East Fork receives a lot of customer inquiries and questions, ranging from how we make our product formulations to what our business values look like. One of the most common areas of questions we get is related to our cultivation practices. We decided to turn some of the more common questions we get to our Cultivation Director, Spencer Kendall, for an update on our cultivation methods.

There are compelling and urgent reasons for informed consumers to choose sungrown cannabis. These include:

• experiencing the full natural expression of the plant

• a 99% lighter carbon footprint (or even carbon-negative impact) toward climate change

• the enrichment of soil and ecosystems through regenerative farming

Our Cultivation Team is happily finishing up plant out, the team’s busiest season of the year. This year we will be trialing a few different no-till methods, with the goal of continually improving our relationship with the farm’s ecology.

Entering our seventh cultivation season, our team is beyond excited at the promise of this year's cultivar selection. Here’s a sneak peak at what we’re currently cultivating for your future delight.

The East Fork team found ourselves facing new and truly daunting challenges coming into the Fall 2020 harvest season.

Harvest is always a huge lift and very time-sensitive, but this year we were starting with less preparation than ever — immediately after narrowly surviving the devastating wildfires in our region. Our team, who had mostly been evacuated from their homes for a couple of weeks, had to leap into action immediately upon their return.

The Cultivation Classic is the most scientifically rigorous competition on Earth, and judges craft cannabis grown in Oregon.

East Fork Cultivars was honored to win Gold again this year at the 2020 Cultivation Classic.

At East Fork, we are committed to offering our customers the highest quality cannabis flower. As breeders, we aim to create resinous, terpenoid- and cannabinoid-rich cultivars. We want to continuously breed plants for traits like pest resistance, novel chemical profiles (or chemotypes), and plant morphology in order to explore the potential of the cannabis plant and maximize its ability to provide relief for a wide variety of people. Simultaneously, we want to create a productive crop that is as easy to cultivate and process as possible.