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Doug Fine

Globe-Trotting Journalist, Award-Winning Climate Correspondent, Goat-Herder & Author

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Doug Fine Biography

Doug Fine is a solar-powered goat herder, comedic investigative journalist, bestselling author, and pioneer voice in regenerative farming, including cannabis/hemp. He has cultivated hemp for food and seed-building in four US states and teaches a Sterling College hemp class in Vermont.

In addition, he is an award-winning culture and climate correspondent from five continents (for NPR, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, among others). His books include American Hemp Farmer, Hemp Bound, Too High to Fail, Farewell, My Subaru (a Boston Globe Bestseller available in two Chinese dialects), Not Really An Alaskan Mountain Man, and First Legal Harvest, a monograph that was printed on hemp paper.

Willie Nelson calls Doug’s work “a blueprint for the America of the future.” The Washington Post says, “Fine is a storyteller in the mold of Douglas Adams.”

Speaking Topics
  • What You, Me and Anyone Can Do To Mitigate Climate Change

    Doug Fine, Bestselling Author of Farewell, My Subaru and Hemp Bound When a bear fleeing a wildfire killed all his goats and terrified his family a decade ago, Doug Fine set out to find whether one family can make a difference in humanity’s climate change mitigation project. The answer? Yes, indeed. In a gripping, funny and slide-accompanied keynote, Fine discusses the soil building and regenerative food cultivation techniques that he practices on his Funky Butte Ranch in New Mexico. There he milks goats, homeschools his children and generally lives a rugged individualist’s dream life. But Doug grew up in the suburbs, and can explain to all audiences (from urban to rural) the concrete steps we can all take to be part of humanity’s thriving for coming generations. This includes solar power tips, driving on alternative fuels and thinking about regenerative products and packaging, as well as raising food on the smallest or largest of properties.

  • The Rebirth of the Regenerative Hemp Farmer

    Bestselling Author and Speaker Doug Fine, author of Farewell, My Subaru and American Hemp Farmer.

    “Humanity is in the bottom of the ninth, two outs,” Doug Fine writes in his latest bestseller, American Hemp Farmer, “And this time the farmers are In charge.” Fine has established himself, in the words of Eric Steenstra, Executive Director of the industry group VoteHemp, as “not just our preeminent hemp author, he is one of the most important authors of our time. He doesn't just pant hemp, he wears it he lives an independent, food-secure lifestyle.”

    Hemp is one of the hottest careers in the digital age (and one of humanity’s longest utilized plants). This event is a soil-to-product, comprehensive, and edge-of-your-seat rundown of what it takes to join the worldwide hemp renaissance not just as an entrepreneur, but, concurrently and lucratively, as an earth saver. Doug Fine is an acknowledged worldwide leader of the regenerative hemp entrepreneurial movement.

    Fortunately for humanity, hemp’s return coincides with the reawakening of a global awareness that the Earth is a system like a store’s shelves. We either begin mitigating climate change in the soil, or we die off. Here’s the real win-win: The regenerative, top-shelf craft model Doug outlines in this event nearly always results in products superior to mass-produced ones, the way fresh-squeezed orange juice beats frozen concentrate. Without that marketplace superiority, merely saving humanity would be a tough sell to folks entering the industry as economically stressed family farmers. The essential point is that regenerative values can still be entrepreneurial. Everyone wants to make a living.

    Also important to keep in mind is that hemp is merely leading the way in this wider migration back to biomaterials as our primary industrial feedstock. Soon, if we’re successful in our execution and messaging, the processes hemp’s pioneers are developing will seed the industrial pipeline in areas well beyond one plant. Regenerative hemp will be the leading brand, the way that craft beer is taking over market dominance from mass market beer.

    We’re talking about an economy-wide regenerative entrepreneurial renaissance. So this is an event for everyone interested not just in hemp, but in a regenerative enterprise, a regenerative community, a regenerative society. That means one that will be thriving seven generations down the line. In the event, Doug even discusses end-of-life planning for product packaging, and the scope of a regenerative enterprise’s distribution radius. “It’s all about building communities in our enterprises and mitigating climate change. It can still be super lucrative to be regenerative.”

