A farm family from southeast Saskatchewan has turned to a new plant, and is one of the first in the province to do so.
Trent Emmel, who farms lentils, canola, durum and more in the Bromhead area, is the president of T8 Cannabis, which is just the second micro cultivation cannabis project in Saskatchewan. He has been partnering with Charles Wentworth of Nibbler, a consulting firm that has helped T8 through the process of securing its licence.
He wanted to expand the family farm, but land is hard to acquire. If he could grow crop in the fields, why not inside a canopy, where it would be climate controlled.
“Then I kept researching more and more what cannabis is doing for people, and it just drove me harder and harder to make it succeed,” said Emmel. T8 is fully licensed and has had some sales already, but the majority of the crop was sold for medical testing purposes. The company earned its licence on Dec. 6, 2019.
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