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A B O U T T H E C OV E R The Harvest Issue is always among our most highly anticipated editions, and this month’s coveted cover feature goes to a very deserving farm indeed: Painted Rooster Cannabis in Yakima.

Their sungrown flower fuels their line of products including the ever-popular Sungaze beverages. The Sungazes come in user-friendly small doses and are incredibly refreshing for those with cotton mouth. We also took a look at The Craft Co-Op and Legacy Organics to round out this month’s grow features.

Be sure to check out our other markets’ Harvest Issues for a look at Cannabis grown around the country!

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Editor’s Note Thanks for picking up The Harvest Issue of Northwest Leaf!

I remember the first time I saw a photo of a Cannabis plant, and it forever changed my perspective on the “drug” that was highly illegal at the time. It was the summer before college started, I was at a dealer's house trying to score some “hydro,” and there was a 15 stack of High Times magazines on his coffee table. I flipped one open and was transfixed by the exotic, almost alien-like beauty of the brightly-colored budding colas. It was the first time I had truly seen the actual plant, as all of my weed buying to that point “ALL THESE YEARS had involved Jack-in-the-Box parking lots and Ziplock bags of mids.

It was in that moment, as I gazed with the wonder usually reserved for the first peeks at a Playboy, that I had an epiphany: The Cannabis plant was beautiful and not anything to be afraid of.

LATER, I STILL EXPERIENCE A CHILDLIKE SENSE OF WONDER WALKING THROUGH A CANNABIS GARDEN …

ESPECIALLY OUTDOORS. ”

A few summers later, I was working on the first issues of Northwest Leaf and my friends and I came into a bunch of rooted clones in red Solo cups. We decided to play a prank on my dad, a high school teacher at the time, and plant a few of the clones in the big outdoor garden full of vegetables and ornamental plants. We took bets and waited for the moment of discovery, but it took a few weeks – until the tops of the distinct plants were reaching beyond their non-psychoactive companions.

When he realized the garden transgression and angrily tore them up, it was a funny and sad moment. This culling shaped my view of Cannabis and drug policy for years to come. The fact that my dad had watered the plants for a few weeks before realizing they were the “wrong” plants, reaffirmed my view that no plant should be illegal and that fears of Cannabis as a harmful drug were dangerously exaggerated. After all, why should we be scared of a plant that makes people feel good?

All these years later, I still experience a childlike sense of wonder walking through a Cannabis garden … especially outdoors. Looking up at plants that are taller than my six-foot eyespan feels magical, as the fan leaves and heavy colas dance in the wind and bloom under the sun while waves of terpenes wash over the mind. We must not forget how wonderful it is that we can grow our own medicine, and we should be very appreciative of the farmers who dedicate themselves to this crop.

Walking into a dispensary full of bright packaging and competing brands, it’s easy to forget that it all begins when a grower places a seed or clone into dirt, caring and nourishing a baby plant until it reaches harvest. So to all the farmers – those hard workers with dirty fingernails putting in long hours – the Leaf says “thank you.” We celebrate this harvest and the freedom to do so, for we remember a time when simply growing a plant was enough to earn a prison sentence.

-Wes Abney

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YOU’RE SO INTO SKATEBOARDING THAT YOU ALSO DESIGN MAPS FOR VIDEO GAMES. HOW DOES THAT WORK? Yeah, I’ve made a

couple of maps with my friend for a video game, and it has had over 10 thousand downloads. Lots of people play them, but I do it for me. I’m basically creating the old downtown skate park, modeling it in a program, and then dragging it into the video game’s folder as a playable map. So when I’m playing the game, I just go to maps and it’ll say Spokane … I’ll click on it and I’m thrown into what I’ve created as Downtown Spokane and get to skate around cool spots. It’s called SkaterXL. THAT’S COOL AF. Yeah, the programs I use to make the maps are all free. The game was free on PC, and then the mods and the map I’m making are free to download. You just download and install it and play it.

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MODS.IO. You go to the game SkaterXL and type in Nate Akers. What will pop up is Wheels Skate Park and Joe Albi Skate Park, which are already done. Right now, I’m making the Old Downtown Skate Park UTF and the surrounding area like the Riverfront Park, U-Haul and old Costco – and it goes pretty far.

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IF YOU COULD BURN WITH ANYBODY IN THE WORLD, WHO WOULD IT BE? Cheech and Chong.

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Talk about coming out of the gate strong. It was just one year ago that the doors opened with the intention of creating a state-of-the-art building housing only the most highly curated products. And it worked! The selection is pride-driven and very focused on providing quality at the best prices – come see for yourself. And whenever they open something new on the tribal land, there’s always an appropriate ceremony to ground it with gratitude.

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In the beginning there was considerable resistance and apprehension from some of the tribal members about getting into the Cannabis business, naturally.

However, in the year since opening, many attitudes have changed about the medicinal benefits of the plant by presenting it through a very professionally driven store. By doing things the right way and embodying a reverence for both the plant and the community, you’ll now find tribal members visiting on a regular basis – including some of the elders.

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These values are paramount to this burgeoning empire of all things fun and delicious. The shop is medically endorsed and focused on wellness, while not losing sight of the entertainment element and all-around good times that come with ganja. And with the design experience of Cannabis troubadour Sean Corboy, who also does the purchasing, a world-class “terp fridge” was even constructed with the buildout. You could say the concept was to mirror a jewelry display case, showing off the jewels. Couple these touches with the beautiful surroundings on the Reservation and trust lands, and you’ll see that this place is all about quality. You may even catch an amazing sunset from the hill to take in the essence of the western Washington sky.

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Twenty22Many and the state of veteran access nearly a decade later.

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It’s an honor to be given this space in the November Harvest Issue of Northwest Leaf Magazine. A Veterans Day issue – and an incredible opportunity to thank all who have served and sacrificed for our country.

