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said George. And, the company is  estimated project cost of $5-8 million, it will require
        looking at a new product – hemp.   another round of fundraising for George. He’s not
        Second Chances Farm was one of              worried about the prospects for the hemp farm as
        the first in Delaware to obtain a           the market for CBD products has exploded in the
        state license to grow the non-nar-          past few years. “That’s much easier actually to raise.

        cotic version of cannabis. It has           Hemp is black gold. We expect to be serious hemp
        grown a small hydroponic trial of           growers.”
        hemp plans that have produced

        promising results.


        According to Todd Ericson, chief
        growing officer at  Second Chanc-
        es Farm, “the industry standard for

        hemp yield was 1 gram of flower
        per planting . . . the trial run pro-
        duced 2 to 5 grams per planting.

        With hyrdoponically grown plans
        able to be harvested every eight
        weeks we are looking at a revenue
        boon for the plant that creates the
        therapeutic cannabidiol (CBD) but

        not the narcotic THC.” With an
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