What is a Craft Farmer?
The old joke in
Humboldt is, how much weed is too much to grow?
Whatever my neighbor is growing, cuz that’s gonna get ME busted!
When we look at craft growing, however, the line comes down around the fact that YOU yourself can manage your own crop. When your farm exceeds the range of 2-3 helpers, the ability of even a seasoned grower to manage all of the plant care, in changing conditions, is next to impossible. Small family farms, which cannot be corporatized, due to the fact that they are homesteads, are often incapable of handling more than 2500 feet, a 50 x 50 garden. An eighth of an acre, 5500 feet, or a quarter acre at 11,000, is quite a bit of work.
At FullyMelted, our choice is to stay true to our Humboldt root, and work with small, independent, family farms. The folks who built the industry are incapable of becoming big businesses, but are committed to ecologically sustainable growing of the finest cannabis in the world.
Politically speaking.. The initial law proposed by the legislators stated that no one would be able to grow more than one acre of cannabis, or hold multiple licenses to more than that limit. The fact is, a mere 150 acres would supply the state with all it needs, but here in 2019, there are 1152 permitted acres. The vast majority of these are not in the traditional cannabis area, the Emerald Triangle, but in Salinas, Santa Barbara, and out in the desert. Who decided that was a good idea?
In a state that already grew 7x what it smoked, all for export, we have forced the producing counties to stay in the black market, while allowing big business to come in and … grow another 8x what we need. But don’t expect it to be quality, or for them to drop the price much