Fairbanks is shaping up to be the center of Alaska's marijuana industry
On a warm, cloudless Memorial Day, Mike Emers surveyed his domain at Rosie Creek Farm. Emers has owned the family farm for 16 years, a spacious plot cut from the Interior Alaska wilderness. It was the last day the farm would exist in its current iteration. After that, its transformation to a cannabis growing facility would begin.
The next day, an 8-foot fence went up around the perimeter, satisfying part of the state's security requirements for the new legal marijuana industry.
Perhaps as important for Emers, the fence will keep moose out of the potentially lucrative cannabis crop.
"I'm going to plant them like broccoli," Emers said, standing in front of the 1.5 acres of tilled land where he plans to grow cannabis. He says he'll plant thousands of the plants in large high tunnels.
Emers is one of 33 growers who have gotten a zoning permit from the Fairbanks North Star Borough.
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