Cannabis harvest 2021 in the own words of US farmers
The nation’s first final assessment of our legal harvest – the Leafly Cannabis Harvest Report 2021 – gets even more definitive with a series of colorful interviews and profiles from real, living, breathing pot growers. (You are just like us!)
Leafly interviewed cannabis growers across the United States about the course of 2021. Many crushed it. Read their answers.
How was the growth this year?
“We have had a great year. We are completing an expansion, planning another expansion and everyone here is very proud of our work. “
—Bryce Marlow, 32, second shift manager, Ariez, Anna, IL
“We have had good and problematic harvests this year, but overall there is progress. We encountered changing weather, increasingly deteriorating water, the aging of our staple foods and the transition to new ones. “
—Allen Hackett, 34, founder, MD Farms, Salinas, CA.
“2021 was our best year yet and we expect this to continue through 2022 and beyond.”
—Evan Marder, 51, Director of Cultivation, FLEUR, Las Vegas, NV
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Are you optimistic or pessimistic?
“We are incredibly optimistic! We’ll be expanding our business in Ohio next year, our Michigan grow site is finally online, and we’re adding processing in Ohio and Michigan, and retailing in Michigan and possibly Ohio. “
—Geoff Korff, CEO, Galenas Akron, Ohio
“I am very optimistic about the future, we are currently expanding into a new, state-of-the-art cultivation facility that is twice as large as it is today.”
—Ben Caldwell, 26, director of cultivation for F5 Farms in Tulsa, OK
“I honestly have no idea what the future holds, I try to be as optimistic as possible, but it has been pretty hard to watch the big farms take over and the old farms of the Emerald Triangle go wild.”
—Jason Gellman, Owner and Operator, Ridgeline Farms, Southern Humboldt, CA
Favorite strain for people to try?
“Come on! From our 2021 season, check out Cherry Moon, Orange Valley Sun, Grapes + Cream, Team Cream, Caps Frozen Lemons, to name a few.”
—Tina Gorden, ‘Old Enough To Smoke Weed’, Owner and Founder, Moon Made Farms, Southern Humboldt County, CA
“I would say that the Cherry Trop is one of the most beautiful varieties that I have ever been allowed to grow. This is a new strain and we only recently started selling it in our new Hollywood flagship. “
—Brett Feldman, 42, cultivator and president of Wonderbrett, Los Angeles and Long Beach, C.
“For moderate users, I recommend the Blue Borealis. The taste is accessible and the hum is reminiscent of a canoe trip on a slowly flowing river. “
—Hughes Pope, 35, founder, Sweet Dirt, Eliot, ME
How did you grow in 2021? Tone in the comments below, yo.
Zack Ruskin
Zack Ruskin is a freelance cannabis and culture reporter. His other bylines include the San Francisco Chronicle, The Nib, Vanity Fair, California Leaf Magazine, and Variety. Follow him on Twitter: @zackruskin.
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