The Next Step in Marijuana: Vermont Dry & Cure Holds Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

By Dylan Marsh
EAGLE TIMES STAFF
SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — As the state of Vermont begins to see more dispensaries opening in the near future, innovators are helping to make the post-harvest process consistent and reliable. On September 21, 2022, Vermont Dry & Cure held their official ribbon cutting ceremony in Springfield. The company recently purchased, and is renovating, a building in North Springfield’s industrial park to accommodate for significant business growth.

As more recreational cannabis stores begin to open in the state of Vermont, the need for a supply of consistent and quality products continues to grow. It was reported recently that the operations that have been able to open across the state have had difficulty keeping products on shelves due to high demand. Traditional drying and curing processes in the marijuana cultivation field can take up to a month, but with an innovative new look at an older technology, cultivators have been able to trim those times down while increasing yield.

David and Jane Sandelman, owners of VT Dry & Cure, entered into the cannabis industry in 2020, after over a decade of working in the drying and curing business. The Sandelmans have also been personal growers for a number of years, and it is those unique circumstances that brought them to their revelation. The entrepreneurial couple came to the realization that using Vaportrol Technology is the next logical step in quickly, and efficiently, drying, curing, and storing cultivated marijuana.

Vaportrol Technology was originally developed for the artisan cheese industry. Food industry experts soon began using the technology for curing and aging meat as well. As the Sandelmans realized, the technology was also perfect for drying, curing, aging and storing marijuana as well. The vapor pressure is used to create perfect and uniform conditions for the post-harvest process. It is unique in offering both home growing operations, as well as large scale cultivators the opportunity for recreatable and reliable conditions, in addition to offering the ability for the drying process to continue to cure the product rather than overdrying.

Aside from creativing innovations in the post-harvest field, the local business is proud to partner with their employees to continue to make improvements. According to the Sandelmans, the business started as a small, home run operation out of a garage and has continued to grow, and that would not be possible without their team. Keeping their team local is also incredibly important to the Sandelmans as all their employees, many of them growers themselves, are from within a 10-mile radius of the North Springfield facility. According to VT Dry & Cure, every employee is involved and has input on the company and that philosophy is what guides their company forward. Contractors responsible for renovating their new facility are all local as well.