Danny Desjarlais, Guest

Danny Desjarlais is Project Manager of Lower Sioux Industrial Hemp Construction at Lower Sioux Community in southwest Minnesota. Danny is a dedicated and experienced Natural Builder with a passion for sustainable construction methods and a commitment to creating eco-friendly structures for Lower Sioux Community members to call home. Danny says, “We are the original caretakers of this land being Indigenous … we’ve gone so far away from taking care of Mother Earth. We hadn’t grown any plants here since before contact. Once contacted they took all our farming and we hadn’t farmed since we started growing hemp. It’s really quite amazing how it’s been a big full circle moment.”