As a child, Prattville native Jeffrey Lee remembers playing in cotton fields. These days, his own son and daughter run in a much different crop.
“I’ve sat out there and watched my kids playing in all this hemp growing 10 or 11 foot high,” Lee said. Life as a full-time medicinal hemp farmer in Autauga County’s Booth community isn’t something Lee would had envisioned for his family a couple of years ago.
He’s gone from seeds to shelf with a new line of CBD and CBG products from Alabama Hemp Crafters, the company he runs with childhood friend and licensed pharmacist Neal Jones.
“I probably wouldn’t have done it with anybody else,” Lee said. “I’ve known Neal since we were about 10 or 11.”
“My son and daughter both helped me plant,” Lee said. “My whole family helped me.”
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