How two Leamington growers became Canada’s lowest cost producer of medicinal marijuana

In 2013, renowned Leamington greenhouse growers John Cervini of Lakeside Produce and Cole Cacciavillani of CF Flowers, founded Aphria; the first and still the only 100% licensed medical marijuana greenhouse operation in Canada. We know that we have published a lot about this topic lately, but we would like to bring Aphria's professional approach once more into the spotlight, as the growers transferred years of knowledge from flower and vegetable cultivation into a 22,000 square feet advanced commercial glasshouse operation for the legal cultivation of high quality medical cannabis.

We asked Chris Kiritsis, marketing and communications manager at Aphria, about the challenges greenhouse growers are faced with. His response: the cultivation and production of medical cannabis is much different from what traditional greenhouse growers are used to. The need for specialized positions within the organizations that are unique to the cannabis industry arise when dealing with a product that is...

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