Who we are

The iHemp NSW Inc. offers our Individual, Business and Corporate Members ongoing educational and agronomic support while facilitating critical networking and community events. The iHemp NSW team are driving the next wave of necessary legislative change through strategic lobbying efforts with key policy makers and stakeholders. Our aim is to promote more sustainable agriculture and continued development to increase the use of hemp as a renewable source of food, fibre, fodder and extracts.

Our Committee

Jaimie Milling

Board Member – President

Jaimie Milling is a fourth-generation farmer who has been in the agriculture industry all his life.

He has a Farm Business Management Degree and for 35-years he has owned and managed large broad acre mixed farm operations across NSW. Jaimie also has extensive experience in the agriculture industry both domestically and internationally, having worked in Africa, UK and Europe, as well as in Queensland and the Northern Territory.

He is the co-founder of Canna Hemp Care Pty Ltd, one of the larger hemp growers in NSW, with commercial crops of 20-to-200 hectares. They have strong existing relationships with hemp food and Fibre processors and markets both nationally and overseas, and heavily involved in hemp fibre crop growing, marketing and processing.

Karen Kirkby

Board Member – Treasurer

Dr Karen Kirkby is an experienced plant pathologist and has a long history of working collaboratively both nationally and internationally within the agricultural industry. Karen has worked for NSW Department Primary Industries, Biosecurity and Food Safety as a plant pathologist based at the Australian Cotton Research Institute, Narrabri since 2010, specialising in pathogens of agronomically important crops.

Over the last four years, Karen has worked on a collaborative project using industrial hemp as a model crop to investigate biological management strategies to control target pathogens causing disease in medicinal cannabis.

This research is extremely important as patient health is vital, meaning any treatment applied to medicinal cannabis plants must not have any chemical residue. After undergoing five months of chemotherapy herself, Karen has benefited from the use of medicinal cannabis to alleviate side effects caused from her ongoing treatment. Karen is passionate about solving disease issues and making a real difference to the sustainability of both the industrial hemp and medicinal cannabis industries.

Elke Jacobsen

Board Member – Secretary

Elke Jacobsen is a registered architect and a passionate advocate for environmentally responsible design. Throughout her career, she has contributed to leading design firms in Sydney and is actively engaged in architectural education, tutoring, and research.

With growing momentum behind sustainable building materials, she is particularly focused on housing and the use of natural, bio-based construction solutions. Through advocacy, education, and industry support, Elke is committed to advancing the role of industrial hemp and fostering its adoption as a mainstream construction material. She believes industrial hemp holds immense potential to address the urgent need for innovative, low-carbon materials in the built environment.

Connie Minos

Board Member – Executive Officer

Connie Minos grew up in the agricultural and forestry industries in northwest NSW and has spent the last 20 years working on and off farm with husband Leon Minos and their two daughters. With a strong interest in community development and qualifications in Social Science Connie worked in various human service departments within the QLD and NSW State Governments in case work, project and management roles for 15 years.

In 2008 she and Leon decided to grow hemp on their small farm in an attempt to replace lost industry in their rural area. With a lack of processing options available to them, Connie and Leon designed and built their own hemp processor and expanded further in the industry in 2021 to manufacturing their Ashford Hemp Processors to sell nationally and internationally. Connie is particularly interested in how hemp can be utilised in primary health care and early intervention in relation to community health, housing, education, and employment, and is always keen to collaborate where able.

Lisa Flower

Board Member – Public Officer & Executive Officer

Lisa has an extensive career in communications, marketing, project management and event management in both the private and public sector. Lisa’s key focus is on long term sustainability, circular economy and healthy and thriving communities.

Lisa has jumped into the vast and exciting world of industrial hemp and is passionate about hemp solving some of our pressing problems, including regenerative farming, carbon sequestration, soil remediation, developing sustainable building products, hemp for health and omega rich foods and hemp for textiles. And that is just the tip of the iceberg. Now to educate and inspire the masses to jump on board the hemp-express!

Kieren Anderson

Sub-committee – Social Media

Kieren is a lover of the natural world and wants to preserve it. He advocates for all life on earth & has a particular passion for plants and the medicinal properties they harness. Kieren is a valued communicator in the Australian hemp community and helps with social media, marketing, writing and photography.

iHemp NSW Privacy Policy

IHemp NSW is committed to promoting the hemp industry in New South Wales by providing support and networking for hemp growers, hemp processors and other interested parties. We respect your privacy and this policy outlines our ongoing obligations to you in respect of how we manage your Personal Information.

We have adopted the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy Act). The NPPs govern the way in which we collect, use, disclose, store, secure and dispose of your Personal Information.

A copy of the Australian Privacy Principles may be obtained from the website of The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at www.oaic.gov.au

What is Personal Information and why do we collect it?

Personal Information is information or an opinion that identifies an individual. Examples of Personal Information we collect include: names, addresses, email addresses, phone and facsimile numbers.

This Personal Information is obtained in many ways including correspondence, by telephone and facsimile, by email, via our website, from your website, from media and publications, from other publicly available sources and from website cookies. We cannot guarantee website links or policy of authorised third parties.

We collect your Personal Information for the primary purpose of providing our services to you or where you have agreed sharing it with other parties. We may also use your Personal Information for secondary purposes closely related to the primary purpose, in circumstances where you would reasonably expect such use or disclosure. You may unsubscribe from our mailing lists at any time by selecting “unsubscribe” or you may request that we remove any website correspondence collected via our Contact form.

When we collect Personal Information we will, where appropriate and where possible, explain to you why we are collecting the information and how we plan to use it.

Third Parties

Where reasonable and practicable to do so, we will collect your Personal Information only from you. However, in some circumstances we may be provided with information by third parties. In such a case we will take reasonable steps to ensure that you are made aware of the information provided to us by the third party.

Disclosure of Personal Information

Your Personal Information may be disclosed in a number of circumstances including the following:

Third parties where you consent to the use or disclosure; and
Where required or authorised by law.

Security of Personal Information

Your Personal Information is stored in a manner that reasonably protects it from misuse and loss and from unauthorized access, modification or disclosure.

When your Personal Information is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was obtained, we will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify your Personal Information. However, some Personal Information may be stored in client files which will be kept by us for a minimum of 7 years.

Access to your Personal Information

You may access the Personal Information we hold about you and to update and/or correct it, subject to certain exceptions. If you wish to access your Personal Information, please contact us in writing via email

Maintaining the Quality of your Personal Information

It is an important to us that your Personal Information is up to date. We will take reasonable steps to make sure that your Personal Information is accurate, complete and up-to-date. If you find that the information we have is not up to date or is inaccurate, please advise us as soon as practicable so we can update our records and ensure we can continue to provide quality services to you.

Policy Updates

This Policy may change from time to time and is available on our website.

Privacy Policy Complaints and Enquiries

If you have any queries or complaints about our Privacy Policy please contact us at: info@ihempnsw.org.au