After enrolling in classes at UConn to get a degree in sustainable plants and soil systems, Dylan Williams, who already had a background in organic vegetable farming for around four years — and set up his 15-acre farm to do community-supported agriculture — began growing hemp on a research farm with his professor, Gerry Berkowitz. “We really had a good time watching kind of a new industry grow within the first year, and I’ve been involved ever since,” Dylan Williams said Friday.
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