Display space
Your products on display at SouthWorks, with brochures for visitors and a wall board showing your company story and specs.
Membership
A New York base to display, sell and make hemp products
Alliance for a Regenerative BioEconomy (AFARE) members are hemp and biomaterials companies, builders, growers, researchers and funders. Membership gives you a place at SouthWorks and a seat in the projects AFARE puts together.
Member benefits
What members get
Presence and market access
Desk and address
A desk at the AFARE offices and a New York mailing address. More office space is available at a separate cost.
AFARE presentations
A place in AFARE presentations to developers, builders, engineers, architects, investors, universities and officials.
Direct sales
AFARE brings members into specific deals from its network. A referral fee applies to sales AFARE originates.
Production, capital and policy
Production space
Sublease space in the Hempcubator at SouthWorks, where AFARE holds the lease, to run a production line.
Incentives and investment
Introductions to local and state officials on grants, tax incentives, and nondilutive and equity investment.
Advocacy
AFARE speaks for its members on the policy issues that decide how much hemp building material New York uses.
Market intelligence
Quarterly briefings on codes, policy, project pipelines, funding rounds and Northeast hemp supply.
Research and projects
Cornell research and genetics
Access to Cornell's hemp breeding program and the USDA hemp seed bank at Cornell AgriTech.
New York code pathway
Code officials, testing labs and engineers working to get hemp block accepted under NY and NYC codes.
Demonstration builds
A place in AFARE pilot structures, producing the New York performance data lenders and developers ask for.
Grant co-applications
Joint applications for state and federal programs that favor or require a nonprofit partner.
Who joins
Builders and building materials
Hemp block, hempcrete, insulation, panel, flooring and truss producers, plus the developers, architects and contractors who use them.
Manufacturers and brands
Companies replacing PFAS and petroleum-based inputs in packaging, coatings, adhesives and more.
Farmers and processors
Growers, co-ops and fiber processors who supply the raw material.
Research, testing and workforce
Universities, campuses, testing labs and trades programs.
Land, environment and capital
Remediation and engineering firms, foundations, impact investors and lenders.
How membership works
- Tell us about your company
- Agree on the terms of membership
- Sign a membership agreement
Onboarding
- Install products, brochures and specs board
- Set up your desk and New York mailing address
- Join AFARE presentations
- Introductions to state and regional officials and developers
- Hempcubator walkthrough and production space scope
- Quarterly market briefings begin
Annual dues from [$500] for startups and growers to [$5,000] for manufacturers.
Join growers, makers, builders and researchers at SouthWorks
Tell us about your work. Dana Thompson, Executive Director, will be in touch.
Questions first? Write to dana@AFARE.earth or call 612-242-9700.