—J. Dean Norton, Director of Horticulture, George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate

"American Hemp Farmer would have been in George Washington’s library. President Washington grew hemp and was a passionate, regenerative agriculturist. Washington sought advice from those that practiced their trade. Doug Fine‘s American Hemp Farmer is a scholarly, practical and impeccably enjoyable work and a must-read for those who cultivate hemp or are interested in leaping in.”  

—J. Dean Norton, Director of Horticulture, George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate.

~Washington Post

Fine is a…storyteller in the mold of…Douglas Adams.

~Washington Post

~Willie Nelson

Hemp Bound is the best book of the year. The issue is simple: farmers need hemp, the soil needs hemp, forests need hemp, and humanity needs the plant that the good Lord gave us for our own survival. Hemp Bound tells us with detail and humor how to get to the environmental Promised Land. Doug has created a blueprint for the America of the future.

~Willie Nelson

~Dr. William Martin

In Hemp Bound, Doug Fine convincingly describes the proven value and amazing potential of the non-psychoactive variety of the cannabis plant. You can eat it, drink it, read it, tie it, wear it, drive it, live in it, and make money growing it, all while saving the soil and protecting the climate. This is an important story, engagingly told.

~Dr. William Martin, Senior Fellow, Drug Policy, Rice University's Baker Institute, Houston, Texas

~Eric Steenstra

With American Hemp Farmer, Doug Fine shows he is not just our preeminent hemp author, he is one of the most important authors of our time. As I’ve watched him leap between tending goats on his Funky Butte Ranch and hemp fields in Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont and who-knows-where else, it sometimes occurs to me that he might be the most interesting man alive. The resulting book is an absolute must read. 

~Eric Steenstra, Executive Director, VoteHemp

~Gene Logsdon

I never dreamed industrial hemp had so much promise until I read Doug Fine's Hemp Bound. The book is not only fun to read, but it passes along fascinating insights about a farm crop that produces many food and fiber products is adapted to areas where corn and soybeans are rarely profitable. As the author points out with gracious good humor, industrial hemp is not medical marijuana, and it should become a major farm crop in America as it has elsewhere. ~Gene Logsdon, author of Gene Everlasting and Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind

~Publisher’s Weekly

In his entertaining new book…(Fine) successfully illuminates an unusual world where cannabis growers sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to (friendly law enforcement) while crossing their fingers against the threat of federal raids.This informative book will give even hardened drug warriors pause.

~Publisher’s Weekly

~Salon

A chuckle or a wry grin is waiting on every page, if not each paragraph. It’s the kind of humor that builds gradually, that sneaks up on you with such stealth that you hardly even realize what a good time you’re having until it’s all over. By the end of Farewell, My Subaru you can think of nothing that would seem like more fun than hanging out at Fine’s ranch, vainly striving to keep his goats from eating the rose bushes. Think James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small — updated as appropriate for the iPod generation.

~Salon

~Santa Cruz Sentinel

Fine is Bryson funny.

~Santa Cruz Sentinel

~Cary Giguere,

I hope every hemp farmer and policymaker reads American Hemp Farmer carefully. It details a roadmap for success, for farmers and the planet. And that’s probably because Doug doesn’t just write about hemp, he lives it.

~Cary Giguere, hemp program coordinator, Vermont Agency of Agriculture

~Bill McKibben

The details of Doug Fine’s experiment in green living are great fun…what we are built for. It’ll make you want to move!

~Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

~Bookpage

Fine survives drought, biblical floods, and UN-hating [ranchers] as he gradually becomes ’solarized’ …along the way readers will root for this dry sharp wit and his rosy green dream. Fine’s funny struggle to become a better world citizen will entertain both the eco-aware, and those who doze peacefully in their home’s formaldehyde fumes.

~Bookpage

~Bill Maher in The New York Times

Fine has written a well-researched book that uses the clever tactic of making the moral case for ending marijuana prohibition by burying it inside the economic case.

~Bill Maher in The New York Times