Cooperative business models provide the opportunity for small businesses and organizations to join forces, share expenses, and resources, amplify their voice, and build community. These business models are community-owned private enterprises that unite members, buyers, and consumers to address the challenges of volatile and unstable markets, excessive costs, overproduction, and other economic and regulatory hurdles. All of which the cannabis industry has fallen victim to. Cooperative businesses stabilize communities by pulling together resources and local expertise creating income and jobs. Th ..read more

Five questions with “Red House” and the Van Brunt Cannabis Company Warren Bobrow: I’ve been a member of the CSA for a couple of months now. Please let me share with you some of what I learned from the experience so far. There is a real sense of direction in the CSA. I love the approach- similar to a vegetable CSA, it reminds me of Sonoma Hills Farm out West with their terroir driven-cannabis/vegetable CSA Quality is off the charts. It’s pretty evident that the flowers are perfectly cured which in my limited experience means everything. An art form lost by mega grows and their hands-off, high ..read more

There are many natural cycles, individually and as integrated systems, that we can learn to use to our advantage. One of them that is extremely important to all on earth is our moon. More ancient than astrology, more universally recognized by the world’s seasonal and spiritual pathways is the cycle of the moon. The sun shows us the four seasons, the moon is akin to a month, and they work in tandem on our planet. The sun and moon are important to earth’s indigenous cultures and contemporary religions. Everything flows and moves with the moon. Humans and the Earth are made up mostly of water. Th ..read more

Greetings and welcome to today’s Letter’s to Rev. A little Q&A with yours truly, general cannabis growing questions today. Germination issues, inoculants, and all-natural sources for micronutrients (and macronutrients) are on the menu for today. Better buckle up buddercup, heh heh.   In a recent article I Am the Egg Man, I was trying out a new thing with an egg. See the update below. Alright then earthlings, let’s rock and/or roll with today’s “Letters” to Rev… General Cannabis Growing, Question #1: How Can Germinating be so Hard? FROM: Tommy T. “Rev man, I sure hope you can help me ..read more

Yo, good peeps! Random home breeding questions are the flavor of today with Letters to Rev. Just a Q&A with yours truly regarding various breeding questions from home breeders. Grab some kick-ass genetics to breed with over at Kingdom Organic Seeds. Enjoy. In the photo above, you can see a Vietnam Black (landrace) male clone, along with 2 clones of a single female Black Forrest female—yup—that’s EXACTLY what’s happening in the world of KOS right now. Alright then, earthlings, let’s rock and/or roll with today’s “Letters” to Rev… Home Breeding, Question #1: Virgin Breeder? FROM: JCB “Hey Re ..read more

A great big hello and welcome, Skunkers! I am the egg man baybee—LoL—in other words, today’s article takes a look at container growing with an egg. Yup … Just like it sounds. Now, what I am going to do with this article is make a little mini-series with it. There will likely be about two more “episodes” on this subject as I grow out and flower some cannabis plants using eggs as a prime nutrient source. I first heard of using a buried egg (your basic chicken egg from the grocery store) in containers to grow plants from an old acquaintance like a year or maybe two ago. Searching online, I saw so ..read more

Right off the bat, for those of you that don’t know, TLO stands for True Living Organics. This TLO rule bending article today deals with some specific questions that require a bit of rule bending. Bending the rules is fine. It’s adaptive, but… You need to know the rules before you bend the rules. Grab a copy of my 2nd Edition TLO book HERE on Amazon today and get started recycling your soil and enjoying top-shelf results. Alright then, earthlings, let’s rock and/or roll with today’s “Letters” to Rev… TLO Rule Bending, Question #1: Just Manure Soil Recycling? FROM: Harry T. “Hi Rev, I live ..read more

Marijuana, as we all know, has been and is still going through a major transformative process. On one side, it has a great excitement attached to it, and as we see it birthed to the masses, trepidation follows. We have seen lots of friction, whether it be plant count, big vs. small regulation, greed, and mass production that may have been done before for industrial fiber but certainly not on a level of food /medicinal quality. The world is a fast-changing place. Demographics are shifting wildly across the globe, putting challenges in front of Marijuana to make its liberation a truly successful ..read more

Greetings all. I wanted to do a dedicated article regarding The Churn today, and the workings of it as a TLO growing style tweak. I refer to The Churn in a lot of other articles and I always have to refer to this article, Letters to Rev – General Cannabis Growing | SKUNK Magazine, rather than link up a dedicated Churn article, like this one—problem solved! Things have come a pretty long way since I wrote a Churn article in hardcopy Skunk last year. In fact, I am totally convinced that if you run a proper Churn dynamic, you could basically just use good, bagged soil like Ocean Forest soil ..read more

Greetings and welcome to today’s Letter’s to Rev. A little Q&A with yours truly, general cannabis growing questions today. Germination issues, inoculants, and all-natural sources for micronutrients (and macronutrients) are on the menu for today. Better buckle up buddercup, heh heh.   In a recent article I Am the Egg Man, I was trying out a new thing with an egg. See the update below. Alright then earthlings, let’s rock and/or roll with today’s “Letters” to Rev… General Cannabis Growing, Question #1: How Can Germinating be so Hard? FROM: Tommy T. “Rev man, I sure hope you can help me ..read more