What happens when a retired electrical engineer, supply chain manager, and young entrepreneur come together to start a company? Well, you get VT Green Castle Reserve, also known as Green Castle, located in Johnson.
Gordy Horner was an employee at IBM for 45 years and was ready to retire. He had some land that had been in his family from the time when his family ran a vegetable farm on the land. When Horner asked his friend Adam McPadden, who was tired of being behind a desk and on the verge of retirement, if he wanted to help start a cannabis-growing operation, McPadden gladly accepted. Although it was the last thing he ever thought he would do, creating a grow operation from scratch intrigued Mcpadden's engineering mind. While McPadden has figured out much of the technical, equipment side of the operation, Horner's son Scott is head of grow operations.
"The property that we are currently growing on in Johnson is the old homestead my family grew up on. We grew plants and had a general store. Later we sold some land off, and it feels nice to be able to re-acquire the old homestead to keep in the family," said Horner.
When they first started out, Green Castle partnered with Cannacribs, a cannabis podcasting network, to learn best practices in running an indoor cannabis grow operation.
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