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.

We wouldn’t have modern day cannabis legalization if it weren’t for the sustained work of LGBTQIA+ activists. We want to honor and thank the trailblazers before us, who fought tooth and nail for medical cannabis rights. These folks sacrificed so much for their community and for us all.

After analyzing the data from our 2020 field trials, East Fork is thrilled to announce a limited release of our Oregon Guava and Oregon Swell to hemp farmers as feminized seed for the 2021 season.

Both of these cultivars have performed consistently throughout our partner farm trial sites, and have proven demand in the craft hemp flower market.

Are you juicing? Are you smoking? Gifting? People are using their CBD hemp in all sorts of ways. Explore fun ways to use your hemp in our third installment of Ask A Grower. We have teamed up with our friends at Grow It From Home to bring you some fantastic hemp to grow at home. Grow It From Home’s head gardener Emily Gogol, works with chefs, mixologists and wellness experts to help you confidently grow and enjoy your hemp.

East Fork was highly fortunate to add Amy Speciale to our llama herd in late 2020. Originally slated to manage Hemp Bar, Amy’s responsibilities quickly grew to encompass a much-needed Director of Operations role for the company at large.

Let's debunk some myths together in our second installment of Ask A Grower! We have teamed up with our friends at Grow It From Home to bring you some fantastic hemp to grow at home. Grow It From Home’s head gardener Emily Gogol, will help you grow hemp at home easily and with confidence.

Our team stays busy and we love to see their work highlighted! Here are some press highlights of articles our team was featured in March 2021. Our March 2021 press highlights include features on Skip Newcomb in a cultivation series, Anna Symonds profile for International Women’s Day, and Nathan Howard’s op-ed on Don’t Count Out Portland.

As Oregon continues to see growth in the recreational cannabis market, the Oregon Cannabis Equity Act provides an opportunity for Oregon to pass the most comprehensive, holistic approach to cannabis equity in the United States.

This Act focuses on widespread reinvestment in the communities that have been hurt most by racial profiling and the War on Drugs – Black, Indigenous and Latina/o/x communities.

Just in time for growing season, we have expanded our hemp seed offerings. We have teamed up with our friends at Grow It From Home to release a 3-part series on common questions about growing hemp at home.

Welcome to ask a grower with Emily Gogol, head gardener at Grow It From Home. Emily has years of experience growing all sorts of plants in urban gardens and is an expert on growing hemp at home!

East Fork Cultivars is proud to announce the addition of Tricia Chin and Anna Symonds to its leadership team. Tricia joins the team as a Co-Owner, carrying on the legacy and vision of her late husband Joel Fischer, East Fork Cultivars' Ambassador of Happiness. Anna has been named East Fork’s Chief Communications Officer, a recognition of the additional responsibilities she’s already been managing beyond the scope of her previous title as Director of Education.

June 17th, 2021, is the 50th anniversary of President Nixon formally launching America's "War on Drugs", a tragic, unyielding effort that continues to devastate foreign and domestic communities (especially communities of color) into today.

Racism, xenophobia, and one man’s all-consuming hatred of jazz kicked off the criminalization of cannabis; America’s illegal, “essential” plant.

The effects of cannabis are very personalized and varied from one person to another, including an individual’s minimum effective dose.

This is why cannabis-savvy physicians recommend that consumers should use a process of self-titration: optimizing your own individualized regimen.

Joel Matthew Fischer, a guiding force behind East Fork Cultivars, passed away three weeks ago on January 8, 2021.

As our Ambassador of Happiness and one of East Fork’s ownership team of four, he was as much our brother as our biological brothers. He is deeply missed.

In 2020, East Fork launched a commercial-scale tissue culture offering for our hemp genetics through our partnership with Vibrant Hemp Cultures. In the wrap up to the 2020 harvest, feedback from farmers has been outstanding.

Becky Garrison writes a guest blog on the challenges in ethical cannabis journalism. Becky Garrison's recent writing credits include work for Spirituality & Health, American Atheist Magazine, The Humanist, Beverage Master, Grapevine, Fresh Toast, Religion Dispatches, Killing the Buddha, and the now defunct Wittenburg Door.

The "peppery / musky / funky" smell of caryophyllene isn't far away from “smoky” in the olfactory universe

As we’ve begun to receive the test results for this year's harvest, a trend is apparent: a prevalence of the terpene beta-caryophyllene.

Every single cultivar that we've tested to date shows caryophyllene in its top three terpenes.

The purity and safety of East Fork’s flower is of utmost importance to us. After surviving the widespread wildfires in our region and bringing in our 2020 harvest, we undertook additional testing on our flower to determine whether the smoke and ash had created any potential health hazards.