CT NOFA Board Member, Freedom Gerardo, Featured on New Hampshire Public Radio
July 24, 2024
CT NOFA board member, Hector “Freedom” Gerardo, was recently featured on New Hampshire Public Radio’s podcast, Outside/In. Gerardo is, among other things, a Connecticut-based industrial hemp farmer, whose experience provides insight into the past, present, and future of industrial hemp as a U.S. agricultural product on their episode “Reefer Madness, the CBD Bubble, and the Future of Hemp.”
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