Courtney Bailey
Addressing Equity and Unconscious Bias in ...

Critics often highlight odor nuisances associated with cannabis cultivation, but it is important to acknowledge that vineyards, too, emit strong smells due to the use of agricultural inputs like sulfur. Addressing odor concerns without considering the broader context of other agricultural activities may lead to unfair treatment. Similarly, noise and lighting impacts are often cited as potential drawbacks of cannabis cultivation, but vineyard operations involving heavy equipment and non-downcast lighting practices can also disrupt neighboring communities.

Addressing Equity and Unconscious Bias in Cannabis Prohibition Zones: A Closer Look at Mendocino County
Courtney Bailey
Why Farmers Take a Fallow Year in Farming

Let’s step off the cannabis farm for a minute and instead look to agriculture as a whole. The cannabis industry has picked up a lot of lessons from the farming world, and while taking a fallow year doesn’t yet appear to be a widely-adopted trend, this year may be different.

Why Farmers Take a Fallow Year in Farming
Courtney Bailey
Preparing Cannabis Farm for Winter

While winter brings some time for rest and recovery, for those involved in year-round cultivation, the new season brings added complexities for growing cannabis. The plant is thought to have evolved about 28 million years ago on the eastern Tibetan Plateau, which is home to extremely cold winters. While cannabis can grow in the winter, taking some extra steps to support your greenhouse cannabis cultivation can certainly help.

Preparing Cannabis Farm for Winter
Courtney Bailey
Harvesting Craft Cannabis

In a market that’s increasingly being taken over by large-scale production, lower quality, and cheaper prices, it’s important to look at the better alternative: craft cannabis. What makes Giving Tree Farms and other craft cannabis producers stand out? From seed-to-package, there’s a certain mindfulness involved. So, let’s take a look at what harvesting craft cannabis entails.

Harvesting Craft Cannabis
Courtney Bailey
Considerations When Preparing for Fresh Frozen ...

Fresh-frozen cannabis has taken the cannabis world by storm in recent years. As the name suggests, fresh-frozen cannabis entails freezing the harvest directly after it’s been picked. It’s been growing in popularity—especially as it’s one of the best methods we have to preserve terpenes and cannabinoids.

Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at how we go about producing fresh-frozen cannabis.

Considerations When Preparing for Fresh Frozen Cannabis

Cannabis

Staying Environmentally Conscious and Aware of Your Consumer’s Health

Staying Environmentally Conscious and Aware of Your Consumer’s Health

Working with our plants is meditative for most of us cannabis farmers. Our hands caked in dirt, lined along the underneath of our fingernails, our breath lengthened while we physically work in the fields, and our noses filled with the sweet aroma of live buds ripening with the sun. All are centering thoughts for us with a passion for cultivating cannabis, but it doesn't just stop there. While using organic nutrients and pest management techniques has been the standard for Giving Tree Farms since the beginning, our understanding of why this is important to our planet and consumer's health continues to grow each year. 

Controlling Your Entire Process from Clone/Seed to Harvest - Can a Cooperative Help?

Controlling Your Entire Process from Clone/Seed to Harvest - Can a Cooperative Help?

As farmers, we take pride in our cultivation process. We have learned through many harvests what works and what doesn't, and we are always improving our methods. How we take matters into our own hands decides the height of our success, so it's smart that we look from every angle to find the best possible solution to our puzzle, cycle after cycle. 

What is "Fresh Frozen" Cannabis and Why Is It So Popular?

What is "Fresh Frozen" Cannabis and Why Is It So Popular?

The fresh-frozen buzz is growing in popularity among cannabis consumers as the demand for high-potency extracts soars. What once was an outlandish concept is now considered standard for a portion of a cultivator's crop, some farmers choosing to freeze the crop entirety. As we move forward with the evolution of the industry, our techniques and practices evolve as well, aiming to match our end goal with our customer's desires. While we will always cultivate under our organic and sustainable standard, we have added new traditions to our harvest procedure, offering both fresh-frozen products and air-cured flowers to our clients.