I HAVE FOLLOWED Northwest Leaf since its beginning back in 2010, when Wes would deliver the magazine to medical Cannabis safe access points across the state of Washington – providing our newborn industry with a publication that was by definition, a grassroots Cannabis movement.

And what’s not to love? Wes is truly a pioneer to this movement and Twenty22Many thanks him and his team for their unwavering support of veterans and our organization.

We have over a half million veterans living in Washington state. It has been our mission from the beginning to make sure every single one of them has safe and reliable access to medical Cannabis.

For that specific reason, if any veteran makes it to our HQ in Downtown Olympia, we can provide free Cannabis, clones, grow equipment, nutrients and genetics to them – a program we’ve proudly been running since 2012.

“There is no location in the state that we can’t get Cannabis to if a veteran can’t afford his/her own medicine.”

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Twenty22Many is one of the very first organiveterans at no cost. The VA gives out FREE pills zations fighting on a national level for veterans’ and Twenty22Many gives out FREE Cannabis. access to medical Cannabis, and is the lonOne kills nearly 100,000 people a year, while the gest-running group of its kind in Washington. We other has never taken a human life in all of history. made headlines back in 2012 when we, alongside On June 1, 2023, Twenty22Many and Rx the support of Senator Hobbs, got PTSD added teamed up again and re-opened its doors to to Washington’s list of qualifying conditions for provide reliable safe access to veterans – a service medical Cannabis use – immediately securing the the state of Washington had every opportunity to protection of veteran benefits statewide. It was a get right. Now, nearly a decade later, veterans and bill that passed without a single “no” vote – somemedical Cannabis patients still have no access to thing that is simply unheard of in today’s American clones and still can’t grow at home without a docsocial justice and political landscape. tor’s authorization, forcing financially burdened Twenty22many was born out of Rainier Xpress veterans to pay hundreds of dollars a year for Medical Cannabis Safe Access medical Cannabis authorizations.

So on this Veterans Day, Point in Olympia (2011). It Here we have also proudly explease pick up your phone and operated until seven years ago, panded our natural plant remedy tell a veteran that you love before being forced to close access beyond Cannabis, so if them. Thank them for their its doors (2016) to make way you know of a veteran that is in sacrifice, not their service. for a regulated retail Cannabis need of a plant-based approach A very special thanks to the market – an industry full of empty or option in their life, please biggest supporters of veterans promises for veterans and medcontact us immediately at twentyin the 502 market of Washington ical Cannabis patients alike. So 22many@gmail.com. There is no State. If you want to support a just like all the great activists and brand that supports veterans, location in the state that we can’t keep these companies in mind: movements in the world, we are get Cannabis to if a veteran can’t Washington Bud Company proudly – and more importantafford his/her own medicine.

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SERVES 5, 3 PER PERSON 15 mini frozen phyllo tart cups 2 tablespoons infused butter or oil, melted 8 ounces brie, cut in ¾ inch pieces 1/3 cup raspberry jam slivers of hot chili peppers (optional) 1. Heat oven to 340º F. Place the cups on a sheet pan covered with parchment. Brush the inside of each of the mini tart shells with the melted infused butter.

2. Place a piece of brie in each cup. Place a ½ teaspoon of jam on the cheese. Top with the slivers of pepper. Bake for 7- 9 minutes.

CRANBERRY CLUSTERFUX MAKES 15 CLUSTERS 12 ounce package white chocolate chips ½ cup dried cranberries, chopped if large ½ cup pecans, chopped 2 tablespoons infused butter, melted Shredded coconut (optional) 1. Line a sheet pan with parchment.

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2. Place white chocolate in a microwave safe bowl. Heat on medium power for 1 minute.

Remove and stir. Continue melting for 10 second intervals until melted.

3. Add remaining ingredients except coconut.

4. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheet. Sprinkle with coconut. Let set for at least 30 minutes.

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LET’S BEGIN TO GET IN THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT! IT’S NOVEMBER, THERE’S A CHILL IN THE AIR … AND SOME CANNABIS THAT SEEKS TO WARM UP SOME OF YOUR FINEST COOKING PLANS. Last night I made a bunch of canna-butter using Forbidden Fruit, an indica-dominant strain that entices the eyes, treats the nose to tropical mango and grapefruit aromas, and tastes simply sweet and sublime. It’s relaxing but not overly so, with a glow that allows me to be rather productive. I have a recipe for a grapefruit sorbet and I’m thinking that this delightful strain will really make it shine. I’m going to infuse the sugar – it will make a superb palate cleanser. I will keep you posted. Laurie@Laurieandmaryjane.com

2 tablespoons infused oil, butter or infused equivalent 2 cups parsnips, peeled and cut in chunks 1 cup sweet potatoes, peeled and cut in chunks 1 cup carrots, peeled and sliced 1 cup butternut squash, peeled and cut in chunks 1 medium onion, peeled and cut in chunks 1 tablespoon fresh rosemary 2 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon coarse black pepper 6-7 cups vegetable broth 1/3 cup sour cream, Greek yogurt or crema Pepita seeds 1. Heat oven to 340º F. In a large baking dish, combine the vegetables and toss with 2 tablespoons of infused oil, rosemary, salt and pepper. Roast until the vegetables are getting tender, stirring occasionally, approx. 45-50 minutes.

2. Place the vegetables in a large sauce pot and add the vegetable stock. Simmer for about 35 to 40 minutes, stirring a couple of times.

3. Carefully purée the soup with either an immersion or regular blender. Be careful, and if using a regular blender, purée in small batches. Add more vegetable stock if too thick. Heat again a few minutes and divide among 6 bowls.

4. Drizzle sour cream over each bowl. Top with the pepitas.

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Millenium Extracts Spotlight It’s time to get more baked than the turkey as we celebrate the harvest with a bountiful lineup of concentrates from Millennium Extracts.

