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Growing Hemp and Squeezing CBD at a Pueblo Farm

August 8, 2019 13:17PM

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Jacqueline Collins
Veritas Farms uses integrated pest management, which saves it from using pesticides.
Southern Colorado's sunshine and open spaces make it prime for agriculture, and the region has jumped on the hemp and CBD bandwagons. One of the players rising to the top of this new pool of hemp cultivators is Veritas Farms, a 140-acre hemp farm and CBD processing facility in Pueblo, Colorado. With deals to put CBD lotions and balms in Kroger and CVS stores across the country, Veritas was proud to show how much it has grown.

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