got a line we missed—or one ready to scale—send the intake. We’re funding boring things that print throughput.

Evolution Mine is regeneration — powered by hemp, bamboo, and women.
We are not a brand. We are not a think tank. We are an economic movement engineered to bankrupt the petrochemical empire and replace it with something that actually lasts.