"We see an ever-increasing interest in hydroponic growing"

"Ever since I was a little boy, my dad took me to the greenhouses where he worked. From a very young age I knew everything about growing tomatoes: the planting, the seedlings, taking care of the growth, and picking them," says Quentin Gomis. He has just been hired as the new commercial manager for…

"The number of micro-growers/home growers is exploding"

While the rest of the world seemed to stand still in 2020, newly established Houweling-Dutch Plantin Ltd. did anything but that. Formed as a joint venture between two Dutch companies (Houweling Group and Dutch Plantin) in 2019, Houweling Dutch Plantin Ltd. (H-DP) is an Ontario-based company currently…

Navaya

From the after-market automotive industry to multilevel cannabis production

What was once an automotive parts plant in Boisbriand, Quebec is now a multi-level cannabis production facility called Navaya. With initial plans to grow, package, and sell flowers to intermediaries in the medical community or product developers, Navaya aims to become the world’s leading and trusted…

US (CO): Pitkin County-based grower to stop growing hemp to end dispute

Despite spending millions of dollars through its open space program over the past decade to promote farming and ranching, Pitkin County created new rules Wednesday to regulate hemp cultivation. The county commissioners voted 4-1 to require site-specific, annual review for hemp operations. Hemp is now one…

First grower in Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands to start growing cannabis

Victor D. Cabrera, who started running his family’s farm 20 years ago after graduating from college, is now the first person in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands allowed to grow cannabis for the commonwealth’s fledgling recreational cannabis industry. “I’m an indoor grower,” said Cabrera,…

US (PA): From family law attorney to cannabis grower

Eric Trajtenberg’s dress code for work has changed quite a bit since he left the courthouse for the greenhouse. Gone are the briefcase, smooth shave, suit and tie of a lawyer. Today, his beard grows freely, his clothes are a bit dirty and he wears a baseball cap to “the office.” In October 2019,…

US (NJ): Denville-based facility to install air filtration 'to be a good neighbor'

Denville Town Council members and Mayor Thomas Andes discussed during the council's Feb 16 meeting the issue of odor emanating from TerrAscend, a facility that cultivates medical cannabis in neighboring Boonton Township. Denville residents have been complaining about a foul smell since the facility's…

Premier Tech Horticulture

Producing medicinal hemp is about more than yield: "It's just really gratifying."

In 2019, Heritage Farmacy (Crawfordsville, IN) participated in a pilot program launched by the state of Indiana. The program permitted the production of industrial hemp, which could then be used to produce extracts like CBD oil, following specific criteria. As part of the pilot program, Mark Davidson,…

Good Day Farm

US (TN): A Dickson-based MMJ grower to expand in different states

Dickson-based Good Day Farm owner Eric Thornton is expanding his cannabis operation. However, the growth is not in his home state of Tennessee.  Thornton, and his partners, have looked to surrounding Southeastern states where medical cannabis has been legalized. Last month, Good Day Farm Arkansas broke ground…

US (CAN): ALPS Signs $1.9M facility contract with Bluehouse Greenhouse

Australis Capital Inc. announced today that ALPS - a company in the process of being acquired by AUSA - through its wholly owned subsidiary Larssen Greenhouse Consulting…

"We can be growing in the middle of winter or the dead of summer, the plants don’t know the difference"

Michigan has had legal recreational cannabis for about two years, and business is booming. In 2020 alone, sales reached $500 million. WSBT 22's Katlin Connin went to Fello Cannabis in Galien to see what it takes to grow all that cannabis. Growing cannabis is a lot different from growing a houseplant. The…