About Us
Northern Rivers Hemp is an association with hundreds of members. We are people who are passionate about hemp.
Each year at the Annual General Meeting an executive committee is elected. These people meet at least four times a year, currently more often and maintain the core functions of association and seek to realise it’s goals.
The Current Executive Group.
Klara Marosszeky is the Secretary of NRHA Inc. She has been a licensed hemp grower since 1999 and is currently working with the Ashford community in central western NSW, to develop the region as a hemp growing area for NSW. She grew hemp there under commercial licence in 2010 and also trialled a dryland crop at Tatham in the Northern Rivers region. She has a strong interest in sustainable farming and a background in Landcare.
Klara has developed an affordable hemp lime building material for Australian conditions using local resources, with a goal to address social housing needs. The material is suited to both owner builder and commercial construction and uses simple monolithic design to construct thermally efficient, low carbon footprint homes. This process is being documented in an e-book, “How to Build a Hemp House” which she is publishing with Paul Benhaim, internationally known hemp innovator and entrepreneur.
Klara is currently a Program Manager for Ecologically Sustainable Initiatives for TAFE North Coast institute where she is also a teacher.
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Deb Felton is a Founding Executive Member NRHA she shares NRHA secretary position.
Deb is a Hemp grower. This season she grew four varieties of NRHA seed. Including two successive generations of a Chinese landrace variety measuring THC variations and seed yields.
She is committed to ethical sustainable hemp growing, harvesting and production.
Her qualifications include RN NZ, BA Communications UTS, BA Law MACU, Grad Dip Education UCan, Cert IV Trainer, Masters Indigenous Studies Ginibi.
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Kenrick Riley is the President of NRHA. He was among the first to get a licence to grow hemp commercially in NSW. He is currently growing certified organic hemp at his farm “Wiccawood” in Georgica, NSW.
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Dr Keith Bolton is the founder and managing director of Ecotechnology Australia. Keith is best known for his role in the Byron Effluent Reuse Wetland where 750,000 trees were planted to manage Byron Bay’s sewage effluent and the North Coast Mop Crop Project which involved the irrigation of resource water (sewage effluent) on to a fibre crops such as hemp, bamboo and kenaf.
Keith is a leader in the development of ecotechnology in the rarefied innovative environment of the North Coast of Australia. He is Project Manager of the Centre for Ecotechnology at Southern Cross University.
He has a Bachelor of Agricultural Science and PhD in Environmental Engineering.
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Andrew Kavasilas is the Treasurer of NRHA. He is also involved in the plant breeding program.
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Guy Stewart is the webmaster for northernrivershemp.org and on the executive committee.