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The benefits of hemp and CBD
For our eighth episode, it’s time to get a little high.
We offer you a dialogue and even an immersion into the benefits of hemp, and the thriving trend of CBD. We’ll even travel a bit as I take you to Berry, to the fields of Sandie Floquet – who cultivates, at the restaurant l’Hirondelle in Lignères by Eve Choukroun-Tardif, alongside Linda Louis, well-known for her marvelous cooking and photography.
Cannabis, hemp, CBD, THC… It can sometimes be hard to keep track!
Cannabis sativa is a plant species that contains no less than 113 cannabinoids with various effects and health benefits.
Among these active molecules is THC, a molecule with psychoactive effects. CBD (cannabidiol) is another molecule, also extracted from the flower, with non-psychoactive effects, but numerous health benefits that we will explore today.
Hemp is a variety of cannabis with a low THC content, below 0.2%: it is an extraordinary plant, ecologically grown, and used to make oil, flours, paper, mulch, and construction materials.
Hemp seeds have interesting nutritional properties: their protein content is over 30%, and they are low in saturated fatty acids.
The guest: Linda Louis
Linda is a notable author in organic, local, and wild cuisine. She is now published by Alternatives and La Plage. She pays close attention to her ingredients and recipes, inviting the reader on a poetic journey through her photos taken in her native Berry.
She also explores themes of food autonomy in nature and zero waste. Her books are translated into several languages.
She collaborates regularly with culinary, gardening, or ecological press and has been running a blog, Cuisine Campagne (www.cuisine-campagne.com), a portfolio (http://www.linda-louis.com), and an Instagram account (lindalouisberry) since 2006, where she advocates for authentic, vibrant, generous, and nature-connected cuisine.
Eve Choukroun-Tardif, from the restaurant l’Hirondelle in Lignères, has prepared for us a wild garlic focaccia, a chickpea and plantain fritatta, kasha generously garnished with hemp oil and seeds.
Sandie Floquet has been a farmer in Loye-sur-Arnon for 5 years, practicing peasant and organic agriculture. Originally from Berry, she cultivates protein crops – which feed neighboring goat herds whose milk is entirely processed at the 13 Grains cheese factory run with her sisters. The cereals are turned into flour and malts for the beer of her partner Eloi. And oilseeds are processed into oils such as hemp.
My questions
- So, Linda, what do you feel and see in Sandie’s field, as summer arrives?
- Before we start, did you want us to hear the hemp seeds?
- Why hemp? How did you become interested in this somewhat marvelous plant?
- Is it a traditional Berry crop?
- Enlighten us: What are the differences between hemp and cannabis at first, and between CBD and THC at a second glance?
- What does regulation say regarding hemp cultivation? And how about CBD?
- Hemp is therefore a food and CBD a ‘well-being’ dietary supplement derived from the flower: What are the ‘health’ and ‘well-being’ benefits of hemp and then of CBD?
- Is there any habituation to CBD?
- Where can they be found? Are there any French ones? I imagine the answer is different depending on whether it’s hemp or CBD?
- Are there any contraindications for consuming CBD?
- Do you have one or two easy recipe ideas for our listeners? One with hemp and one with CBD?
Resources for further exploration
- Linda Louis’s book, Super Hemp and CBD, published by Editions Alternatives
- The Pigerolle farm, one of the first CBD producers in France
The (R)evolutionary Food podcasts are presented by Louise Browaeys
An agronomy engineer (AgroParisTech) with a specialty in nutrition, Louise has been working for ten years in the agriculture, food, and ecology sectors.
She is the author or co-author of several books on themes of food, ecology, permaculture, and corporate social responsibility, including: “La part de la terre : agriculture as art” (Delachaux and Niestlé, 2014), “Permaculture quotidien” (Terre Vivante, 2018), “Le régime planétaire” (La Plage, 2020).
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