Our Mission:
To supply & support a sustainable ecologically-optimized cannabis hemp industry with genetics, gear and resources that promote biodiversity & resilience, locally-adapted varieties (local ecotypes), the conservation & regeneration of genetic diversity, healthy soils, and cultivation practices that integrate & harmonize with the surrounding ecosystem and landscape.
Our Values:
The cannabis hemp plant has since ancient times been associated with numerous collectively-shared environmental and social values which we align and resonate with, including:
- Biodiversity & resilience
- Native, indigenous, or locally-adapted/naturalized species & cultivars (aka local ecotypes aka landraces)
- Conservation & regeneration of genetic diversity, germplasm & genetic material (including the origin habitats/ecosystems where genetic material is sourced/obtained from)
- Pollinator habitat
- Wildlife habitat
- Mitigate external threats/environmental stressors (to agro-ecosystem health and genome integrity)
- Sustainable agriculture practices (organic biodynamic regenerative permaculture etc.) that promote soil health and integrate/harmonize with the surrounding ecosystem & landscape
- Homegrown, artisan/craft-grown, family-farming
- Cultural heritage value (iconic species & landscapes)
- Developing one’s sense of interconnection with the natural world
- Participation in natural processes & cultural traditions
- Religious, sacred & traditional ceremonial/ritual use
- Traditional medicine
- Traditional ecological knowledge
- Sacred ecology: reconnecting with nature, spiritual renewal & personal transcendence
- Healing, restoration & regeneration of the biosphere / global ecosystem
- Environmental ethics & intergenerational justice
- Community, cooperation & symbiosis
- Universal brotherhood/sisterhood & global harmony / One Human Family