Every holiday there’s the moment where the stoner cousin and the family troublemakers all share a knowing look before sneaking out for dabs, returning to the feast in a much happier and hungrier mood. When this writer first started sneaking out on Turkey Day, it was considered very lucky indeed to have weed to smoke – which was also a dead giveaway that we were high.

Thankfully for us all, Millennium Extracts has a full lineup of concentrates that will get you superbly stoned … without smelling like a blunt.

We love getting high on the go, so we started with the GG#4 live resin cartridge on a low-volt setting on our vape pen. First puffs deliver waves of sour-citrus gas that tickle the nose on a warm, funky exhale.

This gluey strain slows down thoughts and clears anxiety and stress away – perfect for prefunking on the way to a holiday party.

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the concentrate world, as evidenced by the Dope Cup award-winning logo on the packaging.

The shiny, snappable concentrate glistens as it melts down – releasing a thick wave of earthy cookies and a sour-cakey gas that melts over the mind and body like icing on a hot cake.

Superbly stoney, this strain kicked the munchies into high gear … making for a perfect second course of dabs.

We saved the Black Mojito for dessert – our after-dinner, cocktail-themed butter wax shining golden with terps and oozing a rich tropical wave of cherry and lime flavors – living up to the cocktail moniker. Low-temp dabs deliver a smooth and sweet vapor with a syrupy and sour exhale, brightening senses in an uplifting mental high that pairs perfectly with a relaxed body for a giggly and happy, end-of-the-feast buzz that’s thankfully calorie-free.

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Dive into the candied apple tradition with a fruity and creamy strain that’s a sweet treat to be thankful for this holiday season.

EFFECTS BUILT UP IN THE MIND AND BODY LIKE AN INFLATABLE SNOWMAN SLOWLY DANCING IN A GENTLE BREEZE.

THE HOLIDAZE can be stressful, hence our version of the name, which is why we are so grateful to have Cannabis this time of year.

Dealing with inflation, visiting family, daylight savings and extra traffic is worthy of a treat, and we couldn’t help but be enticed by the delicious Candy Apple by Cannagold.

Grown in a controlled environment greenhouse that uses the power of the sun and supplemental lighting, Cannagold produces top shelf flower that’s rich in terpenes and features a frosty bud structure reminiscent of indoor buds. With a wide variety of genetics covering old-school and new-hype strains, we jumped at the opportunity to sample an uplifting sativa named for a holiday sweet.

Candied apples were invented not as a tasty treat, but as a window decoration in a New Jersey candy shop in 1908. And while Cannabis was available in America at that time, there was nothing like the Candy Apple we’re smoking today – a pungent and flavorful cross of Tangie and Orange Creamsicle.

First notes are warm and earthy with floral honey and green-apple spice filling the senses, followed by a complex sugared-caramel finish that lingers as the buds are broken up.

The nugs are incredibly frosty with a medium density and a perfect cure, snapping and breaking up easily for loading or rolling. First hits are super smooth – allowing for big tokes that cover the palate in a spiced apple and citrus gas flavor – before exhaling like a whisper.

The smoke is so gentle on the lungs and sweet to the taste that we kept taking big rips – savoring each toke as effects built up in the mind and body like an inflatable snowman slowly dancing in a gentle breeze.

The Candy Apple delivers a cerebral buzz that’s balanced between stony and euphoric – the perfect high for a gift shopping trip or to make an ugly sweater feel warm and comfy.

With long-lasting effects and flavors worthy of the name, this strain is all the sativa you’ll need for putting the daze in your holidays.

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the craft co-op he Craft Co-Op is a collective of six farms in northeastern Washington, with the central four farms situated near the Canadian border. Ian Keith is the General Manager of the Farms Division, whose organic living soil methodology and use of lunar cycles guides the team of six full-time employees.

The son of a rancher and farmer, Keith

BY THE NUMBERS has been growing Cannabis medicinally 6 farms for 25 years, ever since the plant saved 15,000 plants his life. Today his passion is sharing high6 full-time employees 12 helpers for harvest quality sungrown Cannabis through The 2,000+ pounds of Craft Co-Op – featuring two brand-new flower harvested high-THCV strains in partnership with Phylos Bioscience with significant potential for medical use. We chatted over Zoom as he wrapped up the harvest in mid-October, hoping that together his small team could clear the thousands of plants before frost or snow. Keith calls it “riding the lightning” – and considering his connection to nature and lunar cycles, it’s clear that his experience is unique when it comes to the art of cultivation.

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Before you fell in love with Cannabis, it saved your life.

What happened? I got pancreatitis at 16 and the doctors said it would become cancer. I was wasting away in the hospital weighing only 90 pounds, and they told my mom I’d be lucky to make it to 20. Well, my mom wasn’t going to accept that and she was always a bit of a naturopath. We grew up organic, unvaxxed hippie kids believing plants were medicine, not pills. One day she brought Cannabis capsules into the hospital from a holistic doctor, and three days later my pancreas shrank down to a normal size and my mother signed me out.

plants experience real environmental stresses, and the cold nights for true finishing effects. So why was I chasing perfection indoors, when it’s hard to beat some of the perfection outdoors?

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At that time, and even today, that was a major risk to give you medicine. Have you been a patient since? I went full hippie in ‘97 and started treating my body with plants. I changed my diet, smoked a lot of Cannabis. And the only time in my life that I quit, I was managing a Honda/Yamaha garage and doing a lot of motorcycle racing, and my ex-wife wanted me to sober up. Within 28 days, I was hospitalized with a massive case of pancreatitis. Needless to say, I went right back to Cannabis – and that’s when I really started to hunt for the right cultivar to treat my ailment and share my medicine with others.

