BREEDER DIARIES FEATURE, SKUNK MAGAZINE
Photo: Orchard Garden, Rebel Grown Farms, Southern Humboldt | 2017
Sometimes when reminiscing of the past, your memory is all it takes to create a Time Machine and enjoy those special moments again. However, something I strive for is to stay as aware and conscious as possible, and to try to remain in the past present and future at all times. Tough task.
In the late 90s once I figured out how to use the Internet I started messaging High Times on their website, asking them if I could be a journalist or even an intern. They never wrote back.
I read Paradise Burning: Adventures of a High Times Journalist (1998), by Chris Simunek, a book detailing his experiences working for the cannabis-culture magazine. But I always wanted more. More details about the people involved growing and selling it, more stories of how the strains were created, or access to the realist people living what I could only dream about, being deeply ingrained in a life of the underground cannabis world.
I kept a good collection of weed magazines. High Times, cannabis culture, Skunk, and Heads. It eventually became sort of a library for friends who were into growing or wanted more information about herb. Back in the day my Grower friends could come to me with a topic and I would find a magazine that had an article addressing it. I would let them borrow the magazine, and most of the time they would bring it back, without late fees.
Years later as a grower in Humboldt I had an opportunity to work with some of the magazines.
Grow Magazine and Skunk magazine both featured articles that I wrote, and articles about me written by other people. The Ganjier also published articles I wrote on their initial website back in the day.
The work I did in 2010 was featured in High Times, although the Farm owner was the featured story. High Times has since covered awards that we’ve won and little features here in there.
I’ve decided to start sharing some of the articles I’ve wrote or been featured in on our website.
For each article we put up we’ll release a limited batch of a new seed variety, and offer a special one time discount on another.
We’re starting with this feature of the Breeder Diaries in Skunk Magazine from 2019.
