Local craft cannabis grower readies to go to market Mark Nielsen
Early October promises to be a watershed moment for Tara Kirkpatrick. She operates Backwoods BC Bud, which appears to be the first craft cannabis grower to be up and running in the Prince George area, and she is aiming to have four lines of her product on the market by that time. "I'm excited, I'm living out my dream," she said during inter-
view over the phone Kirkpatrick is no newcomer to the industry. For 19 years she has grown medical marijuana and takes credit for a strain she says has helped reduce epileptic seizures. "I've been a farmer my whole life," Kirkpatrick said. "I grew up on a farm and it was a natural gravitation, going from vegetables to different types of plants. "Cannabis was one of the things
I wanted to grow and study and research and develop because most of our medicines are made from plants. It was just one of my key interests and the fact that I really like to help people." Charles Wentworth of Nibbler, a consulting firm who guided Kirkpatrick through the process of securing a licence for smallscale production from Health Canada, said his client is part of a trend across Canada of farms
turning to cannabis to keep them in the family. "It is a way to revitalize the existing legacy family farm that's been there for multiple generations by simply changing what the farm produces from one crop to another type of crop," he said. "What it does is it allows these farms to become commercially viable again so they can be handed onto the next generation rather than being sold on
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