    This event is also ideal for hemp customers and supporters as well as interested farmers and producers. And this keynote is also perfect for any regenerative themed event, even if it’s not a cannabis/hemp specific event. Regenerative hemp is a cornerstone of the rebirth of the biomaterial era and Doug Fine is on the frontlines: he has printed hemp-derived compostable plastics (Goodbye Pacific Garbage Patch). His own hemp seed genetics have been used to heal polluted soil in a New Mexico University study, and his own hemp product is a farm-to-table, organic superfood. And he tells us all about it, dressed from head to tow in hemp and other natural fiber clothes, some of them made by his sweetheart back on their Funky Butte Ranch.

    General audiences, business groups and conferences, and universities (general, plus ag, business and law schools and sustainability programs) are all ideal audiences for this event. The entertaining event’s connection with Fine’s new book American Hemp Farmer and sustainability classic Farewell, My Subaru makes it ideal for an all-class or all-organization read.

  • Superfood Security For Everyone Is A Seed Away

    Bestselling Author and Speaker Doug Fine, author of Farewell, My Subaru and American Hemp Farmer.

    Suddenly everybody is thinking about food security — many for the first time. Michelle Obama’s TV show, Waffles + Mochi, for instance, deals with growing and eating healthy food. Doug Fine is a leader in this movement – in fact when not performing his live events and investigating stories on five continents in his comedic journalism and book writing career, he’s been sequestered on his remote Funky Butte Ranch since 1999, growing food, driving on vegetable oil when he can, and getting outsmarted by goats.

    But as Doug shows in this keynote, achieving food security doesn’t have to be difficult, and it can be downright fun. That is, if you can keep your goats out of the rose bushes and your solar panels from electrocuting you, something Doug has never quite accomplished. In fact, you can do it in your backyard, on a city roof, or on the lawn outside your workplace.

    Based on Doug Fine's new book, American Hemp Farmer, which launched as Amazon’s #1 new release in agriculture and immediately was nominated for the 2021 Santa Fe Reporter’s prestigious Book of the Year, with elements from Farewell, My Subaru, Doug’s local living classic, this delicious live event is both a practical and feel good one. Best of all, the event brings attendees, via wildly colorful storytelling and slides, right inside Doug's fragrant, permitted hemp and vegetable field on the Funky Butte Ranch in New Mexico.

    With large numbers of people wanting to understand food supply chain security, there is suddenly a critical mass of prospective first time gardeners in all demographics eager for knowledge about where to start. Step by step, Doug (dressed in homemade hemp and linen clothing, of course), explains why it makes sense to plant hemp (and other protein• and nutrient-dense crops) now. He gives practical soil building tips, seed sourcing advance, and tales of being outsmarted a locavore coyote he named Dick Cheney.

    A strong appeal of this event is that Doug walks the walk: he is equipped to offer food security advice to non-professional farmers (regular folks), because he is one himself. Raised on Long Island long before becoming a goat-and-hemp rancher out West, he's written about his efforts at food security in the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post and NPR. He’s even done a TED Talk and appeared on Conan O’Brien to talk about it.

    Home-schooling his kids in a ranch in the middle of nowhere, Doug walks the walk, talks the talk, and looks every inch the regenerative hemp farmer that he is. He is out to teach us how to save ourselves and humanity, or die trying (especially when his solar panels nearly electrocute him).

Videos
Books
American Hemp Farmer: Adventures and Misadventures in the Cannabis Trade

American Hemp Farmer: Adventures and Misadventures in the Cannabis Trade

Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution

Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution

Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution

Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution

Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living

Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living

Not Really an Alaskan Mountain Man

Not Really an Alaskan Mountain Man

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    Speaking fees for Doug Fine, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book Doug Fine are $10,000 - $20,000 for live events and under $10,000 for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire Doug Fine, click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.
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    Doug Fine generally travels from New Mexico, USA, but can be booked for private corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. For more details, please contact an AAE Booking agent.
  • Who is Doug Fine’s agent?

    AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully booked keynote speakers like Doug Fine for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Doug Fine for your next private or corporate function.
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    AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Doug Fine or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.
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Doug Fine Biography

Doug Fine is a solar-powered goat herder, comedic investigative journalist, bestselling author, and pioneer voice in regenerative farming, including cannabis/hemp. He has cultivated hemp for food and seed-building in four US states and teaches a Sterling College hemp class in Vermont.

In addition, he is an award-winning culture and climate correspondent from five continents (for NPR, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, among others). His books include American Hemp Farmer, Hemp Bound, Too High to Fail, Farewell, My Subaru (a Boston Globe Bestseller available in two Chinese dialects), Not Really An Alaskan Mountain Man, and First Legal Harvest, a monograph that was printed on hemp paper.

Willie Nelson calls Doug’s work “a blueprint for the America of the future.” The Washington Post says, “Fine is a storyteller in the mold of Douglas Adams.”

Doug Fine Speaking Topics

  • What You, Me and Anyone Can Do To Mitigate Climate Change

    Doug Fine, Bestselling Author of Farewell, My Subaru and Hemp Bound When a bear fleeing a wildfire killed all his goats and terrified his family a decade ago, Doug Fine set out to find whether one family can make a difference in humanity’s climate change mitigation project. The answer? Yes, indeed. In a gripping, funny and slide-accompanied keynote, Fine discusses the soil building and regenerative food cultivation techniques that he practices on his Funky Butte Ranch in New Mexico. There he milks goats, homeschools his children and generally lives a rugged individualist’s dream life. But Doug grew up in the suburbs, and can explain to all audiences (from urban to rural) the concrete steps we can all take to be part of humanity’s thriving for coming generations. This includes solar power tips, driving on alternative fuels and thinking about regenerative products and packaging, as well as raising food on the smallest or largest of properties.

  • The Rebirth of the Regenerative Hemp Farmer

    Bestselling Author and Speaker Doug Fine, author of Farewell, My Subaru and American Hemp Farmer.

    “Humanity is in the bottom of the ninth, two outs,” Doug Fine writes in his latest bestseller, American Hemp Farmer, “And this time the farmers are In charge.” Fine has established himself, in the words of Eric Steenstra, Executive Director of the industry group VoteHemp, as “not just our preeminent hemp author, he is one of the most important authors of our time. He doesn't just pant hemp, he wears it he lives an independent, food-secure lifestyle.”

    Hemp is one of the hottest careers in the digital age (and one of humanity’s longest utilized plants). This event is a soil-to-product, comprehensive, and edge-of-your-seat rundown of what it takes to join the worldwide hemp renaissance not just as an entrepreneur, but, concurrently and lucratively, as an earth saver. Doug Fine is an acknowledged worldwide leader of the regenerative hemp entrepreneurial movement.

    Fortunately for humanity, hemp’s return coincides with the reawakening of a global awareness that the Earth is a system like a store’s shelves. We either begin mitigating climate change in the soil, or we die off. Here’s the real win-win: The regenerative, top-shelf craft model Doug outlines in this event nearly always results in products superior to mass-produced ones, the way fresh-squeezed orange juice beats frozen concentrate. Without that marketplace superiority, merely saving humanity would be a tough sell to folks entering the industry as economically stressed family farmers. The essential point is that regenerative values can still be entrepreneurial. Everyone wants to make a living.

    Also important to keep in mind is that hemp is merely leading the way in this wider migration back to biomaterials as our primary industrial feedstock. Soon, if we’re successful in our execution and messaging, the processes hemp’s pioneers are developing will seed the industrial pipeline in areas well beyond one plant. Regenerative hemp will be the leading brand, the way that craft beer is taking over market dominance from mass market beer.

    We’re talking about an economy-wide regenerative entrepreneurial renaissance. So this is an event for everyone interested not just in hemp, but in a regenerative enterprise, a regenerative community, a regenerative society. That means one that will be thriving seven generations down the line. In the event, Doug even discusses end-of-life planning for product packaging, and the scope of a regenerative enterprise’s distribution radius. “It’s all about building communities in our enterprises and mitigating climate change. It can still be super lucrative to be regenerative.”