Have you always grown outdoors? I was an indoor farmer for years and years, growing my medicine inside. Coming outside, I enjoy sungrown Cannabis so much more. First off, you get a more robust terpene and cannabinoid profile – when the

What strain has been best for your condition? One of our main strains is also my medicine: Where’s My Bike that comes from Karma Genetics of Holland, whose parents are Amnesia Haze and Biker Kush. Since I’ve started growing commercially, it’s been our number one seller for nine years now, and it’s my specific phenotype that I back bred and stabilized. The plant is so amazing and robust, the terpene profile will knock you down when it gets the true late finish in the cold nights. I have three drying spaces full of colas as thick as my forearm – going inside is like walking into a wall of funk!

minor cannabinoid and the entourage effect, and doing great research. After seeing it with my own eyes and playing with their cultivars, trying the product myself, I’m quite amazed.

Give us the deets on the two new cuts!

We have the Get Shit Done, a 3:1 THCV to THC, and the Joy Ride is a 1:1 ratio. The GSD is called the coffee of weed and is so intensely loaded with THCV, that it barely gets you stoned. So as a stoner this might not be ideal, but for a guy like me with ADHD and dyslexia, this strain is wonderful and gives an incredible burst of energy and focus – especially when I mix it with a high-THC strain or use the Joy Ride 1:1. I want to collaborate with more farms to get a massive amount of this planted, and we need to get the old stigmas out of people’s heads.

It’s not all the same and certain cultivars have different effects on neurological symptoms and the chemical makeup of each of us humans – so as we delve more into the minor cannabinoids, I can’t wait to see what we will discover.

You’ve also got two new highTHCV strains in partnership THCV is also known for FARM DOGGY LUNA with Phylos Bioscience. Tell appetite suppression, me what inspired you to grow right? So no munchies? these new genetics? I love Cannabis and all Most people associate weed with the munchdifferent cultivars, but this new THCV that we’re ies, but THCV is known as the diet weed growing is the most exciting thing since Where’s because of its appetite suppression!

My Bike. Phylos has scientists doing the work I’ve wanted to do for years – they’re looking into every >> STORY CONTINUES NEXT PAGE

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the craft co-op You grow organically in living soil.

Why is this important? We like to say that we feed the soil. We are organic microbe farmers. We want happy, healthy living soil – whether it’s a small potted clone or a full-sun plant – there should be tons of microbes and mycelium fungi going nuts. Everything I’ve seen as a grower, microbial life is the key to happy, healthy plant growth, and the living soil food web is the real deal. Beyond the organic label, for me it’s more about the natural life … that’s why I pay attention to nature, weather patterns – and the moon!

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In all my years, I’ve never heard of growing based on the moon. It sounds like grower folklore! Everything I do here is based on the moon and lunar cycles, from cloning and harvesting to my transplanting, any stem manipulation or thinning of the plant – it’s all done based on moon schedules. The uptake of water and nutrients, when I’m providing extra or specific amendments to the plant at a specific time in its life cycle, we do that on a certain moon – or even a certain time of day – on a certain moon rise or fall.

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What is the blend of science and folklore that makes this work? For me, it was like folklore or the Farmers’ Almanac – old tales and ways our ancestors did these different things. They farmed for thousands of years without tractors or synthetics or pesticides, so the more I saw with my own eyes, it was like a slap in my face – this is not folklore, it’s science. Some of these are my trade secrets, but think about a rising moon, as in going from a new moon to a full moon. As the moon grows, the plants are in an incredibly aggressive growth pattern – whether shooting new growth or bud sites or the buds increasing in size depending on stage – during this upswing massive amounts of water and nutrients are used by the plant, compared to “IT DOESN’T the two weeks following. So when you pay MATTER IF YOU attention to these factors and the different ARE GROWING stages of plant growth, it’s huge.

CANNABIS OR TOMATOES OR CORN, THESE ARE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN DONE BY OUR ANCESTORS FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.”

Give us an example of the moon’s effect on the farm! We changed our cloning schedule, which is super important when providing thousands of plants a month, and manipulated the schedule to match the moon cycle for good healthy happy rooting and not an aggressive growth period. I started cloning only on those days each month, and I got 99% rooting in 7-10 days. With fellow like-minded farmers, I share my secrets here and there and spread the information as much as I can – because it doesn’t matter if you are growing Cannabis or tomatoes or corn, these are things that have been done by our ancestors for thousands of years.

And to watch what happens every day with tides and not think that the moon’s pull will have an effect on us, animals and plants – it affects the whole world massively and we all just take it for granted. I call it natural practices because we try to be one with nature.

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What’s your hope for the future of The Craft Co-Op? I believe that Cannabis can save the world, and the more that we change the vibe and the stigmas, the healthier everyone will be. So the more expansion we can do and collaborate with more farms, and delve deeper into the genetics game – I would love to be on the front lines of!

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Our cover of last month’s Tech Issue depicted a future Cannabis grow in space, and while the reality of Martian Kush is still a few decades away, we can look to a living biosphere in Eastern Washington for inspiration on how Cannabis can be cultivated in a truly unique environment.

As the name suggests, Legacy Organics is growing Cannabis with organic practices in a living biosphere – different from growing indoors where everything is kept sterile and the goal is to have the only life present be the plants – where everything alive is living in concert to produce a natural environment for the plants that stimulates terpene and trichome production.

“The biosphere is a method of growing that can be found nowhere else in Washington – a greenhouse hybrid model that is a positive air pressure structure utilizing energy-efficient lighting, but also natural UV rays.

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And having that paired with above-ground aerated pots and heated flower beds, and using a natural living soil … we are truly mimicking a living ecosystem that we are able to maintain year round,” t, the Operations and Sales Director explained.

“Everything we do – down to the weekly soil, sap and tissue analysis, tweaking the soil and amendments just right, adding in beneficial insects to tickle the root zone and increase the terpene profile and potency, and even the visual appeal of the product – it’s all by design.”

