Where WE Come From
Vermont has made good food for a long time. Maple, dairy, cheese, beef. The best of it tells you where it came from, and you can taste it. Cannabis is the same. Weed grown in living soil by the river tastes different from weed grown indoors under lights.
The land, the weather, and the soil all show up in the flower. A lot of what you see on shelves was built to grow fast and last long. That is fine, but it is a different thing than what we do. We grow here because this land is worth it, and we think the difference is worth tasting.
How We Work the Land
The farmhouse here was built in 1805, and the soil has been farmed ever since. It is sandy loam, fed by spring water and 200 years of river deposits. We did not build this soil. We just take care of it.
That means living soil, full of good microbes and fungi that feed the plants. We handle pests with bugs like ladybugs, mantises, lacewings, and wasps, plus flowers that keep things in balance. We make our own compost right here using our cattle. We plant cover crops after harvest. The water comes from a spring on the land. No chemicals. No shortcuts.
We Grow Every Plant From Seed
Every plant starts from our own seed. We run a breeding program that mixes old landrace strains with proven modern ones. Plants grown from seed root deeper and bond with the soil from day one. The strains we get are made for this land, this weather, and this valley. You will not find them anywhere else.
Full Sun
Windsor sits low in the Connecticut River Valley, where the season starts early and the land holds heat and water. Our plants get full sun from spring into late fall. They live their whole life outside, in the ground, under real sunlight. You can taste what that does to the flower.
Our name
The name came from the land, and so did our crest. Every part of it means something. The sun in the middle is what powers the farm. The land under it is this floodplain and its 200 years of farming. The leaf is the crop we grow and tend by hand. The year 2023 is when we started this chapter. The border is a nod to good old craft, the kind that finishes every detail right.