In honor of cannabis harvest, I dug up these classic tales featuring three voices from Briceland Forest Farm, a small, second-generation family farmstead, cannabis and market farm in Humboldt County run by husband and wife duo Daniel and Taylor Stein. Learn if you’re WWOOFer material in this week’s Sustainability Roll-Up by OCB rolling papers. Great pictures and resources in these show notes!
Read MorePotcast 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. The experience is a lot like dating, we discover. ;) 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.
Read MoreOn Potcast 109, you’ll have a good time learning the basics of dry farming, the ins-and-outs of farm life, and the best parts of working with the land. Organic Medicinals specializes in dry-farmed, full-term, sun-grown cannabis, produced on a fully integrated CCOF California Certified Organic farm in the Eel River Valley of Humboldt County. Meet Jane, Sean, and Ryan here.
Read MoreAre you fascinated by the back to the land movement? On Potcast 108, you’ll meet John Wilhelm of King’s View Farms in the Palo Verde appellation of the Emerald Triangle, where cannabis is the backbone of the community. John shares a fascinating story of making his way to Humboldt in the 1980s. He tells us of the life he made, and the community he helped build that sustains him thirty years later. I hope this conversation gives you a better understanding of the differences between intentionally grown cannabis and the mass-produced stuff.
Read MoreFarmers face an expansive list of chores and challenges during the final weeks of harvest. So I set out to capture stories of harvesting the flower that will eventually become the medicine that you and I buy. Over the next several weeks I’m sharing voices of harvest with you to give a better understanding of what it means to be a cannabis farmer. Understanding brings appreciation, and ultimately I hope your reverence for craft cannabis will grow as big and beautiful as the colas I saw in Humboldt this week.
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