For the past eight years, Shawn Cooney of Corner Stalk Farms has been quietly growing fresh green-leaf vegetables inside old shipping containers that have been repurposed to grow year-round crops down on Condor Street along Chelsea Creek.
At last week’s Eagle Hill Civic Association meeting Cooney said he’s revisiting his plan to begin growing cannabis here in East Boston and will be seeking a grow license from the state.
Corner Stalk specializes in using Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA). Inside the shipping containers, cannabis will be grown with hydroponics, a soil-less growing method that allows the cultivation of plants using recirculated water with optimum nutrient inputs.
“Currently we at Corner Stalk Farm produce lettuce and herbs for sale and in 2018 we got our hemp license from the US Department of Agriculture for the cultivation and manufacturing of hemp products on the same space under Cloud Farming Llc.,” said Cooney at the meeting. “We’ve been growing (hemp) in this space since 2018 with no security problems. We’re modular so we can isolate our hemp production, and future cannabis production, from our lettuce and greens production.”
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