Cannabis

Director of Cultivation

Cultivation | Farming | Cannabis

Kelly C.

Kelly has extensive experience in sustainable cannabis cultivation, from craft to large scale since 2002. Her aptitude and passion for cannabis makes her an expert on high quality, clean product; her experience gives an accurate understanding of cost effective, on-time GMPs.  In 2002, she began craft-cultivating medicinal cannabis under CA’s Compassionate Use Act for friends suffering from HIV while in Los Angeles, CA.  In 2006, she founded a prop 215 medical grow on a 9 ac. farm with indoor/ grow in Napa, CA. Employing 10/15 seasonal workers, this experience was Kelly’s training ground where she learned seed to sale supply chain, navigated/ corrected mistakes, develop breeding protocols while producing outstanding cultivars in a highly competitive and often volatile market.  After 10 yrs., Kelly moved to Oregon to work at Rec Tier 1, 6 acre AVO Farms. Kelly gained experience with large scale harvesting while participating in all aspects of the greenhouse/ outdoor cultivation. OR’s strict organic cultivation standards required Kelly to acquire protocols for handling certified organic materials while implementing stringent IPMS and she also became proficient on Metrc.   Kelly then moved back to CA, where she became the DOC of a licensed Adult Use operation in Oakland CA, responsible for the build out of a 75,000 sq/ft, 3,000 light indoor facility. Kelly oversaw the purchasing and set up of equipment, drafted SOPs and was responsible for selecting the third-party inventory control system and trained in Trellis, BioTrack and MJFreeway.  In Spring 2019, she contracted to the first THC focused grow facility in Macedonia, working within the stringent EU GMP standards. The focus of her contract was to identify phyto-certified EU cultivars appropriate to scale from 6 ac to 20 ac outdoor consisting of 18 hoop houses and covered 2ac outdoor grow.  Her leadership was pivotal in regards to soils testing and she offered various options on water purification solutions, saving her clients valuable resources.  Later in 2019, Kelly was contracted to develop SOPs, trained staff and identifying appropriate outdoor cultivars for a LP in Montreal, CA. She guided the founders, DOC and CCO on efficiency, quality and expectations for the anticipated 20 acre outdoor 2020 grow season and preparing to expand to 40 acres in 2021. While emphasizing automation to meet the limited grow season, Kelly offered various solutions for successful harvest and post harvest needs, as well. She also developed options to utilize the 20,000 sq/ft greenhouse for winter production.

Kelly C.

Cultivation | Farming | Cannabis

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