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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The cannabis industry is constantly evolving. Expected to reach $30 billion in annual market value by 2025, the budding industry brings with it some challenges related to cannabis’ legality, marketing, distribution, and keeping up with an ever-changing landscape. So how can we battle unpredictability? It starts with choosing long-term partners in a fluctuating market.
As cannabis cultivators, it's important that we continue scaling our business to keep up with the demand of a quickly expanding industry. To remain within our strict cultivation standards, we have to maintain quality while we scale, and this is possible through increasing avenues of efficiency and implementing smart-farming techniques.
We know every business is different, each in its unique stage of growth and development. Because of this, we offer payment terms to our approved clients to make purchasing easier and more achievable. In order to provide this service to our buyers, we implement a business credit application that we ask applicable businesses to fill out before payment terms are extended. This process may come with a few questions that we hope to address in this reference article.
This year has taught us many things so far, both personally and professionally. When the normal day-to-day was flipped upside down and COVID-19 said its hello, our weaknesses were highlighted and our strengths had to be fully utilized. But what these times have also shown us is the power we have when we work together. We now have proven data to display our potential in numbers, pointing to how we can flatten a curve simply by all agreeing to stay inside. But this strength in numbers idea doesn't have to be limited to our 2020 pandemic. Instead, we can rise out of this challenge with wisdom and new knowledge. We can use this opportunity to shape our futures, molding it into the reality we've always wanted to see.
Conflicts of perspective can occur even in the most like-minded communities. When people are passionate about a cause, it’s sometimes easier to put blinders on than to accept facts and data that contradict our worldview. A version of this head-in-the-sand scenario is currently playing out in the California cannabis industry, specifically around the subject of mixed-light grow operations.
There are often multiple paths you can take to reach the same outcome. Forming a California cannabis cooperative is no exception. However, I hope I can provide you with information that will make your journey a little easier. Through the process of forming a co-op, I have learned a few lessons along the way. I can safely say that forming this union is one of the best things you can do for your farm, but it can also prove to be one of the most challenging.
Keeping afloat in the rushing river of legal cannabis can be difficult on your own. That’s why many have begun turning towards cannabis cooperatives to pull their heads above water. There are many benefits of a cooperative. Some even argue it’s the only way for a small farmer to continue competing in this evolving industry. With the large corporate structure we see forming new farms throughout California, the added pressure felt by the small farmer to produce on the same level is increasing. These pressures can be a lot for us farmers to take on by ourselves, but what keeps us going is the argument that our quality is easily the better of the two. We put love into all of the decisions we make, we take time to think about how our choices affect those around us, and our years of experience in the game make us experts compared to most. Typically, you will see a loss in quality as a company scales, but co-ops offer the ability to increase cultivation area while keeping the batches small enough to focus on quality.
