It’s Spring, Let’s Get Outside!
Spring equinox marks the beginning of spring, when we find ourselves knee-deep in cover crop emerging from defrosting land coming to life after a long, cold winter. It is incredible to watch the new growth come up from the ground after the winter has been deeply hydrated by epic downpours. The sounds, scents, colors, and sunshine all scream SPRING!! Deep scroll for the farm fresh perspective.
What's Happenin! At Moon Made
We brought in gorgeous clones from our nursery friends for our first run. Coming later this summer: Jack Herer from Source, Pleasurez from Mendo Genetics, and award winning LMNT from Hendrx.
Spring gives us an annual opportunity for life renewal, a fresh perspective from Winter's reflection, and a sense of starting over.
As the cannabis market in California matures, we all participate in this evolving ecosystem. Word on the street is that Sungrown’s catching on and all of you are to thank for this.
As the climate shifts around the globe as does our desire to participate in regenerative farming and continue sungrown advocacy, so there’s no time like the present to lean into what nature provides to bring us closer to balance. Our farm is doing our best to embrace techniques to contribute to climate regeneration.
I’m doing a spring Socal Tour this month to talk Sungrown at dispensaries. On every stop along the way I love engaging with shop staff and consumers about why I believe Sungrown offers unique and outstanding benefits from seed to smoke. This tour will culminate at the Cannabis and Environmental Stewardship Symposium on April 5 at Cal Poly. I’ll be joining fellow farmers on a panel called Stewardship and Legacy: Growing the Licensed Soil.
Back on the farm, we’re seeing native grasses and wildflowers return, and buds covering trees in mass. Blossoms form in shades of pink and white, revealing their stored winter energy. Tree frogs serenade us with nightly frogestra arrangements sung from the ponds. We’re turning compost, planting vegetable and flower seeds, and returning to the sunshine.
Our cover crops are RAGING!! The gardens are covered with a mix of bell beans, fetches, white oats, and delicious fava. Why do we do this? We’re fixing nitrogen, which means bringing nitrogen into the soil. Check out the nitrogen nodules on cover crop roots below. It’s magic. Nitrogen gas in the air is transformed into nitrogen that is available to the plants. When we chop and drop the cover crop, the vegetation stays on the soil surface to lightly dry then it gets mixed into the soil, contributing more Nitrogen and Carbon into the soil…while the roots and root nodules stay in the soil contributing as a source of available Nitrogen and food for plants, worms and microbes that build a living soil. Science is cool. Nature is the coolest…
P.S. UPDATE ON MEASURE A – It was defeated. C'mon! 🤘🏽
