Cannabis Cultivation Firm’s Proposed Plan To Relocate Its Operations To Pemberton By Building Campus On Soybean Farm, ‘Sourcing Local Talent With Deep AG Experience,’ Riles Local Farmers
A cannabis cultivation firm’s proposed plan to relocate its operations from a 30,000 square-foot facility in urban Irvington, Essex County to a more “environmentally friendly” 17-acre soybean tract on North Pemberton Road in Pemberton Township and construct a “beautiful campus” known as “Pemberton Farm” that would include erecting a 40,000 square-foot red barn, with a pitch to hire “local talent with deep AG experience” has incensed a group of local farmers who have responded publicly by calling the operation “fake farming,” and the prospective end result a “fake farm.”