    This event is also ideal for hemp customers and supporters as well as interested farmers and producers. And this keynote is also perfect for any regenerative themed event, even if it’s not a cannabis/hemp specific event. Regenerative hemp is a cornerstone of the rebirth of the biomaterial era and Doug Fine is on the frontlines: he has printed hemp-derived compostable plastics (Goodbye Pacific Garbage Patch). His own hemp seed genetics have been used to heal polluted soil in a New Mexico University study, and his own hemp product is a farm-to-table, organic superfood. And he tells us all about it, dressed from head to tow in hemp and other natural fiber clothes, some of them made by his sweetheart back on their Funky Butte Ranch.

    General audiences, business groups and conferences, and universities (general, plus ag, business and law schools and sustainability programs) are all ideal audiences for this event. The entertaining event’s connection with Fine’s new book American Hemp Farmer and sustainability classic Farewell, My Subaru makes it ideal for an all-class or all-organization read.

  • Superfood Security For Everyone Is A Seed Away

    Bestselling Author and Speaker Doug Fine, author of Farewell, My Subaru and American Hemp Farmer.

    Suddenly everybody is thinking about food security — many for the first time. Michelle Obama’s TV show, Waffles + Mochi, for instance, deals with growing and eating healthy food. Doug Fine is a leader in this movement – in fact when not performing his live events and investigating stories on five continents in his comedic journalism and book writing career, he’s been sequestered on his remote Funky Butte Ranch since 1999, growing food, driving on vegetable oil when he can, and getting outsmarted by goats.

    But as Doug shows in this keynote, achieving food security doesn’t have to be difficult, and it can be downright fun. That is, if you can keep your goats out of the rose bushes and your solar panels from electrocuting you, something Doug has never quite accomplished. In fact, you can do it in your backyard, on a city roof, or on the lawn outside your workplace.

    Based on Doug Fine's new book, American Hemp Farmer, which launched as Amazon’s #1 new release in agriculture and immediately was nominated for the 2021 Santa Fe Reporter’s prestigious Book of the Year, with elements from Farewell, My Subaru, Doug’s local living classic, this delicious live event is both a practical and feel good one. Best of all, the event brings attendees, via wildly colorful storytelling and slides, right inside Doug's fragrant, permitted hemp and vegetable field on the Funky Butte Ranch in New Mexico.

    With large numbers of people wanting to understand food supply chain security, there is suddenly a critical mass of prospective first time gardeners in all demographics eager for knowledge about where to start. Step by step, Doug (dressed in homemade hemp and linen clothing, of course), explains why it makes sense to plant hemp (and other protein• and nutrient-dense crops) now. He gives practical soil building tips, seed sourcing advance, and tales of being outsmarted a locavore coyote he named Dick Cheney.

    A strong appeal of this event is that Doug walks the walk: he is equipped to offer food security advice to non-professional farmers (regular folks), because he is one himself. Raised on Long Island long before becoming a goat-and-hemp rancher out West, he's written about his efforts at food security in the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post and NPR. He’s even done a TED Talk and appeared on Conan O’Brien to talk about it.

    Home-schooling his kids in a ranch in the middle of nowhere, Doug walks the walk, talks the talk, and looks every inch the regenerative hemp farmer that he is. He is out to teach us how to save ourselves and humanity, or die trying (especially when his solar panels nearly electrocute him).

Doug Fine Videos

  • Doug Fine: All about Hemp | Cannabis University 2018
    About Doug Fine: Doug FIne is an American bestseller author, journalist, hemp expert and goat farmer has been on our wish list for a long time. In...
  • NoCo Hemp Expo 2016 - Doug Fine Keynote
    #LetsTalkHemp @ #NoCoHempExpo 2016 Let's Talk Hemp Theater Room State Of The Hemp Industry 2016 Hosted by Doug Fine
  • Cannabis Expert Doug Fine Interview Pt 1 - CONAN on TBS
    The "Too High to Fail" author makes the case for marijuana legalization.

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  • How do I book Doug Fine to speak at my event?

    Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like Doug Fine for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for Doug Fine, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for Doug Fine or any other speaker of your choice.
  • What are the speaker fees for Doug Fine

    Speaking fees for Doug Fine, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book Doug Fine are $10,000 - $20,000 for live events and under $10,000 for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire Doug Fine, click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.
  • What topics does Doug Fine speak about?

