Garden Society is one of those rare cannabis brands that has managed to authentically develop a fully-formed identity, from it sourcing practices, leadership, branding, and of course, execution. And it all began with the brand’s Co-Founders, Erin Gore and Karli Warner, who are friends, mothers, and real-life cannabis consumers, and whose mission was to create…
Archives for March 2020
Buzzed Q&A With Jamie Evans AKA The Herb Somm
Jamie Evans, Founder of The Herb Somm, is someone you’ll probably hear me write about more than once on this blog, because she’s a dear friend, frequent collaborator, and fellow culinary cannabis professional. We somehow began following each other on Instagram years ago, and after an exchange of likes back and forth, one day I…
Unpopular Opinion: Indica and Sativa Are Meaningless ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It wasn’t too long ago that the average American consumer’s understanding of wine started and ended with, “White with fish, red with meat.” Broadly categorial rules like this served to guide an novice consumer and simplify difficult to pronounce grape varieties, faraway regions, and misunderstood categorization systems. But “white” and “red” as categories leaves no…
The Grow-Off: Testing for Terroir
The word terroir conjures images of warm breezes, alluvial soils and sunny slopes for even the most novice wine connoisseur, but in the nascent world of cannabis, the same term carries less-familiar connotations. There’s no “terroir” to be had with indoor cultivation sites and their hyper-managed climates, which make up a large percentage of the…
Review: Herbés
I wanted to like Herbés; truly, I did. At first glance, there’s nothing to not like about this luxury-branded cannagar, which comes in a chic cobalt blue box that looks expensive, is beautifully designed, and feels fancy. A cigar band cleverly hints to a cigar-like smoking experience, and with two grams of cannabis per cannagar,…
Review: Sunday Goods
I’ve seen Sunday Goods around for a while, but recently had the chance to give them a try when Altered Plates partnered with Weedmaps on a pairing dinner, with Sunday Goods as the featured brand. I’d long admired the pre-rolls’ branding, with chic seven-pack tins that are offered in three effect-based expressions, Spark, Delight, and…