COLLINS, N.Y. — This year, more than 60 farms and businesses were added to the list of New York State's Industrial Hemp Agricultural Research Pilot program.

Before the program started in 2015, it was illegal to grow the crop. And although it's still listed as a controlled substance — making it illegal to move it over state lines — farms like Farm in Peace can grow for industrial and research purposes.

"We had to submit a research proposal on what we wanted to do with it and get licensed through them," said farmer Christopher Jeanniton.

But it's not to be confused with marijuana.

"It doesn't have any of the THC that makes you high so we wanted to get that out of the air and then we wanted to educate people on how great of a crop it is," he said.

Farm in Peace, owned by Christopher and Paula Jeanniton, sits on 56 acres of land, and what started as a Community Supported Agriculture program also has a farm stand and runs educational programs.

"We've always been interested in educating people about farming and trying to get people back to the root of where their food comes from and how it's grown, so we thought because we're doing hemp and it's such a hot topic lately, politically that we'd have workshops to try to misspell any misdemeanors about it," he said.

During the workshops and tours of their nine-acre hemp farm, they also want to make people aware of all the ways it can be used.

"Technically, there's 50,000 uses for hemp. You have grain, which you can press for oil, get protein powder out of. You have the stock which has fiber,” said Christopher Jeanniton.

But ultimately they want to see it grown even more, to bring back an industry that was once thriving.

"It's really just getting the word out there, educating, hopefully we get people that are interested in growing it and get other farms in the area growing it so we can create a demand or a supply for a demand for the raw materials,” said Christopher Jeanniton.

Even though this is their first time growing and harvesting hemp, they're excited to see what they find in their research, and what they can do with it once harvested.

"We did it because we wanted to be on the forefront of something that was coming back and we thought it was an interesting crop to grow, it's only one of the crops we grow just a little side project and kind of see where it takes us, see if there's something there to make our farm some extra money or benefit our farm in some way,” said Christopher Jeanniton.

Anyone who would like to go to a tour and workshop next weekend can buy tickets on their Facebook page.