Hemp Shop News

Hemps shops are key to the hemp movement. Months ago we welcomed the new arrival, Houdek House, located at 201 W. College Avenue in Appleton, Wisconsin - and they are doing a brisk trade. This week Mina Hegaard of Minawear will be on hand personally to meet customers - her father was born in Appleton, and a sister still lives there.

 

And last month one of the longest serving hemp establishments in the hemp world changed their location - Still Eagle of Nelson, British Columbia. See notice below:

 

PLEASE NOTE: we have moved around the corner to a brighter, better, bigger, and more central location on Nelson's Baker Street.

Till June 30 visit our Final Clearance Sale at the old Ward St location.

Our new address:

Still Eagle

476 Baker st

Nelson BC

V1L 4H8

Phone, email and web are the same:

Phone: 250-352-3844
Web: stilleagle.com
E: orders@stilleagle.com

Houdek Hemp House to open in Appleton, Wisconsin

A new hemp shop is to open in Appleton, Wisconsin, the town famous for Senator Joe McCarthey. It happens to be the town from where Mina Hegaard's dad is from, she and I have been there on occasion - and naturally, Wisconsin was a hemp growing state, perhaps the last state to have grown hemp legally in the US as they continued on after WWII.

Written by

Maureen Wallenfang

 

Houdek Hemp House is the novel business taking 201 W. College Ave. The store will be at the corner of Appleton Street in the building that previously housed The Vintage Garden, which moved down the street, and before that Avenue Hair Design.
The store is owned by Joe and Penny Houdek, which is pronounced hoe-deck. They signed a lease Wednesday and plan to open sometime in May.
Joe Houdek knows he has some explaining to do when he tells people about the store.
“Some people look at me very strangely,” he said. “They ask ‘Are you going to sell drugs?’ There will be no drugs or paraphernalia. We’re primarily selling hemp clothing for men and women. Hemp has gotten a bad rap because of marijuana. Hemp is not marijuana, but they’re in the same family and the leaf is almost identical. There’s no THC (marijuana’s intoxicating ingredient) in hemp.”
Hemp is legal to import but not to grow in the U.S. It’s currently grown in China, Canada, Romania and Australia.
Houdek says clothing made with the fiber “breathes better than cotton and is very durable.” He says its a sustainable, eco-friendly fiber.
Besides clothing, the store will have hemp-based products including handbags, hats, belts, pet leashes and collars, bulk seed and oil.
“I believe it’s the most beneficial plant on earth,” Houdek said. “It’s something that I’m passionate about. I truly believe that it’s only a matter of time before we allow farmers to grow hemp in this country. I want to be on the forefront of that. I see it as the future.”