Understanding VPD: The Hidden Variable That Drives Plant Health
A grower’s guide to understanding VPD and how mastering it creates healthier, faster-growing, more resilient plants.
The Top 5 Mistakes Homegrowers Make — And How to Avoid Them
Avoid common homegrow mistakes with this guide on watering, feeding, lighting, and soil balance.
We Are the Instrument
Discover how meditation, mindfulness, and reflection reveal the mind’s depth – because we are the instrument of awareness.
Cultivation as Calibration: The Art of Daily Tuning
Cultivation is never static—it’s a living conversation between grower, plant, and soil. Learn how daily calibration brings harmony, balance, and insight to your grow.
The Art of Knowing When: Persistence, Pivoting, and Clarity
Learning when to persist or pivot is the art of mindful decision-making and personal clarity.
Trichoderma & Bacillus: Microbial Allies in Cultivation
Discover how Trichoderma and Bacillus microbes strengthen roots, enhance nutrient cycling, and improve plant resilience.
The Threshold: Continue Without Carrying
A reflection on learning to release old patterns, tools, and fears to continue life’s journey unburdened.
Cannabis Consulting: A Step By Step Approach
cultivation consulting, cannabis facility optimization, soil testing, lighting SOP, team training
Calcium: The Quiet Architect of Plant Structure and Strength
Calcium is the unsung hero of plant structure and stability. It cross-links cell walls, strengthens roots, and improves soil texture. Learn how to deliver calcium consistently, choose the right source, and create an environment where your plants can thrive from root to flower.
Beneath the Surface: Exploring Ancestral Memory
Exploring the invisible threads of our 300,000-year lineage and what it means to belong to deep human time.
Preparing Your Garden for Spring: Building Soil in the Fall
Autumn isn’t the end of the growing season—it’s the beginning of next year’s soil. Learn how leaf mulch, worms, compost, and compost tea create a living system that builds fertility and resilience through winter.
The Energy of the Storm: Training the Mind for Life’s Chaos
Storms test us. From Buddha’s calm beneath the Bodhi tree to modern mindfulness practices, this piece explores how training the mind transforms chaos into clarity and strength.
Fish Hydrolysate: Feeding Soil, Not Just Plants
Fish hydrolysate is more than fertilizer: it’s microbe food. Rich in amino acids, oils, and minerals, it boosts microbial metabolism, nutrient cycling, and soil structure, strengthening the soil food web from the ground up.
The Open Secret: Mind-Body Gardening
Mind-Body Gardening explores how tuning our inner instrument—through rest, nutrition, movement, reflection, and connection—creates fertile soil for insight and joy.
Kelp: Micronutrients with a Motor
Kelp has been used for centuries as food, medicine, and fertilizer. On our farm, it’s one of the most reliable ways to feed the soil web and stimulate plant vitality. Learn how this ocean-born biostimulant supports plant growth, improves stress resistance, and enriches soil ecosystems.
Redemption Song: Lessons from Rosh Hashanah & Ryder Cup
Rosh Hashanah and the Ryder Cup reveal surprising parallels in redemption, reflection, and the call for a reset.
The Wild World of Humic Acid: Unlocking Soil’s Ancient Power
Explore humic acid: soil’s ancient conductor that improves nutrient cycling, microbial balance, and plant vitality in cultivation.
The One: Chasing Flow, Balance, and Presence
“The One” – rare flow moments where risk, presence, and meaning converge.
Rooted Within: The Soil Beneath Our Skin
Soil and gut biomes share hidden wisdom. Cultivation reveals how diversity fuels resilience, health, and sustainable growth.
100 Foot Wave: Lessons on Risk Tolerance
Big wave surfing at Nazaré reveals powerful lessons on risk tolerance, fear, resilience, and presence in life’s pursuits.
Pheno Hunting: How We Select the Best Cultivars
Discover the art of pheno hunting—how cultivators select top cannabis strains for yield, terpenes, potency, and structure.
