{"id":8155,"date":"2018-03-23T18:36:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T18:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2994966&amp;preview_id=2994966"},"modified":"2018-03-23T18:36:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T18:36:48","slug":"hemp-operation-opens-in-historic-lafayette-florist-greenhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/hemp-operation-opens-in-historic-lafayette-florist-greenhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemp operation opens in historic Lafayette Florist greenhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/hemp-operation-opens-in-historic-lafayette-florist-greenhouse\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<p>An agricultural biotechnology company has launched a hemp grow operation in a newly renovated greenhouse space on the grounds of the historic Lafayette Florist.<\/p>\n<p>Lafayette-based Front Range Biosciences rented the 12,000-square-foot greenhouse \u2014 which had been used to grow flowers since the 1970s \u2014 and is growing industrial hemp clones to be sold to other growers.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"article-related right\">\n<h3>Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Jon Vaught, Front Range Biosciences co-founder and CEO, said the operation will soon be operating at full capacity, producing 75,000 hemp rooted cuttings per month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur focus is on (growing) the highest quality plant-starts \u2014 healthy, disease-free, pesticide-free,\u201d he said. \u201d \u2026 Then we distribute them to the growers and they go do what they do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The iconic family-owned Lafayette Florist will continue normal retail operations in the space adjacent to the greenhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timescall.com\/business\/ci_31751323\/hemp-operation-opens-storied-lafayette-florist-greenhouse\">TimesCall.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent\">This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p>\n<p>&#013; &#013; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An agricultural biotechnology company has launched a hemp grow operation in a newly renovated greenhouse space on the grounds of the historic Lafayette Florist. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6811,55,77,9,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[6816,2635,2655,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}