Dressed in T-shirts, blue jeans and ballcaps, the guys at Bold Growth are almost indistinguishable from other young farmers in the province. But they’re growing something new and different.
Andrew Condin, chief executive officer, and Spencer Veikle, chief operating officer, of Bold Growth might view cannabis as just another crop, but the intensive labour required to grow it and the plants’ use after harvest set cannabis apart.
“The plant care throughout its growing cycle is always a ton of hand care. So things like removing the extra leaves to help get better light penetration through the plant and to the flowers and then constantly looking for plants that look sickly, you want to remove that right away and not let that have an opportunity to kind of breed sickness,” says Veikle. “Even the harvest part of it is going to be by hand.”
Two companies, Bold Growth and Canopy Growth, have started growing cannabis outdoors in Saskatchewan this year, but their approaches to the first year of legal outdoor growing varies.
Bold Growth started with a 600-plant test plot to see how the plants would react to the soil. Its plan is to expand to its 15-acre fenced and secured field next year and its slow expansion into its 220 acres pending licensing.
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