Many of these growers have attempted to establish outdoor hemp farms but lost their crops in an epic battle against nature.
Power BioFarms is a vertically integrated indoor hemp farm that houses from 300 to 600 plants at a time, with plenty of space to expand. Its products are currently in 13 stores in North Texas, and consumers can also purchase hemp through the company's website and have it mailed anywhere in the country legally.
Power is from Dallas and went to the Episcopal School of Dallas before earning his B.A. in Business from the University of Notre Dame. While at Notre Dame, he was a goalie on the D1 men's lacrosse team for his entire college career. Then he moved back to Dallas. “I took over the media room, took all the furniture out, put a couple tents in there, and I think I had about 40 plants in there,” Power says. “Then I told myself if we are going to do this, this is not the way to do it."
Williams has a green thumb and could be considered a master grower at this stage of his career. Power says he was a major help in turning the facility into an almost fully automatic operation that harvests every two weeks. They still have to manually perform minor tasks like repotting the plants as they grow or occasionally might move a bucket of water.
More recently, they had to stick about 200 plants into one of the smallest rooms in the facility, which is now the kitchen, because the building's electrical wiring had to be switched out. The original electrical boxes were old and small and not providing enough power, so they had to confine the operation to a singleThis task took several months because Oncor became backed up after the winter storm that swept through North Texas at the beginning of the year.