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

Smart Farming - Soil Sampling for a Better Crop

Smart Farming - Soil Sampling for a Better Crop

To achieve cultivation success, we have to begin from the ground up. Precision soil sampling is our starting line. As an environmental-focused farm, we reuse and rebuild our soil each year, giving back to the earth while we lower our ecological footprint. But to do this, we have to understand what nutrients are lacking in our soil, as well as precisely where they are missing in the field. When we're armed with this data, we can create a foundation that helps us produce exceptional cannabis harvest after harvest.

Grading Your Product - How to Determine the “Sweet Spot” and Why It’s Important

Grading Your Product - How to Determine the “Sweet Spot” and Why It’s Important

A consistent grading strategy for your crop creates a standard your customers can trust. It gives your buyers an idea of what they can expect from you, the first time and every time. A customer that knows what they're buying with certainty will feel confident about doing business with you, in turn, maintaining and nurturing your sales pipeline, as well as creating lasting partnerships. 

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. 

Smart Farming: Identifying Shadow Issues and How to Solve Them

Smart Farming: Identifying Shadow Issues and How to Solve Them

Perhaps the most critical motivation behind the construction of our cultivation facility has been to maintain a sustainable operation. The sun has been harnessed as the primary source of energy in the agriculture industry for years, but with the cannabis industry utilizing more than just outdoor space, indoor cultivation methods, as well as climate-controlled greenhouse operations, are gaining in popularity due to their enhancement in overall output quality and yield. Often, with this comes unsustainable energy consumption, but it doesn't have to lead to this conclusion. Instead, we can use our innovative nature to come up with creative solutions to these common obstacles.

Know What You're Buying: Considerations When Selecting a CBD Product

Know What You're Buying: Considerations When Selecting a CBD Product

There is a head-spinning amount of CBD products on the market, and many claims to go along with them. But what is the true difference between these products? And does one work better than the other? In this literature, we dive into the different aspects of CBD products you see on the shelves, arming you with the knowledge you need to make an educated buying decision.

Growing With Integrity - Your Genetic Selection and Library

Growing With Integrity - Your Genetic Selection and Library

As commercial cannabis cultivators, we know the importance of choosing great genetics. It’s one of the essential factors to consider when planning for our next cultivation cycle, and it could decide our level of success come harvest time. Without great genetics, crops can be weak, the outcome can be wildly unpredictable, and in turn, trust can be lost with regular buyers. But the idea of great genetics in a commercial environment goes beyond what strains simply intrigue us. While we like to try specialty crosses and dabble in the connoisseur market, those don’t always produce high yields or the high potency our legal cannabis market asks for. We run a business after all. We need to supply what the customer demands if we hope to sell our inventory. 

Communicating with the Senses: The Importance of Business Aesthetics

Communicating with the Senses: The Importance of Business Aesthetics

Communication comes in many forms, the majority of it being non-verbal. Indeed, only seven percent of all communication is your choice of words, meaning 93 percent is some version of non-verbal interaction, such as body language, tone of voice, behavior, and color choices. With those figures, it's easy to see why non-verbal methods of communication have the most significant impact on how others view us. In a world that's full of these influential bits of media around every corner, it's no wonder businesses and individuals alike take special care to ensure the places they claim as their own are an accurate representation of who they wish to be. We all judge a book by its cover, even when we know it's not always the best illustration of what's inside. Therefore, we have to design our "cover" in a way that angles others to see us how we view ourselves.

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.

What Growing Style is Right For Your Garden

What Growing Style is Right For Your Garden

Every cannabis farm and farmer is different, so naturally, each growing style will be different as well. There are a lot of factors that go into which method is right for you. While personal preference is one of them, your growing space, financial situation, and climate are others. Diving into what each style has to offer and knowing their differences will give you a better understanding of which direction you should head. 

What is “Smart Farming,” and Why is it Important?

What is “Smart Farming,” and Why is it Important?

Every year the world's population increases by an average of 1.1%, or about 81 million people. With limited land and resources, and the population growth reluctant to cease, the challenge for farmers has become: How do we produce more with less so we can supply a climbing population?

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