Bayou City Hemp takes tech-focused approach to hemp, CBD extraction

In the Energy Corridor, a group of industry veterans moved from working in oil, gas and minerals to working with a different type of commodity: legal hemp.

Ben Meggs and Jeromy Sherman are the co-founders behind Bayou City Hemp Co., which creates hemp-derived products at its 14,000-square-foot production and extraction facility in west Houston. Established in 2019, Bayou City Hemp makes a variety of different products from legal hemp, including CBD and other derivatives.

Meggs has a background…