AND in a good climate region, it can produce two or three harvests per year! Bugs hate it, nothing eats it, weeds don't stand a chance as it naturally smothers/chokes out everything where it grows, and only pretty much needs sunlight and water! NOTHING lasts as long in salt water which is why shipping still uses only hemp rope exclusively, and then for a real shocker, check out the difference in hemp and wood for papermaking!