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Rockie Eggebrecht is a hard-working farmer, but not the kind who wears overalls, labors in the soil and grows broccoli. He wears street clothes, works indoors and plants exclusively in pea gravel.
He grows recreational marijuana, and he loves his job.
Eggebrecht, 50, has been producing and processing pot lawfully since April. His business, north of Oak Harbor, is called Rock Garden, a play on his name and an allusion both to his hydroponic method and to the act of getting stoned.
“I’m damn proud of what I do,” Eggebrecht said during a recent visit to his growing operation. “I won’t put out a product that doesn’t meet my standards.”
“I want to supply gourmet marijuana to the market.”
Initiative 502, voted into law in November 2012, decriminalized recreational marijuana. As of Oct. 23, 14 Island County residents or companies had sought licenses to grow recreational pot, but only four...
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