The Letting Go: A Meditation on Change
Explore how autumn teaches letting go, revealing hidden gifts and freedom through release in this week’s meditation.
Integrated Pest Management: Best Practices for Indoor Cultivation
Best practices in IPM: sprays, airflow, and environment keep pests and pathogens under control in indoor cultivation.
Find the Light: Healing Through Tikkun Olam
Discover how tikkun olam teaches us to find the light within ourselves and repair the world through inner healing.
Ritual and Routine: Anchors for a Meaningful Life
Ritual and routine anchor us against life’s chaos, creating structure, meaning, and growth through disciplined daily practice.
Hope vs Optimism: Seeds, Branches, and Daily Practice
Reflect on the roots of hope and optimism, and learn how daily rhythms nurture these essential qualities for resilience.
Summer Heat as a Teacher of Reflection and Rest
Summer’s heat teaches us to pause, reflect, and lean into rest as a deeper form of growth and mindfulness.
Why I Compete: Lessons from the Oregon Stroke Play Championship
Competition sharpens presence and reveals truth – why stepping into the arena transforms pressure into resilience and growth.
Let’s Cultivate: Seed, Seedling, Flower, Harvest
Cultivation is a life practice: seed intention, nurture beginnings, sustain bloom, and celebrate harvest with community and heart.
Life Force Pyramid: Body, Self, and Others in Balance
Reframe Phil Stutz’s Life Force Pyramid as an engine of body, self, and others working together for growth.
Find the Leak in Your Life’s Closed-Loop Systems
Identify and fix life’s “leaks” – small inefficiencies that drain energy and progress – through insights from cycling and cultivation.
Finding Personal Freedom on Independence Day
Explore Independence Day as a mirror for personal freedom, uncovering blind spots and breaking free from inner tyranny.
Solstice and Impermanence: Embracing Change Through Seasonal Rhythms
The summer solstice reminds us: embrace life’s highlights with gratitude, then let go and return to mindful rhythms.
Embracing Uncertainty: Finding Gratitude and Strength in the Unknown
Uncertainty can feel heavy, but surrendering to the present moment transforms it into resilience, acceptance, and gratitude.
Turn the Page: Change, Suffering & Liberation
Suffering often signals it’s time to change. Turning the page brings freedom, renewal, and space for growth.
Radical Acceptance and Resilience
Radical acceptance means facing reality with humility, resilience, and grit, transforming loss into strength and growth.
Something Out of Nothing: The Creative Spark of Founders and Makers
Inspired by student entrepreneurs, this meditation explores the fearless spark of creativity, risk, and the magic of making something out of nothing.
Decoration Day: Flowers, Memory, and the Interconnectedness of Life
A reflection on Decoration Day, flowers as symbols of fleeting beauty, and the meditation on interconnectedness, memory, and life.
Cycle of Day and Night: Sleep, Presence, and the Gift of Impermanence
Discover how sleep, plant rhythms, and meditation on impermanence reveal the cycle of day and night as profound practice.
Nurture: The Root of Care, Growth, and Connection
Reflect on the power of nurture in parenting, business, and nature, and discover how daily care creates growth and balance.
Chasing Twilight: Finding Peace in the Half-Light
Twilight, the half-light between day and night, offers a profound chance for presence, reflection, and mindful gratitude.
Trust: The Foundation of Healing and Connection
A bitter TCM herbal brew evolves into ritual, revealing how trust in healing, relationships, and nature creates stability and grace.
Rise Again: The Practice of Renewal and Rebirth
Lilacs, Easter, and Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” inspire reflection on renewal, seasonal rebirth, and life’s ongoing call to rise again.
Resilience in the Arena: Lessons from Rory and the Mid-Am
Inspired by Rory McIlroy’s Masters win and local golf struggles, this meditation explores resilience, nerves, and the courage to persevere.
Counting to Twelve: Finding Stillness in a Noisy World
Pablo Neruda’s “Keeping Quiet” teaches stillness amid chaos, reminding us that silence, breath, and presence restore peace and balance.