The living soil method of growing starts with soil that’s alive – and while that may sound like a non-sequitur – most cultivation is done in a sterile medium like coco or rockwool. Living soil is full of microorganisms that interact with the plant in the rhizosphere (“the zone of chemical, biological and physical influence generated by root growth and activity,” according to Nature Journal).

The Legacy team works to keep the soil environment alive with these organisms, right down to the beneficial arthropods (think little beetles) that crawl around in the dirt. The little critters tickle the plant’s roots, “LEGACY ORGANICS just like in nature – which triggers USES DATA AND increased terpene creation.

SCIENCE IN “To get the terpenes coming out COMBINATION like a communication device … we WITH THE NATURAL add micro arthropods, rogue beeELEMENTS TO tles, into the canopy – and that lets CREATE A HIGHLYthe plant know there’s life around CONTROLLED it, which creates more terpenes,” GROWING Glesener elaborated. “If this plant ENVIRONMENT was grown where it came from and THAT’S PERFECT FOR was being ate on by a caterpillar, CANNABIS PLANTS.” the plant’s terpenes would change the body odor of the caterpillar and draw in natural predators to eat them – so we try to mimic that and kick in the plants’ defense systems in a controlled environment.”

By carefully monitoring the garden’s elements, from the soil temperature and moisture levels, to sap analysis and genetic monitoring throughout a harvest cycle, Legacy Organics uses data and science in combination with the natural elements to create a highly-controlled growing environment that’s perfect for Cannabis plants.

“We are constantly adjusting GRAPE APE the light levels and the light intensity. We adjust the lumens and the spectrums. Right now we are adding more red spectrum going into flower and as the sun gets lower in the hemisphere, we’ll keep raising the intensity of the lights,” Jay Kennedy explained.

“Indoors the grower is like God, controlling all the elements in a sterile environment. Outdoors, or in our greenhouse, a grower is dancing with Mother Nature – adjusting to each change and using the sun to make plants that are happier.”

GARDEN MANAGER JAY KENNEDY & DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS AND SALES JOSIAH GLESENER

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This pursuit of perfection starts in a greenhouse that’s longer than a football field, with 1,400 plants inside that they harvest every three to four months – yielding 1,200 pounds of dry, sellable material and a stock of fresh-frozen products for concentrates. A significant portion of each harvest is now going to the Cookies greenhouse line in a powerhouse brand collab. But Legacy holds their own genetics and premium flower for their branded product line – producing flower and pre-rolls that are kept in glass and carry the same attention to detail from curing to packaging.

Inside the trimming and processing room, all the flower is kept in a temperature and humidity controlled environment. Fresh hash and joints are kept in a humidor to preserve the terpene profiles, and all the finished products end up in glass containers. This is both good for the environment and the weed itself – a choice that sets Legacy Organics apart from other brands.

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“FRESH HASH AND JOINTS ARE KEPT IN A HUMIDOR TO PRESERVE THE TERPENE PROFILES, AND ALL THE FINISHED PRODUCTS END UP IN GLASS CONTAINERS.”

“I really think our prerolls stand apart from the rest. Coming in glass, sustainable packaging, using only freshly-milled flower that’s moisture-checked and hand-tamped to lock in the freshness and terpene profile. We even have people meticulously brushing out each joint crutch tip to make sure there are no particles left to inhale – that’s how much we care,” said Glesener. “We even have colored crutches for customers to know indica versus sativa, and have joint packs up to 28 … so customers can buy in bulk and have a real supply of tasty joints. If you smoke a lot of pre-rolls, you want a big pack!”

Taking a draw on a Bubble Blunt – which is 20% concentrate and 80% flower – the flavor and terpenes flood the senses. The Funfetti has a delicious and complex fruity gas, with a syrupy tang and an extremely smooth hit … sending the mind to float above a perfectly sedated body. In the flower department, the Mikado smells like freshly-picked grapes with an earthy and gassy richness that smells good enough to eat. The terpenes dance and fill the mind with a blissful, full-spectrum high that brings the full flavor of the plant in each hit – treating the palate to a tasty range not found in indoor, monocropped flower.

“Living soil gives you the best smokable weed and smoking experience, hands down,” Kennedy said with a smile. “We work with nature, not against it.”

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rom sunkissed fields of terpy flowers to the infused beverage manufacturing line of Sungaze drinks, the team at Painted Rooster is growing beautiful Cannabis for a harvest-worthy smoking and drinking experience.

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Tucked in a commercial space directly behind the Moxie Police Department, the Painted Rooster and Sungaze facility fills the air with the aroma of harvest as you drive past the police vehicle storage lot. It’s a combination of a big warehouse and fields of outdoor Cannabis plants, grown above ground in pots under the famed Yakima Valley sun.

The delicious Sungaze drinks are born here, with a truly fitting name and delicious formula that was crafted by the master brewers at Bale Breaker – a fourth generation brewery in the valley. For CEO Douglas “DH” Henderson, the farmto-table approach is what attracted him to run the operation by utilizing his passion for high quality weed that is powered by the sun.

“From our compliance manager handdrawing store names on delivery boxes to our work in the field, we do a lot of personal touch stuff here,” Henderson tells us. “All these plants have hands on them CEO Douglas all season long.

“DH” Henderson That’s how I feel we can elevate it [sungrown Cannabis], beyond thinking of outdoor as biomass or larffy cheap ounces for 20 bucks. We’re not that.

It’s because of the care that we put into it, all the people that work here, the whole staff knows what they are doing and most of our team has been here for a couple seasons at least. It’s good to have a family that can back us up, because we can’t do the right thing for our retailers and customers if our whole team doesn’t care about each plant we grow.” >> STORY CONTINUES NEXT PAGE

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alking the rows of flower outdoors shows a farm which is focused on unique strains that produce well in the valley’s environment.

