Model Highlight: Moon Made Farms

“I’ve at all times been someone who was a minority amongst minorities, being marginalized and in addition being interested in marginalized subcultures. Rock ‘n’ roll is the place I discovered my household, and in hashish, I discovered one other household.” Impressed by the “feminine expression of probably the most highly effective plant on Earth,” her phrases, Tina Gordon of Moon Made Farms carved out a hashish model, and a reputation for herself, in Humboldt County, California. Nevertheless it hasn’t at all times been this manner.

“I used to be dwelling in San Francisco for many of my grownup life, and through that point, I used to be dwelling a really underground life-style with artwork, music and taking part in in bands, releasing data, van touring, that type of factor, for about 20 years,” Gordon stated. “I used to be in a bunch of various punk and metallic bands; I did a cell soundstage, that type of factor. And I used to do artwork exhibits, pictures, video. I actually devoted myself to having a full, inventive life, to stay lean, and to stay life to the fullest.”

Nonetheless, after twenty years dwelling that life-style, issues started to transition. After going by way of a band break-up and a profession shift, she was searching for the place to go subsequent. Abruptly, Gordon discovered herself spending increasingly time in Humboldt County as a substitute of the Bay Space, first filming a documentary, then even courting somebody within the space and realizing she needed to spend all of her time there. She additionally fell in love with rising the hashish plant, one thing she by no means would have tried in her earlier life.

“Moon Made Farms acknowledges the female on this plant, the moon being a logo of femininity. The moon has an everyday schedule with refined modifications each, single night time. So, sun-grown isn’t simply in regards to the solar; it’s in regards to the moon and the night time cycle as effectively.”

“I didn’t even have houseplants in San Francisco,” she admitted. “I used to be actually city. After which after I went by way of my first season in Humboldt, and I noticed this plant develop from seed to full expression, I used to be utterly captivated, and it shifted my consciousness to the pure world and the way unbelievable it’s. The sensory expertise of rising this plant modified my life.”

As she started listening to the earth and the vegetation she was rising, she began to comprehend how sacred the connection between hashish and grower actually is. Seeing how hashish thrives when given rain-caught water, contemporary air, full daylight and all the opposite pure parts that may be granted by way of out of doors rising within the Emerald Triangle, Gordon knew she had a brand new obsession. Now, as a substitute of creating music and artwork, she’s all about rising the juiciest, most attractive buds. However she by no means left the social justice aspect behind.

Gordon began studying permaculture regenerative strategies and dealing them into her rising to develop extra sustainable practices round producing hashish. As an advocate for out of doors rising, she is at all times attempting to be taught extra. And as a social justice advocate, she at all times tries to tug in queer of us, ladies and different marginalized folks to work on her farm.

“I’ve at all times been someone who was a minority amongst minorities, being marginalized and in addition being interested in marginalized subcultures,” Gordon stated. “Rock ‘n’ roll is the place I discovered my household, and in hashish, I discovered one other household. And when one thing modifications your life as a lot as hashish, there’s a duty to pay it ahead, a duty to do activism work and social justice work and to assist educate folks in regards to the true worth of this plant.

By means of training, she desires to ensure that the main focus is on sun-grown and pure hashish, a private ardour.

“Misconceptions about outdoor-grown flower are primarily based on the business commonplace,” she stated.

“That began due to prohibition, when all of the out of doors farmers had been pressured inside, so indoor farming turned the business commonplace. Now that we’re rising out of prohibition, it simply feels just like the plant ought to return outdoors. Now, throughout that point, some unbelievable developments have occurred. So much has occurred in the best way of genetics and strategies round this plant, however I’d like to see this plant return outdoors, and for there to be in depth analysis executed on the properties and potential of what this plant has to supply.

Now, Moon Made Farms is thought in the marketplace for producing high quality, sungrown, sustainable hashish that stands out from the remainder, but it surely wouldn’t have been doable with out the onerous work and ethos that Gordon places into her work. She’s additionally thrilled that she will get to revisit her musician days and promote merch for her farm, and she or he loves finding out the expansion cycle of the plant. As for the moon, to her, it’s a celebration of the female inside the hashish plant, the darkish inside the gentle.

“Moon Made Farms acknowledges the female on this plant, the moon being a logo of femininity. The moon has an everyday schedule with refined modifications each, single night time. So, sun-grown isn’t simply in regards to the solar; it’s in regards to the moon and the night time cycle as effectively. It is a photosensitive plant. It’s delicate to gentle. And that high quality of sunshine will have an effect on the plant in each approach, so some of the essential issues in regards to the plant being grown outdoors is that publicity to the night time sky. And so, Moon Made Farms is acknowledging lunar farming strategies, an historical approach of cultivating all vegetation, in addition to the image of the female that the moon represents.”

Learn this story initially revealed in Excessive Instances July 2021 Problem in our archive.