Category: Giving Tree Farms
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Addressing Equity and Unconscious Bias in Cannabis Prohibition Zones: A Closer Look at Mendocino County
Addressing Equity and Unconscious Bias in Cannabis Prohibition Zones: A Closer Look at Mendocino County The establishment of cannabis prohibition (CP) zones in Mendocino County has brought attention to potential discrimination and unequal treatment within the industry. In Redwood Valley, residents with 109 contiguous parcels filed a rezoning request to establish a Cannabis Prohibition Combining…
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Cannabis & Cover Crops
Monocropping, or planting only one type of crop on land, has become a common practice in modern agriculture, including the cannabis industry. Unfortunately, this practice can lead to soil depletion, pest outbreaks, and reduced biodiversity. However, by incorporating cover crops in the winter, growers can break the destructive cycle of monocropping and promote soil health…
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Reducing Costs in a Volatile Cannabis Market
Market volatility heavily impacts agriculture, making it difficult for farmers to manage costs while generating a profit. The cannabis industry is not immune to fluctuating prices, with each state’s high regulatory compliance costs and a competing illicit market increasing the stakes for cannabis farmers. Cutting labor costs is one strategy that can help reduce agricultural…
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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. Fallow Years in Farming Let’s…
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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,…
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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…
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Considerations When Preparing for Fresh Frozen Cannabis
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…
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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…
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Time is Money
As owners and operators, we know how valuable our time is. We wear a dozen different hats, take responsibility for the outcomes, and find ourselves fully immersed in all things business seven days out of the week. But what separates the overwhelmed from the productive is respecting the time we are given each day. Without…
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Lean Cultivation
Part of our passion at Giving Tree Farms lies with finding creative ways to boost our sustainability and efficiency. And much like Lean Manufacturing, we work to achieve “Lean Cultivation,” an application that reduces our waste through our cultivation procedures without sacrificing efficiency and productivity. Every area of our operation ties in methods that reduce,…