Our Story

KonopiUS is a group of international hemp industry specialists who have merged together to better bring certified hemp varieties from the European Union plant variety database to American Farmers. KonopiUS brings over 40 years experience in the hemp industry and have imported industrial hemp seed to America for the past 7 years. Their core belief is every American Farmer should have available a stable and superior hemp seed genetics supply for fiber & grain production. In 2022, KonopiUS became the US distributor for HEMP-it seeds.

The passion behind konopiUS centers around a trustworthy network of European plant breeders who standby rigorous breeding programs. Decades of trial research goes into each variety available. KonopiUS translates and studies the research, bringing you knowledge and guidance.

KonopiUS has made great strides in bringing European certified hemp strains to many different states for the first time in history. To this date, seeds are sold and sowed in the following states: Colorado, New York, Vermont, Maryland, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kansas, Nebraska, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Texas, Oregon, Oklahoma, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, Illinois, New Jersey and Washington State. If your state is not listed please contact us. We’d love to hear from you, and help you get started.

Meet the team

Hana Gabrielová is a 25-year veteran within the hemp and cannabis industry with an academic background in agriculture. Her company Hempoint, founded in 2010, has experience with farming and processing hemp as well as production and distribution of a variety of hemp food and animal feed products. In 2023 Hempoint became an affiliate partner with Ukrainian Hemp. Hana works also as president of the CzecHemp cluster, a board member of EIHA and member of Cannabis Embassy. In 2024 she started work on a new project for complex processing industrial hemp in Central Europe called Ecostem.

Robin Destiche is a passionate hemp entrepreneur on a journey that began in the Himalayas when he discovered the local villages using hemp fiber and grain for clothing, food and hempcrete. He then moved to Europe to learn and work more closely with industrial hemp. Robin works with businesses up and down the hemp supply chain. He works with members from the National Industrial Hemp Council (NIHC), Hemp Feed Coalition, and ASTM. He has a passion for service and communication that he brings to the hemp industry after spending over a decade in the tourism and hospitality industry.

Bert James is a multi-generational farmer from North Carolina who became interested in adding industrial hemp to his crop rotation for better soil health and management. He studied farming and education at NC State and began to survey row crops as a profession, including: cotton, soy and wheat. It made sense for him to add industrial hemp to crop rotations for better soil health and balanced farming practices. Bert has spent most of his life in agriculture in a number of roles on and off the field.

Corbett Miteff has a background in art and education, along with roots in international business & trade. In 2016 he had the idea of making paper and canvas from hemp fibers. This started Hemp Seed Warehouse and the search for reliable hemp genetics that could supply American pulp and textile industries. In 2024 he became partial owner in GreenKey, a sustainable pulp technology for converting biomass into pulp and nanocellulose. Corbett is an active member of ASTM, TAPPI, NIHC and Hemp Alliance of Tennessee.