Each cultivar is known down to the breeder and crosses, and with several seasons under their belt, the growing process is geared towards next-level processes. This year, Painted Rooster teamed up with a graduate student’s research to do a bug and pest study that could have an impact on the entire sun-growing Cannabis community.

“The sticky traps in each row of plants are a project with Aaron Applebee, who is working on his Ph.D. at Washington State University in Entomology. Here next to the bug trap is a vial of pure terpenes, so we’re seeing which bugs are attracted to which terpene type, and we have some controls out here that don’t have any smell, and we swap these out every week,” Henderson explains. “They take these back to the lab to count and compare them by treatment to see which varieties will be more susceptible to which type of bug – or if I want to keep these bugs off my field – learning which cultivar or terpenes will keep the bugs away. It’s plant science!”

The sungrown flower powers both the infused beverages and a whole lineup of smokeables from the Painted Rooster brand – including concentrates, infused joints and premium flower. After harvest, the flower is kept whole and untrimmed in a temperature and humidity controlled environment, waiting to be pulled from a container to be turned into a joint or concentrate. This keeps the flavor and terpenes fresh, and helps ensure a year-round supply for consumers who want the organic-style sungrown flower. A popular jar size for Painted Rooster is the three-quarter ounce – and as a pesticide-tested company, people can use the flower for smoking or cooking.

“With a three-quarter ounce, you can get a bulk amount of Cannabis and still have seven grams on your limit to get pre-rolls or another flavor,” Henderson

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explains. “And we stand behind our organic practices and testing … our brand quality and credibility mean everything to us.”

Heading into harvest season, it’s easy to let ambition lead to too large of plants or too much material to take down.

After several seasons of growing in pots (which protects the plants from the valley’s soil that’s been an agricultural hub for centuries), the team has dialed in the sizing and scale of the grow so that plants are the perfect size and full of premium colas. This means planting in June and a shorter season, but a better harvest of higher quality bud for smoking and processing.

“We’re trying to keep the plants to a manageable size, so that when it comes time to harvest, we can do so as cleanly and efficiently as possible,” says Henderson. “Microbiology doesn’t stop, that’s why everyone wears gloves during harvest. We’ll be cleaning utensils and staying on it, because this is a product we want to go into somebody’s body – so we’ve got to treat it right. If you add too many touch points with big plants, sometimes it doesn’t work.”

BOTTLING TERPS Stepping inside the warehouse fills the mind with a constant thrumming.

Between the temperature-controlled cryo shipping container freezer and the bottling and canning machine filling Sungaze, the warehouse is a hive of activity.

The machinery used to make Sungaze is the same that you would find in the Bale Breaker brewery, but with a different input. There are giant silver containers: one holding water at extremely high temperatures to kill all bacteria, the

other full of the slurry that will become a delicious Sungaze. The ingredients are combined and then pressure pumped into each can, which is then capped while rolling down the line, then labeled and ready for a pallet. While most Cannabis drink companies had to learn this process, the Sungaze and Bale Breaker team were already experts in manufacturing – so they spent their energy on crafting lower potency beverages that are tasty and consistent every time.

“We’re on the shoulders of giants here in this developing market, where several Washington companies have led the space in drinkables. We come from the low-dose side and are trying to reduce the amount of sugar, and our

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goal is to get to a zero-sugar drink option,” Henderson shares excitedly. “It’s a lot of trial and error, formulation testing … Cannabis doesn’t taste great all by itself. So you are better off if you can get an edible that you want to enjoy – and even drink a sixpack in a night – instead of one beverage you don’t enjoy.”

Cracking open a Sungaze feels like sipping a better beer, with a foamy richness and a terpy tingle with each sip. The Lemon Ginger has a bright citrus front that tastes like liquid sunshine – bringing a perfect kick of slightly sour ginger on the finish, for a refreshing sip that calms stomachs and delivers the perfect 10mg THC/5mg CBD dose in the tall boy Supernova can.

Bringing a six-pack of Sungaze to an event

can allow a non-drinking Cannabis user to blend into the crowd with a tasty refreshment, enjoying a buzz that works with the body instead of against it.

While Sungaze is helping people who choose to consume Cannabis instead of alcohol, current regulations limit how many drinkable edibles a consumer can purchase by fluid-ounce volume, not potency. The daily purchase limit is 72 ounces (which is the equivalent of a sixpack, but by milligrams is less than 100 of THC and CBD). In other states, the limit is based on potency and there are small single-shot beverages with more THC than in a six-pack of Sungaze – but the legislature and LCB have yet to recognize the need for change.

“If you want to have a party, you have to go to the store four times to get a single case together – and you won’t even break 100mg of THC. Beyond liquid volume, it should be based on potency,” explains Henderson. “We got a bill through the Senate – sponsored

by Senator Curtis King, passed 47-1 – but it did not receive a House hearing or vote. All we want to do is set a milligram limit for beverages, so people can purchase as much as they want based on potency. We think there are so many people that are curious about Cannabis – that maybe had a bad experience with a high-potency edible – who can try a Sungaze, drink half of one, and if they like it … finish the whole thing.”

As the Cannabis market continues to mature, more and more customers are leaving the alcohol space and coming to Cannabis with new expectations.

While the industry and budtenders are trending towards higher potency products, many new or weekend consumers are looking for a lower dose experience that helps replace alcohol. This is the market Sungaze was made for – and the company is proving that there is a place for lower potency options in every Cannabis lover’s fridge.

“We’re so proud of these drinks,” Henderson shares. “Sungaze is the first craft Cannabis beverage to enter the space focused on flavor-forward instead of effect-forward. We really want people to embrace the taste and get more into that space – trying lower doses outside of 100mg, and to share a Sungaze with their friends!”

