Jeff Aubin is looking to bring better bud to the legal cannabis market with Smoker Farms.
Located in Beaverdell, the small-batch husband-and-wife-run cannabis farm aims for higher quality weed than what a factory farm can mass produce. For Aubin, who lives in 麻豆精选, it鈥檚 the care and effort that goes into the bud that helps make it better.
鈥淭he legal weed market, it doesn鈥檛 really have a supply of good cannabis, as far as I鈥檓 concerned,鈥� said Aubin. 鈥淭here鈥檚 many more like me, who think there鈥檚 just no love, it鈥檚 mass-produced garbage, it comes to you in little containers, and it鈥檚 usually bone-dry.鈥�
Aubin plans to bring the same small-batch mentality that has led to a boom in craft brewing across the province.
鈥淏eing craft, just like its wine, or just like its beer, we鈥檙e looking to add some more love and care to our product,鈥� said Aubin.
Smoker Farms received a license from Health Canada last month for micro-cultivation of cannabis, and they鈥檝e wasted no time in getting started. They鈥檝e already started growing their cultivations, including a particular MK Ultra cultivar that Aubin has been working on for years. The goal is to have their product on sale by the end of the year.
Aubin is a little surprised that there aren鈥檛 more micro-farms like his own to compete with, but he鈥檚 not complaining. It means that he gets to keep his slice of Kootenays to himself.
鈥淚鈥檝e owned property in Beaverdell for 14 years,鈥� said Aubin. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a nice idyllic setting in the country, and there鈥檚 Kettle River spring water for the plants. Just a different lifestyle out there, it made sense to put something in the middle of nowhere. Everybody you know in the West Kootenays grows weed, we just decided to do it legal.鈥�
The licence for the cultivation was granted to Smoker Farms in partnership with dicentra CannabisConsulting (dCC), according to a press release on the business.
鈥淲e鈥檙e working as a team, they鈥檙e well-rooted in the industry, so they鈥檙e helping me out to do as much damage as we can to the crappy weed market,鈥� said Aubin.
Jensen.edwards@grandforksgazette.ca
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