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In terms of infrastructure, the Project will have a traditional Haudenosaunee longhouse, which is the sisters’ first goal. Traditionally, longhouses are infrastructures in which usually more than one family, if not a whole clan would live in. Usually, longhouses are built “with pole frames and elm bark covering” but for this project, the three sisters are planning to build it with hempcrete, thanks to a collaboration with Escher Design, Inc. an architectural firm based in Dorset, Vermont. According to Alex Escher, Director of Hemp Development at Escher Design, hempcrete has several benefits which will make the 3SSP Longhouse an example of more sustainable housing. “Hemp has the fastest CO2 to biomass conversion ratio found in nature, even more than agroforestry, as well as hempcrete, which also sequesters more CO2 than is emitted during its production.