by admin | Mar 5, 2024 | Cultivation, Manufacturing, Retail
When you spend a lot of time in cannabis facilities, you see a lot – Great decisions, short-sighted decisions, over-built facilities, under-built facilities – the whole gamut. It’s easy to walk into a facility and immediately start focusing on...
by Brian Staffa | Feb 5, 2024 | Cultivation, Manufacturing, Retail
Security is of course vital in a cannabis operation; for employee comfort and safety, to protect highly valuable products, to remain compliant, and to prevent diversion. But I’ve been in too many facilities where security is overbearing and whether as a customer or an...
by Brian Staffa | Oct 30, 2023 | Cultivation
There is a science behind designing your commercial cannabis cultivation facility. Your facility design should be built upon your operational design which should be foundationally supported by your business model. What questions need to be answered to design the...
by Brian Staffa | Aug 22, 2023 | Cultivation, Manufacturing
Failure to consider and give proper attention to operational design often explains why companies with cutting edge facilities and well written SOPs still end up unable to compete or to combat price compression once the market saturates. What is operational design as...
by Brian Staffa | Jul 22, 2023 | Cultivation
Sealing your grow room is one of the most overlooked and yet, most important details to get right during construction or renovation of your facility. This holds true for all indoor cannabis cultivation facilities and climate controlled greenhouses for cannabis. I’ve...
by Brian Staffa | Jun 14, 2023 | Cultivation
This is a question that I am often asked either at the beginning stages of building a financial model or by someone who has invested in a cannabis company and is trying to determine if their overhead is too high. Understandably, there’s no one formula for answering...