  • Where does Doug Fine travel from?

    Doug Fine generally travels from New Mexico, USA, but can be booked for private corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. For more details, please contact an AAE Booking agent.
  • Who is Doug Fine’s agent?

    AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully booked keynote speakers like Doug Fine for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Doug Fine for your next private or corporate function.
  • What is a full-service speaker booking agency?

    AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Doug Fine or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.
  • Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?

    If you’re looking for the best, unbiased speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.

Doug Fine is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as What You, Me and Anyone Can Do To Mitigate Climate Change, The Rebirth of the Regenerative Hemp Farmer and Superfood Security For Everyone Is A Seed Away. The estimated speaking fee range to book Doug Fine for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Doug Fine generally travels from NM, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Ed Begley Jr., Tensie Whelan, Jamie Margolin, Dr. Sylvia Hood Washington and Alexandra Cousteau. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Doug Fine for an upcoming live or virtual event.

Doug Fine Speaking Topics

  • What You, Me and Anyone Can Do To Mitigate Climate Change

    Doug Fine, Bestselling Author of Farewell, My Subaru and Hemp Bound When a bear fleeing a wildfire killed all his goats and terrified his family a decade ago, Doug Fine set out to find whether one family can make a difference in humanity’s climate change mitigation project. The answer? Yes, indeed. In a gripping, funny and slide-accompanied keynote, Fine discusses the soil building and regenerative food cultivation techniques that he practices on his Funky Butte Ranch in New Mexico. There he milks goats, homeschools his children and generally lives a rugged individualist’s dream life. But Doug grew up in the suburbs, and can explain to all audiences (from urban to rural) the concrete steps we can all take to be part of humanity’s thriving for coming generations. This includes solar power tips, driving on alternative fuels and thinking about regenerative products and packaging, as well as raising food on the smallest or largest of properties.

  • The Rebirth of the Regenerative Hemp Farmer

    Bestselling Author and Speaker Doug Fine, author of Farewell, My Subaru and American Hemp Farmer.

    “Humanity is in the bottom of the ninth, two outs,” Doug Fine writes in his latest bestseller, American Hemp Farmer, “And this time the farmers are In charge.” Fine has established himself, in the words of Eric Steenstra, Executive Director of the industry group VoteHemp, as “not just our preeminent hemp author, he is one of the most important authors of our time. He doesn't just pant hemp, he wears it he lives an independent, food-secure lifestyle.”

    Hemp is one of the hottest careers in the digital age (and one of humanity’s longest utilized plants). This event is a soil-to-product, comprehensive, and edge-of-your-seat rundown of what it takes to join the worldwide hemp renaissance not just as an entrepreneur, but, concurrently and lucratively, as an earth saver. Doug Fine is an acknowledged worldwide leader of the regenerative hemp entrepreneurial movement.

    Fortunately for humanity, hemp’s return coincides with the reawakening of a global awareness that the Earth is a system like a store’s shelves. We either begin mitigating climate change in the soil, or we die off. Here’s the real win-win: The regenerative, top-shelf craft model Doug outlines in this event nearly always results in products superior to mass-produced ones, the way fresh-squeezed orange juice beats frozen concentrate. Without that marketplace superiority, merely saving humanity would be a tough sell to folks entering the industry as economically stressed family farmers. The essential point is that regenerative values can still be entrepreneurial. Everyone wants to make a living.

    Also important to keep in mind is that hemp is merely leading the way in this wider migration back to biomaterials as our primary industrial feedstock. Soon, if we’re successful in our execution and messaging, the processes hemp’s pioneers are developing will seed the industrial pipeline in areas well beyond one plant. Regenerative hemp will be the leading brand, the way that craft beer is taking over market dominance from mass market beer.

    We’re talking about an economy-wide regenerative entrepreneurial renaissance. So this is an event for everyone interested not just in hemp, but in a regenerative enterprise, a regenerative community, a regenerative society. That means one that will be thriving seven generations down the line. In the event, Doug even discusses end-of-life planning for product packaging, and the scope of a regenerative enterprise’s distribution radius. “It’s all about building communities in our enterprises and mitigating climate change. It can still be super lucrative to be regenerative.”

