rooted in the mud

Like many swamp plant species, our flowers are rooted in both water and soil. Our cultivation method is a hybrid of regenerative organic farming and closed-loop aquaponics. We engineer a curated natural environment and let nature take its course. We let our plants thrive in the context in which they evolved. The more diverse the environment, the more robust. Many issues arise when monocropping, especially when using synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. These issues include explosive disease outbreaks, nutrient, oxygen, and CO2 imbalances, fertilizer salt or heavy metal build-up, and pesticide residue. In nature, these issues don't exist or are very rare. A diverse ecosystem is very good at attenuating threats and correcting imbalances. It also optimizes genetic expression, which is the primary reason we use the dual root-zone method.

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Our flower is brought to life in the environment that shaped it. For thousands of years, cannabis grew wild in river valleys and flood plains, where roots reached into both fertile soils and ebbing and flowing water. These natural environments offered a living ecosystem: oxygen-rich water, nutrient-dense soils, decaying plants, shells, and microbes working together to provide everything the plant needed to thrive.​​ We’ve recreated that natural balance. Our plants have two separate root masses, in two separate biomes. One is in a clean, oxygenated aquaponic system that floods and drains like a flood plain, while the other grows in organic living soil full of natural inputs such as clay minerals, shells, and plant matter from our own habitat. Our swamp sanctuary is full of plant, microbe and animal species that are native to Mississippi. We even include potassium rich illite in our living soil that we source from Yazoo Clay deposits. Our aquaponic system is powered by channel catfish and red crayfish. The basic principal is that we provide our catfish with organic and nutritious feed, they generate waste that is broken down by our crawfish and converted to a bioavailable form by nitrifying bacteria in the water, then our plants uptake nutrients as needed.

Our system gives cannabis the full spectrum of nutrients it evolved with, in both fast-acting mineral and slow-release organic forms. This is especially important for genetic expression because of how metabolic pathway activation is dependent upon the form in which a nutrient is supplied. Nitrogen is the single most important nutrient for regulating metabolism, and thereby genetic expression. Our system's aquatic zone provides immediate, stable access to nitrogen as nitrates and ammonium, which regulate root architecture and shoot growth, and influences uptake of other nutrients (such as calcium, magnesium, and potassium). The soil zone supplies carbon-bound nitrogen that feeds both plants and microbes. It can act as both a nutrient and signaling molecule influencing root exudation, microbial recruitment, and stress responses. In this sort of environment, plants can choose metabolic pathways depending on energy cost and environmental signals. Research shows mixed nitrogen nutrition can improve secondary metabolite production.

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Why does this matter to you as a patient? That means a richer aroma and flavor, and enhanced therapeutic power through fuller cannabinoid, terpene, flavonoid, and alkaloid profiles. The magic of cannabis is born of the complex relationship between these compounds, and because it is not yet fully understood, we simply do our best to make sure that relationship is as deep and expressive as possible. 

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