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

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How We Saved Ourselves From a Crop Disaster

How We Saved Ourselves From a Crop Disaster

Not everything in life goes as planned, but that's what keeps us moving forward on the road of innovation. Without hiccups along the way, we wouldn't fully understand where we can improve our implementations and operations, and we wouldn't learn the valuable bits of information that help us succeed in the future. We recently had one of these hiccups in our garden, but because of other hurdles we've encountered and concurred over the years, we noticed the issue before it became a large-scale problem.

The Boom of Cannabis Employment: Will the Cannabis Farmer Benefit?

The Boom of Cannabis Employment: Will the Cannabis Farmer Benefit?

The mainstream media hasn't entirely hopped on board when it comes to reporting the cannabis industry. Some bits, like the number of tax dollars collected, the shutting down of illegal operations, and the exploding of cannabis stocks, are reported to the masses, but other areas of information, like the boom of cannabis employment, hasn't received the same level of coverage. While this may seem like a small slice of cannabis industry information that the masses could do without, there are ripples that reverberate up the supply chain as a result, and cannabis farmers feel the quake.

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