    This event is also ideal for hemp customers and supporters as well as interested farmers and producers. And this keynote is also perfect for any regenerative themed event, even if it’s not a cannabis/hemp specific event. Regenerative hemp is a cornerstone of the rebirth of the biomaterial era and Doug Fine is on the frontlines: he has printed hemp-derived compostable plastics (Goodbye Pacific Garbage Patch). His own hemp seed genetics have been used to heal polluted soil in a New Mexico University study, and his own hemp product is a farm-to-table, organic superfood. And he tells us all about it, dressed from head to tow in hemp and other natural fiber clothes, some of them made by his sweetheart back on their Funky Butte Ranch.

    General audiences, business groups and conferences, and universities (general, plus ag, business and law schools and sustainability programs) are all ideal audiences for this event. The entertaining event’s connection with Fine’s new book American Hemp Farmer and sustainability classic Farewell, My Subaru makes it ideal for an all-class or all-organization read.

  • Superfood Security For Everyone Is A Seed Away

    Bestselling Author and Speaker Doug Fine, author of Farewell, My Subaru and American Hemp Farmer.

    Suddenly everybody is thinking about food security — many for the first time. Michelle Obama’s TV show, Waffles + Mochi, for instance, deals with growing and eating healthy food. Doug Fine is a leader in this movement – in fact when not performing his live events and investigating stories on five continents in his comedic journalism and book writing career, he’s been sequestered on his remote Funky Butte Ranch since 1999, growing food, driving on vegetable oil when he can, and getting outsmarted by goats.

    But as Doug shows in this keynote, achieving food security doesn’t have to be difficult, and it can be downright fun. That is, if you can keep your goats out of the rose bushes and your solar panels from electrocuting you, something Doug has never quite accomplished. In fact, you can do it in your backyard, on a city roof, or on the lawn outside your workplace.

    Based on Doug Fine's new book, American Hemp Farmer, which launched as Amazon’s #1 new release in agriculture and immediately was nominated for the 2021 Santa Fe Reporter’s prestigious Book of the Year, with elements from Farewell, My Subaru, Doug’s local living classic, this delicious live event is both a practical and feel good one. Best of all, the event brings attendees, via wildly colorful storytelling and slides, right inside Doug's fragrant, permitted hemp and vegetable field on the Funky Butte Ranch in New Mexico.

    With large numbers of people wanting to understand food supply chain security, there is suddenly a critical mass of prospective first time gardeners in all demographics eager for knowledge about where to start. Step by step, Doug (dressed in homemade hemp and linen clothing, of course), explains why it makes sense to plant hemp (and other protein• and nutrient-dense crops) now. He gives practical soil building tips, seed sourcing advance, and tales of being outsmarted a locavore coyote he named Dick Cheney.

    A strong appeal of this event is that Doug walks the walk: he is equipped to offer food security advice to non-professional farmers (regular folks), because he is one himself. Raised on Long Island long before becoming a goat-and-hemp rancher out West, he's written about his efforts at food security in the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post and NPR. He’s even done a TED Talk and appeared on Conan O’Brien to talk about it.

    Home-schooling his kids in a ranch in the middle of nowhere, Doug walks the walk, talks the talk, and looks every inch the regenerative hemp farmer that he is. He is out to teach us how to save ourselves and humanity, or die trying (especially when his solar panels nearly electrocute him).

Doug Fine Speaker Videos

  • Doug Fine: All about Hemp | Cannabis University 2018
    About Doug Fine: Doug FIne is an American bestseller author, journalist, hemp expert and goat farmer has been on our wish list for a long time. In 2011, Doug Fine moved for a year to Mendocino...
    NoCo Hemp Expo 2016 - Doug Fine Keynote
    #LetsTalkHemp @ #NoCoHempExpo 2016 Let's Talk Hemp Theater Room State Of The Hemp Industry 2016 Hosted by Doug Fine
  • Cannabis Expert Doug Fine Interview Pt 1 - CONAN on TBS
    The "Too High to Fail" author makes the case for marijuana legalization.

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