Forever Green is busy growing hemp in Vanderhoof but stockpiling the product while trying to attract interest to get a processing plant built in B.C.
While hemp is a marijuana plant, it doesn’t come with the active medicinal or recreational ingredients that make pot so problematic.
Cheryl Burns was manning a booth for Forever Green, promoting greenBED pet bedding, which the company has to import from Europe for lack of a processor.
“It’s a matter of getting the interest,” said Burns, whose booth also included hemp-based products like particle board, MDF and even hemp-crete, a concrete-like product she said was “great insulation.