Destination Hemp Farm / WIP

Virginia

At the end of 2021, we came into contact with a hemp farmer, whose property is located in one of Virginia’s oldest and most beautiful historic farm communities, resting at the foot of the blue ridge mountains and a stone’s throw away from the storied Harper’s Fairy which sits at the intersection of the Shenandoah & Potomac rivers.  Our client’s property is not only in the vicinity of some of the fiercest civil war battles, but also a part of the earliest colonial farm settlements that were all a piece of the original land grant given to nobleman Lord Fairfax by King Charles the II of England in 1649.  

Before growing hemp, our client property was organized and run as a livestock farm, raising Asian water buffalo, rabbit, poultry, and pigs.  After Virginia adopted the 2018 Farm Bill which legalized hemp they obtained the required licensing and in 2019 planted their first crop for the purpose of producing and selling CBD & CBG products.  Since 2020 they have planted more than 10K hemp plants within a 10 acres footprint, to produce a larger array and diversity of products that now go beyond CBD & CBG extracts.

After meeting our client at a networking event, we soon had our first handshake discussion on-site to become better acquainted and learn more about their goals for the farm property, as well as exchange shared excitement about Virginia’s fledgling hemp industry.  After signing together in early 2022, the first kick-off discussion with our client and preliminary design work has touched upon the following handful of program ideas and goals for a first-of-a-kind destination hemp farm: 

• Outdoor passive recreation is to include outdoor event space/amphitheater & arrival plaza space for music, performance, hemp industry symposium/convention/presentations, corporate and other destination/private events, pop-up farmers markets, and yard games all organized and provided in and around new dispensary, geodesic dome welcome center/lounge, greenhouse, tree house and VIP club buildings which are placed and organized within interconnected new destination farm entrance access parking and pedestrian entrance access walkways.  Private group/communal areas can also be found carved out of crop areas, or within crop access footprints with movable seating, as well as potentials for dry/trailer camping for select patrons.

• Preliminary conversation has involved some discussion relative to crop alignments, plow & propagation techniques, as well as experimental crops footprints.  In addition to crop plantings, other more formalized planting design has been developed complementary to and in support of utilitarian access, proposed new & existing building footprints, distinctive public & private/employee program areas, and the proposed new pedestrian/vehicular entrance circulation spine on which all components of the destination experience and hemp facility/production are stitched together, organized on and radiate from.

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