Lineage Hemp

An Indiana Company Defining a Healthier Future for People and the Land
 

“WE CAN'T KEEP 'SUSTAINING' WE NEED TO IMPROVE.”
—SARAH COTTERILL, CO-FOUNDER OF LINEAGE

Launched in 2018, the company is dedicated to pioneering a practice called regenerative agriculture, a practice that has soil at the heart of its mission. 

“Everyone talks about sustainability these days, says Cotterill, but ‘to sustain’ just means to stay the same. The problem is that we can’t stay the same, we need to improve. Regenerative agriculture is a set of systems designed to improve the planets health season by season.”

THEIR FIRST STEP: HEMP. 

Hemp is a bio-accumulator—a complicated word that means to clean the soil by pulling out toxins like pesticides. It is one of the highest-yielding crops on the planet making it the perfect crop to use for carbon sequestration, the process of pulling the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and capturing it in the soil. 

Shortly after the legalization of industrial hemp in 2018, Lineage launched Lineage Hemp Group, a farmer outreach and education program aiming to give farmers the resources to transition from conventional farming to regenerative practices. In 2020 the company will harvest over 750 acres of outdoor hemp and converting it into premium CBD products. 

“Lineage Hemp, is a way for us to support our farmers and to create products that can directly serve our local community,” says Cotterill. The profits they make from CBD sales go back into their farmer programs. Co-founder Jamie Perkins sums up their mission “We are building a completely circular system, one that brings health and value to farmers, consumers, and the planet.”

To learn more about Lineage, visit their website LineageHemp.com or visit the weekly Lineage Winter Farmers Market, starting this November held every Saturday from 10–12pm at 7802 Marsh Road, Indianapolis.