
The NorCal Cannabis co-founder has spent more than two decades turning instinct, regulation and agricultural reality into an operating system. His enduring lesson is simple: the model matters, but the living business gets the last word.

A daily detour for his father’s lottery numbers became a 13-year lesson in product design, patient regulation and knowing when to hand over the ticket.

A teacher became a lawyer, a lawyer became a founder, and four friends moved west to build Fernway. The useful part of Kit Gallant's story is how they kept moving when the market, the rules and the timing refused to cooperate.