The event was designed to strengthen our relationships with overseas customers and showcase why our sun-grown, organically cultivated product stands apart in the market.
As our co-founder and chief development officer Tom Forrest told the RNZ: “In an industry where factory farming is a bit of the norm, we want to show why our plants and our crops and our medicines are grown differently and we’ve invited other farmers from around New Zealand and the world so we can share knowledge and we can collaborate and build really lovely partnerships.”
Columbia University organic chemistry professor Colin Nuckolls flew in from the US to attend the Open Day, and was incredibly impressed by Puro.
“The mountains, the cool air, the proximity to the ocean, if I was to pick anywhere to grow cannabis, I’d pick here.”
Much of Nuckolls work explores the differences between indoor and sun-grown cannabis cultivars.
“Outdoor cannabis has more compounds, more terpenes, a fuller spectrum of everything that makes cannabis valuable. What you find in a lot of indoor product can be lots of oxidised and degraded material.”
Alessandro Sorbello, Director of Medicinal Organic Cannabis Australia, told The Press that Puro’s range was “among the best products he had seen“, while Sam Holt, a director at Australian company Cannatrek, said he was keen to help us access markets in Europe following their acquisition of facilities in Denmark.​​​​​​
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