Potcast 110: Feminized Farming
Potcast 110 is your how-to guide for loving and growing cannabis. Explore what happens when you pay attention to the natural world and work at your relationship with nature. It’s a lot like dating, and it’s the essence of feminized farming. Tina Gordon of Moon Made Farms shares her journey to cannabis and lunar cultivation. Your cosmic experience starts here.
‘After the Show’ Notes
I sat down with Tina Gordon at Moon Made Farms, located in Southern Humboldt County, 33.3 linear miles from the Pacific ocean on 40 acres of leeward mountain slopes of native rock and clay. And a 1-hour drive up the gnarliest dirt road I’ve ever driven. We spent the afternoon walking the farm, doting on the girls, taking fun harvest pics and laughing… and squeezing in gardening lessons while discussing what it’s like being a female farmer. I love Tina’s perspective. I dig her energy. And I’m a fan of her style of growing and the strain selections she chooses to produce. She’s owning feminized farming.
TINA’S HOW-TO GUIDE FOR CONSCIOUS GARDENING
Learn how to learn.
Don’t be afraid to ask.
Living things come first.
Pay attention to the natural world.
Work at your relationship with nature.
Have eyes on every plant every day.
The cannabis plant favors consistency.
According to Tina, founding gardener at Moon Made, the farm primarily cultivates balanced CBD:THC plants.
Balanced cultivars seem to thrive in this region of California, which is one of the reasons we love growing them. The balanced ratios offer people who are seeking relaxed, uplifting, and inspired high functioning States of being, you know, higher highs. There's a lot to be said for moderation when learning about one's own body, mind, spirit, consciousness by cultivating plants that express in balanced cannabinoid ratios, moon made farms has discovered exponentially varied chemical compounds that can offer us the unique opportunity to cultivate intimacy in our relationships with ourselves and the world.
-Tina Gordon, Moon Made Farms
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Vocabulary from this Chat
LUNAR FARMING - utilizing lunar rhythms as a tool for navigating planting periods and harvest dates
If you’re like me you get confused between waxing and waning, so here’s a nerdy tip to help you remember.
Distinguishing Waxing (getting bigger) and Waning (getting smaller)
How can it be determined if the moon is waxing? When the moon is in its waxing phase, it looks similar to the capital letter ‘D’, in that the right side of the moon is smooth and rounded; whereas, the left side looks more uneven and darkening.
What makes the waning moon easily identifiable? When the moon is in its waning phase, it appears more like the capital letter ‘C’; the right side appears darker, more indistinct, while the left side is smooth and rounded.
ENTHEOGEN - A class of psychoactive substances that induce any type of spiritual experience aimed at development or sacred use. The term entheogen is often chosen to contrast the recreational use of the same drugs. In other words, it’s the “highly responsible” word choice over the term psychedelics.
FEMINIZED FARMING SHOW & TELL
When I was a kid, my sisters and I were forced to make scrapbooks every summer of our school year. I might have been the only one who really loved the process. And I think about it every time I put together digital albums like this. I hope you enjoy pictures and videos from my day with Tina Gordon at Moon Made Farms.
This link will take you to Vimeo where you can watch the documentary Tina created in honor of her dear friend and drummer mentor, Georgia Joan Hannan, aka Joani.