Ep. 24 - How the Emerging Hemp Food Industry Will Build the US & Global Hemp Economies w/ Richard Rose, Founder of the Hemp Foods Association

Definitely an episode you must hear as Josh tackles several hot issues with OG, Richard Rose, founder of the Hemp Foods Association, and author of the Richard Rose Report.  The expert voice in all things hemp foods, listen to Richard’s keen insights regarding what the hemp industry still needs and why hemp grain is poised to be the market’s first billion dollar sector.

For 27 years Richard Rose has been a hemp foods pioneer, researcher, author, educator, advocate, speaker, consultant, product developer, brander, marketer, thought leader, Mentor, and entrepreneur. 

After pivoting from a successful 14-year soyfoods marketing career, in 1994 he started a movement by being the first to market sophisticated branded perishable foods made from hempseed to the masses, not only proving the viability of a new industry but changing society’s stigmas too. That revolution in food became hemp’s first billion dollar industry, and today is 90% of Canadian hemp. Until CBD it was the leading value-driver for hemp, globally.

For over four decades he’s been a leading innovator in the natural food industry with such soyfoods as TofuRella, Cottage Tofu Salad, and LeTofu sold around the world. Receiving the first 3 hemp industry awards for food innovation, he was the first food professional in hemp foods in North America, and paved the way for those he inspired to follow.