Why Buying From a Cooperative May Be the Best Move For Your Business

Why Buying From a Cooperative May Be the Best Move For Your Business

Sustainable cannabis is growing in popularity among consumers as the public becomes educated on the environmental effects of old and wasteful farming methods. The same can be said about organic cultivation methods, though there isn't a recognized state-wide organic certification for cannabis at this time. Since the consumer base is shifting their decisions to buying products with responsible backgrounds, distributors must also shift their buying motivation to supply the retailers with what they truly need. They now need to look for cultivators who practice sustainable farming methods that align with their evolving consumer base. Cannabis cooperatives may be the answer.

Giving Tree Farms Featured in California Farmer’s Showcase Best of Harvest Box

PRESS RELEASE

MENDOCINO, Calif., Nov. 18, 2017 – Giving Tree Farms, a member of the National Cannabis Industry Association and California Growers Association, has been chosen for the second year in a row as one of 28 cultivators chosen to be featured in Natural Cannabis Company’s new California Farmer’s Showcase Best of Harvest Box. 

The limited-edition Best of Harvest Box includes 28 grams of cannabis from 28 different small farms located throughout Northern California. Included in this collection is Giving Tree Farms’ sungrown cross between Cotton Candy and Shiskaberry, cultivated in a living soil organisms (LSO) environment which produces the maximum genetic potential within the plant.

As with all of Giving Tree Farms’ products, all strains are cared for using only OMRI-listed nutrients and conscientious water conservation methods. 

"We are honored Natural Cannabis included our sungrown strain in the Best of Harvest Box. Our primary focus is on cultivating a well-rounded flower. Our breeding and cultivation efforts strive to release the full genetic potential of the cannabis plant," said Chris Butler, president of Giving Tree Farms, based in the Anderson Valley appellation of Mendocino County, Cali. "At Giving Tree, we believe that the quality of cannabis is beyond the percentage of THC found in the flower."

Butler adds that there's increasing consensus within the field of cannabis research that the benefits of cannabis derived from various cannabinoids working in tandem, known as the "entourage effect," offer a more robust experience. The percentage of THC with the cannabis flower is still widely considered the gold standard of the determining the value. Giving Tree Farms’ chooses to look further than this one indicator of quality. 

The limited-edition California Farmer’s Showcase Best of Harvest Box is available beginning on Nov. 12. 

The California Farmer’s Showcase Best of Harvest Box retails for $190 and will be available at all three Natural Cannabis Company Northern California locations: Oakland Organics, Oakland; OrganiCann, Santa Rosa; and MendoCann, Hopland. 

"The wine industry has their events around harvest and so do we," said Dona Frank, founder and owner of Natural Cannabis Company. "Small farms tend to get overlooked at all these cup events, especially now that so many are tied to corporate interests. We work exclusively with small farms, so we want to recognize their contributions. These farms are growing some of the best cannabis in the world."

A full list of farmers and their products featured in the California Farmer’s Showcase Best of Harvest Box is available online. 

About Chris Butler
Chris Butler is president of Giving Tree Farms, based out of Mendocino County, California, and Newcleus Nurseries, based out of Portland. He has been a grower in the Emerald Triangle for more than 10 years, initially specializing in high-CBD strains such as ACDC, Harlequin and Canna-Tsu. In 2011, Butler became a contracted cultivator for Harborside Health Center in Oakland, California. 

Butler graduated from Colorado University at Boulder in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in German History. After graduation, he moved to Southern California where he worked in the motion picture industry as a director of photography for movies and commercials, earning awards from the Seattle Film Festival and the Sonoma Film Festival. Butler transitioned to the cannabis industry after discovering its medicinal benefits could help those struggling with addiction. 

About Giving Tree Farms
Giving Tree Farms, based out of Mendocino County, California, has operated farms in Northern California for nearly a decade and is locally permitted in Mendocino County under the 9.31 Ordinance. The company specializes in producing outdoor and greenhouse cultivated strains in a living soil organisms (LSO) environment. All of Giving Tree Farms’ products are lab-tested, locally grown, and produced in small batches. Giving Tree Farms is Clean Green Certified under the 9.31 program and uses CW Analytics for potency, pesticide and microbial testing. Giving Tree Farms has been a member of the National Cannabis Industry Association since 2014, and is also a member of the California Growers Association and the California Cannabis Industry Association. 

For more information, please contact: Giving Tree Farms' via
press@givingtreefarms.org.

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