Forget pick-your-own apples. Colorado farm allows locals to harvest hemp this weekend

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Sure, you’ve picked your own apples and peaches. But have you ever picked your own hemp?

In Colorado, local farms allow you to pick your own apples, peaches and pumpkins. And one on the Western Slope even permits you to pick your own hemp plant.

Ryan Eakes, chief operating officer, began hosting these open house-style events in 2021 as a way to educate locals about hemp and demystify the plant, which he said struggles from a perception problem. Hemp looks identical to marijuana, its not-so-distant-cousin, and often people believe it produces the same high. But the plant actually contains very little THC, the psychoactive compound that produces the high.

 

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