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Pharm Aide Pharms Ep. II: The Fall of Sky Walker; Prisoners Deprived Basic Sanitary Needs During COVID-19 Pandemic Patrick Ian Moore & B. Le Grand
Not long ago, in a place not far away...
Edibles Magazine™ Issue 63
Back in October of 2018, Edibles Magazine published, “A Model for Organic, Sustainable, Clean, Large Scale Farming: Pharm Aide Pharms” in our Health Issue featuring Fran Drescher on the cover. I had visited Skylar Walker on his farm in Walsenburg, Colorado and spent a few days there learning all about the amazing ways he was growing top shelf buds organically in the sun. Now, a year and a half later, and in the midst of a global pandemic, we’re revisiting Pharm Aide Pharms, and their story has taken a very dramatic and frightening turn.
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entire time. Masks and gloves are standard Read the original Pharm Aide Pharms issue in this business. article from Issue 49 here: www.ediblesmagazine.com/world/a-model-for- Pharm Aide Pharms is a family farm who organic-sustainable-clean-large-scale-farming- spent 20 years growing on the West coast. pharm-aide-pharms-in-ca-co-now-ok/ They're a family cannabis business that was We recently talked to Wade Walker, the licensed in 3 states. Skylar, Wade’s son, was Walker family patriarch, at the Pharm Aide raised in Mendocino County where Pharm Pharms Farm in Hugo, Oklahoma. We were Aide had an operation in addition to the farm joined by his wife Dana, and this time their they had in Humboldt County, and another son Skylar wasn’t there. Don’t worry, we they built in Colorado and eventually the one practiced good social distancing and wore in Oklahoma, where we are here in Hugo. all the proper, sanitary safety equipment the When Colorado turned recreational in 2017, EdiblesList.com I EdiblesMagazine.com
