The harvest of 60,000 cannabis plants is underway in Rock Creek, B.C., in what is expected to be one of the largest legal outdoor marijuana crops in North America.
The 24 hectacres of marijuana at the SpeakEasy Cannabis Company’s farm are kept secure behind a large chain-link fence equipped with surveillance and motion sensor cameras and barbed wire overhang.
Over the next few weeks, workers will harvest an expected 70,000 kilograms of marijuana.
“As far as we know, as best we can tell, this will be the largest harvest in Canadian history,” said farmer Marc Geen, founder of SpeakEasy.
Geen comes from a family of farmers that has been growing horticultural crops for five generations in the Okanagan.
In 1995, his family purchased agricultural land in Rock Creek where Geen first grew commercial ginseng and then cherries.
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