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Your Dream,

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Streamlined.

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Agriculture Technology and Licensure Solutions

Discover research-backed systems and processes to maximize yields and produce premium quality products.

FreshAF is a diversely talented network of consultants and industry professionals with a sustainability mindset and a relentless pursuit of knowledge. Our world-class consulting services are tailored for cultivators, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of fruit, vegetables, cannabis, and hemp. We work to understand your unique strategy and environment and provide custom tailored solutions to ensure your business succeeds.

Licensure Support
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Process Steps

Get started on the right foot, stay up with compliance, execute, and grow.
The Big Leap

Going from idea to reality

Setting the Stage

Hands-free compliance

Setting the Stage

Execute & Optimize

Growing Big

Business Growth & Development

Where are you in your journey?

Let's conquer these challenges together
  • Fruit & Vegetables Cultivation
  • Cannabis & Hemp Cultivation
  • Cannabis Manufacturing
  • Cannabis Retail
  • Other Types

Our team of experts has years of experience in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) and understand the unique challenges and opportunities when cultivating different fruit and vegetable crops. Our packages are tailored to your specific scale, environment, and crop. We’ll work with you to optimize their operations for maximum efficiency and handle challenges that they don’t have inhouse talent for.

FreshAF specializes in Cannabis and Hemp cultivation and have a deep understanding of the nuances of this exciting crop. We’ll help you navigate the complex legal framework surrounding Cannabis and Hemp cultivation, from licensing, permitting, and regulatory compliance through design, development, and sale.

We understand from experience that launching a new Cannabis manufacturing business can be daunting, with all the complex regulations, capital investment, and rapidly changing market dynamics. FreshAF is here to help you find your niche in the market, keep you compliant, and make sure production runs smoothly.

Every cannabis retail startup is unique, with its own set of challenges and opportunities. More than any other piece in the chain, a good plan is critical. Our personalized approach is here to make sure you don’t just win a license, but also find success with it.

Interested in Distribution, Delivery, Storage, or another type of auxiliary business? Give us a call! Let’s find your niche.

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Tell us your dream, we'll find the way

We'll guide you through the regulations along the path to your new agricultural business. Let us take care of the paperwork so you can focus on what you do best.
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Latest Blog Articles

Explore the latest trends and strategies
Constructing Plasmids with a Novel Ubiquitin Promoter For Use in the Transformation of Cannabis Sativa L.
September 13, 2023
Constructing Plasmids with a Novel Ubiquitin Promoter For Use in the Transformation of Cannabis Sativa L.
Constructing Plasmids with a Novel Ubiquitin Promoter For Use in the Transformation of Cannabis Sativa L.  By: Faith Ann Sparks Have you ever wondered how scientists engineer the DNA they put into genetically modified plants? Today there are kits one can use to make the whole in-vitro process simple and quick. But at Fresh Alternative...
Cannabis May Move from Schedule I to Schedule III – How Reclassification May Impact the Industry
September 11, 2023
Cannabis May Move from Schedule I to Schedule III – How Reclassification May Impact the Industry
In a monumental step forward, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has put forth a recommendation for the rescheduling of cannabis, moving it from the restrictive Schedule I category to the more accessible Schedule III category. This recommendation, which comes almost a year after President Biden requested the evaluation, has the potential to...
New York’s Cannabis Legalization Rollout Faces Setbacks and Delays
August 23, 2023
New York’s Cannabis Legalization Rollout Faces Setbacks and Delays
What’s Happening with New York’s Cannabis License Rollout? New York State’s journey to establish a thriving Cannabis industry since its legalization two and a half years ago has been fraught with challenges and delays. Initially envisioning over 150 licensed dispensaries, the state currently has only 23 retail locations. A recent court order further complicated the...
CEA Strawberry Runner Propagation for Deep Water Culture
June 4, 2023
CEA Strawberry Runner Propagation for Deep Water Culture
CEA Strawberry Runner Propagation for Deep Water Culture   By: Jonah Helmer, Dr. Michael B. Timmons, Dr. Neil Mattson, Cornell University   The objective of this bulletin is to describe a method to propagate strawberry plants from runners in deep water culture (DWC). Propagating strawberry plants in deep water culture will reduce grower reliance on...
Propagation Bench: Operational Tour
April 1, 2023
Propagation Bench: Operational Tour
Quick pan over operational DWC Strawberry Propagation Bench in the Kenneth Post Laboratory of Cornell University. The strawberry runners are still attached to living mother plants, which are irrigated daily with Jack’s 21-5-20 General Hydroponics Fertilizer at 150ppm N. The runners are clasped in a GrowGrip and secured in a hole in the foam board...
Strawberry Runner Propogation
October 31, 2022
Strawberry Runner Propogation
Jonah Helmer, Supporting the Cornell Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) Group, shows how to plant strawberry mother plants in drip irrigated pots to produce new runners on the runner propagation bench in the Kenneth Post Laboratory Controlled Environment Agriculture Greenhouse at Cornell University.
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