I met a cannabis cultivator at a cannabis and health conference in Oahu, Hawaii this past January. He invited me to visit his farm located on the North shore of Oahu. He serves about 100 patients,
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Lessons From A Jamaican Winter Grow
February 28, 2019The dream and demand, “Legalize It!” has finally come to pass in Jamaica. People aren’t going to jail for cannabis. It is used freely in more places. However, licensing legal cannabis companies
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A Visit to Dark Heart
January 31, 2019All images © Ed Rosenthal. I recently visited one of the most respected cloneries in Northern California—Dark Heart Nursery. Through stores and dispensaries, it supplies both hobbyists and
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OAKLAND OUTDOOR GARDEN: The Final Installment
January 3, 2019My last report on the garden was in late November. At the time, almost half of the plot had been harvested. Harvesting continued through the end of the month. There were several reasons for the sense
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Oakland Outdoor Garden Part IV
December 6, 2018The Oakland garden is now ripe and is being harvested. As expected, the buds were ripe on Nov. 1. However, there was a delay in preparing for it, and the crew is playing catch-up. Every cultivator
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Urban Farm III
November 1, 2018It is now mid-October, and we’re continuing the cultivation of our urban farm. In order to give the plants more vegetative time so they can grow bigger, they were given nightly doses of light
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Urban Farm Experiment Continued
October 4, 2018It’s now Sept. 12, and we’re revisiting the Californian urban farm from last month’s column. The plants were placed outdoors during the last 10 days of July. It took a long time, because there
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Urban Herbs A visit to one of the largest urban cultivation sites in the U.S.
September 6, 2018It wasn’t long ago that the idea of growing an acre of cannabis in California was just a fantasy. But in 2016, citizens in California voted affirmatively on a partial legalization initiative. Now
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