Welcome to the Cannabis cultivation and science podcast. I'm your host, Tad Hussey, of KIS Organics.

This is the podcast where we discuss the

cutting edge of organic growing from a science-based perspective and drawn top experts from around

the industry to share their wisdom and knowledge. Our guest today is David Bernard Perron.

David is an agrologist and has a master of science and plant sciences from McGill University.

He began working in greenhouse production in 2001 and worked for McGill in the Greenhouses and horticultural research

center for five years. He is the lead agrologist and one of the head growers at Whistler

Medical Marijuana Corporation. Over the last year and a half, he designed the certified organic

growing program at Whistler Medical Marijuana Corporation, making them the only fully certified organic licensed producer in Canada.

Hey, David, thanks for coming on the show today.

I appreciate you taking the time to chat with me.

Hey, Ted.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, so I met David, what, two years ago now at Canacan, came to one of my talks, and we started chatting, and I realized David was this wealth of information.

Could you maybe tell me a little bit about your background and how you came into your current job and what you do now?

Yeah, yeah, I remember when we first met, you were that breadth of fresh air and that melstrom of craziness that

was my first two weeks in the industry so i didn't know that was your first two weeks wow oh yeah

it was pretty interesting so i'm coming from an agricultural background greenhouse production

background i've been working in greenhouse production since 2001 when I was 14 years old, I think,

at the end of my road where I used to grow up in the countryside, there was a greenhouse that

were doing production of annual flowers in the winter and cuttings of Poinsettias during the summer.

So I was lucky enough that one of the managers there was also teaching horticulture

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