When I found out that I had inherited the old family farm out in the country, I was so excited.
My first thought was that I could upscale my pot growing operations, which had been limited to my two car garage. My boyfriend and business partner Max and I packed up our gear, our plants, and all our belongings and moved out to the country. Setting up the plants was the easy part, it was much more difficult to get the farmhouse into livable condition. The electrical grid needed a major overhaul, and there was no ductwork which meant that central AC wasn’t even a possibility. Thankfully the place still had the original water boiler and furnace in the basement, as old as the house itself. They were dirty and dusty but seemed solid after all these years, so I wasn’t worried about heating come the cold winter. When the place was built there was no such thing as air conditioning, but I am a modern person and I won’t live without it! Since the place was not equipped for an HVAC system I decided to think smaller, and focus on my immediate needs. Trying to cool off the entire house was foolish, at least at this point, so I got a portable air conditioner that was strong enough to cool down one room. I could easily move it from room to room with me throughout the house ,or anywhere that had electricity. With this covered, I could focus exclusively on the humidity and heating lamps for the pot plants, and get the crops growing in real soil!