Turlock’s first indoor cannabis cultivation site will soon be up and running in the City’s industrial zone, completing a years-long process for its owner with Turlock roots.
The 20,000-plant grow operation will be the vertically-integrated cannabis hub for JDI Farms, Inc., owned by Darron Silva of Turlock. Silva’s company already operates a smaller greenhouse grow in Patterson as well as dispensaries in Patterson, Oakdale, Empire and soon, Modesto. In the forthcoming 98,770 square-foot operation located at 600 D St. in Turlock, JDI Farms will grow, process, package and distribute cannabis products for their retail locations located in other towns.
Silva, a Turlock High School graduate, had hoped to participate in the City’s Cannabis Pilot Program with an additional retail storefront, but his business fell short in the ranking process for dispensaries selected to operate in Turlock. While JDI Farms was included in the top 10 for the dispensaries allowed in the pilot program, it did not make the top four which were ultimately selected.
Still, to have completed the process of operating Turlock’s first cultivation site is an accomplishment in itself, he said, following the City’s approval of the grow’s conditional use permit earlier this month.
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