After spending 45 years working at IBM, Gordon Horner, a supply chain manager, and his friend Adam McPadden, an electrical engineer, decided to start a cannabis cultivation company. Both friends decided to "give this thing a shot," in support of their entrepreneurial spirits.
The growing is done on a homestead that Horner's father purchased in the 1960s. "My dad had a farmstand, and a large nursery business selling plants," said Horner. The land had been a grower/greenhouse business for generations until it shut its doors in 2011 due to warehouse competition.
Horner is expected to have his retail license by the end of the month with hopes of nurturing the tradition of his family history of Vermont-based cultivators.
"We're trying to tell that history with photos and information about the photos," said Horner.
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