The door is wide open for a possible new cash crop in Florida, and that's hemp.
Now that it's legal for farmers to grow hemp in the Sunshine State, Jean Sebastian Gros wants to be one of the first farmers to grow it in Palatka.
He was going to grow lettuce on the 30 acre Marineland Aquaponics farm in East Palatka, "but when hemp became available, we shifted our plan to also accommodate hemp," he said.
This spring, the Florida legislature passed a bill allowing Florida farmers to grow hemp.
"Nobody expected Florida to pass a hemp bill so quickly," Gros said.
But he and his business partners have been preparing for that move, and they have big plans already laid out with blueprints.
They will grow hemp and shrimp in one big collaborative way.
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