They’re Betting the Family Farm on Cannabis

By Elizabeth G. Dunn, The New York Times on February 17, 2023

The Hepworth sisters are famous in the organic food world, but like other farmers, they’re struggling. They hope their new venture will change things.

Come summer, the warehouse at Hepworth Farms will be filled with Cherokee Purples, Pink Berkeley Tie-Dyes and dozens more of the heirloom tomato varieties produced by this seventh-generation family farm in New York’s Hudson Valley.

But this winter, the space is piled high with something else: cannabis flower.

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