Another greenhouse vegetable grower is lending his expertise to the growing number of companies with plans to produce medical marijuana in Canada.
Peter Quiring, owner and CEO of NatureFresh Farms, Leamington, Ontario, is the CEO of GreenhouseCo., a joint venture with Quiring and Wheaton Income. Quiring, who also founded greenhouse fabricating company South Essex Fabicrating Inc., will oversee construction of the new company’s 1.4-million-square-foot cannabis greenhouse in Leamington.
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The 102-acre site has room to double to 2.8 million square feet of production, according to a news release.
The company will also seek “international cannabis-related greenhouse cultivation opportunities for joint development” and license GreenhouseCo.’s intellectual property for facility design and operation information, according to the release.
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