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From Arrest to Protest THE LEAF has always stood as a free publicaGrowing up in a Seattle suburb, weed was in a weird letion dedicated to medical patients and freedom for gal space. Seattle had decriminalized the plant and the few the plant, telling stories of healing and loss, and times I had interactions with cops and weed, it was only to sharing the truth as we see it through the lens of have it confiscated or be told to step on it, crushing a bag the sick and oppressed. of BC Bud into the dirt. But only a few months before my While today’s patients have a lot of options, in 21st birthday, as captain of the college tennis team and 2010 the best case scenario for MMJ seekers was business manager of the student newspaper, I was arrested laughter – and the worst, jail or death. I have interfor possession of a gram of “leafy vegetable matter.” viewed patients from prison and their deathbeds, It was a Wednesday in June, and my good friend Daniel and seen children with intractable epilepsy live Berman (our Leaf Creative Director) and my very preghealthy lives because their parents defied laws and nant girlfriend headed down to a local beach for a quiet big pharma to give their children a plant. bonfire. Our lives were changing, mine quite majorly, and The fight for access to a plant that heals, and so we lit a fire and Daniel and I each cracked a single to end a drug war that hurts, has often felt like a 24-ounce beer – preparing to smoke battle of good versus evil.

“Suddenly the very sad looking gram of weed we But it’s not that simple, because a bright had between the two of us. Suddenly our government and teachers and flashlight a bright flashlight lit us up and behind police officers told us that pot lit us up and the glare a cop appeared, smoking a was evil. The devil’s lettuce. The behind the glare cigar and wearing a cowboy hat. His gateway drug. A message repeated a cop appeared, partner had circled behind us, and with blindly and taught by DARE – one smoking a cigar a classic “we got ya” attitude, the cops that has to be reprogrammed, a and wearing a proceeded to arrest us. narrative that must be retold. cowboy hat.”

This was in a suburb and the local When the Leaf began in 2010, it high school had senior graduation was a project that I thought would that day, and these cops were the party patrol. While they take me to Law School – my own testament to couldn’t believe that we were in college, or that the pregfighting for the oppressed, which is what attracted nant woman wasn’t secretly drinking one of the two beers, me to using the law in defense of those wronged they arrested myself and Daniel before releasing us on the by the system itself. To date, this project has never beach with a court summons. stopped … instead spreading like the weed we Weeks later, as my mom cried while we waited for my once feared. Northwest Leaf has published an court hearing, she asked me a tough question: “Wesley, issue every single month in Washington since June is this what you want your life to be?” She did not like 2010, with our November 2023 Harvest Issue my answer, but it burned inside me like a fire. I told her being the 161st monthly issue. directly that I didn’t believe I deserved to be in court We’ve published in Oregon since 2014, Alaska for Cannabis. This planted the seeds for my belief that 2016, Maryland 2018, California and our eightnobody should lose their freedom or rights for a plant – state Northeast edition since 2020 – and now which would matter greatly when I was first introduced to Utah begins our first quarterly edition with the medical Cannabis. partnership of Salt Baked City.

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I lived a boy’s life growing up: Fishing and dirt-biking and generally being as risky as possible, without breaking bones or rules.

For my best friend David the limits were more fluid, and it wasn’t long after my pot arrest that he crashed in a motocross event and fractured his pelvis in three pieces. To put him in traction, doctors at a prominent Seattle hospital drilled a pencil-sized hole through his knee and then promptly overdosed him on morphine. He died and was resuscitated on the operating table, and they could not provide NORTHEAST him painkillers for the first two weeks of an incredibly painful recovery.

When I first saw David after the accident, he looked many years older – more frail and had more pills than I had ever seen. I snuck him off to get high and the Cannabis helped with his pain. He began pushing his father to allow him a medical Cannabis authorization and facing the prospect of long-term opiate dependence, David became one of the first minor medical Cannabis patients at age 17 (he was a few years younger than me) in Washington.

The plant healed him, helped him recover THE WEED & WELLNESS ISSUE without opiates, and turned us both into something more than just “stoners.” He began growing and after a trip to California for canna-tourism, he returned in a twist of fate with Cannabis magazines.

By this point I was 21, had a one-year-old daughter, and I’d left a Division 1 tennis scholarship behind and was splitting time between contracting as a builder and moving furniture. But when I saw the magazines writing about weed, I knew that it was something I could do – because Daniel and I had worked on our college paper, and David knew business. We outlined a plan over the winter for a first edition that would be distributed to the dozen or so MMJ collectives in Seattle, found a printer, and convinced David’s dad to loan us $1,600 to print the first issue of the Leaf. It was 16 pages and the same dimensions as this magazine you hold, but printed on newspaper and unstapled. It was a tabloid, it was underground, and it created a spark in the Seattle medical Cannabis scene that still burns today.

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“We believe in the right to grow Cannabis at home, and that homegrow doesn’t pose a threat to the medical industry. And we believe in the right for brands and companies to advertise and share their products – if we can allow big pharma companies to dominate television advertising, how does hiding the benefits of medical Cannabis products serve the patients of Utah?”

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At the Leaf, we believe that all use of Cannabis is medicinal – because it heals without causing harm. No other drug can make this claim. We believe that all people should be free to use Cannabis medically or recreationally, in any form, from topicals and tinctures to smoking flower.

We believe in the right to grow Cannabis at home, and that homegrow doesn’t pose a threat to the medical industry. And we believe in the right for brands and companies to advertise and share their products – if we can allow big pharma companies to dominate television advertising, how does hiding the benefits of medical Cannabis products serve the patients of our country?

Cannabis opens minds and generates empathy and understanding, so let’s lay down our stigmas and instead embrace our community, and end the War on Drugs that has caused so much harm. I have high hopes for Leaf Magazines and it is an honor to serve this beautiful state and community with Cannabis journalism. I hope and pray to do so for many years to come.

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jazminemoore The journey to completing a collegiate culinary degree nearly killed Jazmine Moore. In 2007, Jazmine overcame a variety of health ailments to reach the finish line of a senior campaign at Baltimore International Culinary College. “My friends were pleading for me to go get help,” recalled the native of Washington D.C. “I was losing weight, I was fatigued and I couldn’t keep any food down.

But I just kind of refused to accept it. I kept pushing through until the end of college.”

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When an emaciated Jazmine finally sought medical help, she meagerly made her way through the doors of the hospital at a mere 84 pounds.

“I was really skinny,” the 37-year-old recollected.

Jazmine was given a diagnosis of Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel disease that impacts the gastrointestinal tract, often upending patients’ lives and forcing a regimented way of life.

Jazmine’s health was monitored closely over a five-week stay at the Washington Hospital Center – a place she credits with giving her the foundational keys to a new life at the ripe age of 21. Some of those lessons she took home, while others, she pooh-poohed.

“I knew that I had to live differently, but I refused to accept the lifestyle the doctor wanted me to live,” she said. “They wanted me to get a bag in my stomach, have a specific diet and take all these medications. I was 21! I just did all this work, and graduated from college. I wanted to celebrate, not do all that. So I started looking for alternative remedies that could help.”

Her mother, Trinna, was a raw food vegan chef – which certainly helped flavor an initial adherence to a starch-heavy diet consisting of rice, potatoes and white bread. However, Trinna had a surprising ingredient she was about to add to Jazmine’s sustenance: Cannabis.

Jazmine departed the hospital at 96 pounds, up a dozen from her entry. While she was leaving behind a medical picc line that delivered nutrients intravenously, her mother was encouraging her daughter to pick up a natural substance that could quell her inflammation and encourage a necessary appetite.

“People always laugh when I say my mother introduced me to Cannabis,” smiled Jazmine. “But she didn’t say, ‘Go get high.’ What she did was introduce me to a man named Dr. Patterson, who taught me about cannabinoids and cooking with Cannabis. He showed me that I could treat my condition by microdosing.”

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Jazmine began making infused smoothies – “juicing” hemp leaves, or just “chucking a nug” into a blend that provided relief for daily inflammation. But she was just getting started. A harrowing health scare had inspired a foray into Cannabis cuisine, broadening the horizons of a young woman with a passion for the culinary and a degree to prove it. Her life has never been the same.

“Sixteen years later, I do not take any medications besides Cannabis and food,” she said.

Jazmine dives into her culinary creativity to microdose 25mg of CBD in a variety of ways including, but not limited to, sandwich toppings, honey, salads, or even drizzling infused spreads on tasty foods such as popcorn.

“Everyone has their own journey, so I don’t push my experience on another,” cautioned the graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School. “But if they do want to know, I try to teach the fundamentals about the Endocannabinoid System and just give the tools for those on their own journey.”

Jazmine has taken on the professional moniker of Green Panther Chef, combining her love of the cougar cat with a passion for living a sustainable and holistic lifestyle.

The Green Panther Chef is now a published author, releasing an infused eating guide entitled “More than a Cannabis Cookbook.”

The book, which can be found on Amazon.com, provides readers insight into her background, a comprehensive understanding of the Endocannabinoid System, more than 75 infused recipes, and journal prompts to help track progress.

“There’s a whole section in the book where I talk about different terpene pairings and what they can do for you,” she said. “It’s something I really subscribe to because it’s helped me with GI symptoms, even down to improved sleep.”

Jazmine also runs the Green Panther Chef Cannabis Catering Company, hosting a storefront in Brentwood, Maryland, alongside her mother Trinna. The Moore mother and daughter combination can often be found working side-by-side in the kitchen, which Jazmine fondly refers to as “The Lab.” “It means everything to me that she’s even a part of this journey,” Jazmine said. “She’s always been so supportive and encouraged the best out of me. I mean, at her age (67), to be with me through all the ups and downs of this business … she doesn’t have to do that. It just means the world to me.” YouTube.com/@GreenPantherChef

“Everyone has their own journey, so I don’t push my experience on another.

But if they do want to know, I try to teach the fundamentals about the Endocannabinoid System and just give the tools for those on their own journey.”

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UH OH, I’VE CROSSED THE LINE. Boy, am I gonna get my ass kicked now. I stated the opinion that everyone else is thinking, but is too afraid to actually voice … at least openly in public. And the last thing you want to do is belittle the thing to which these irrefutable enthusiasts attach their identity – because if you insult the motorcycle, you insult the person riding it. And that’s a surefire way to get stuck in the gut by a Hell’s Angel, Altamont style.

Hey, Harley Rider: I get it. You want people to think you’re a lion in the jungle, that your ear-curdling roar induces tingles of hair-raising fear. And that you just don’t give a fuck what anyone thinks. Which is ironic. Because it would appear that you care very much about what everyone thinks, otherwise your motor would be muffled. Intent on convincing us that you’re unconventional – a rebel, unique, fringe, anti-establishment. It’s just that it’s hard to be persuaded when the company you fiercely endorse had a spreadsheet of over $5 billion in revenue last year.

Now, motorcycles are cool. And if it’s not raining, they make an exciting form of transportation. It’s liberating when the sativa-soaked sun shines on your face with the unbridled summer wind sweeping your body while you harness a stout speed machine. And what do I care if your favorite pastime is standing around inspecting one another’s saddles like dogs sniffing their buddy’s backside?

To each his own.

But could you turn down the volume a little? It’s irritating when your conversation is jolted by a passing DC-10 on the street, that’s all.

Note: This never applies to a lady on a Harley. Baddies on bikes are always awesome, no matter what – and have a license to crank their volume any time they feel overcome with the need to express themselves.

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