Mountain Grown Vermont

08/21/2026

Love this farm.

08/21/2026

08/17/2026

I bought a $60 eight of what the bud-tender in the in an Alaska dispensary called the best w**d they had. Deli style 29% Cherry Gelato. $60 eighths with premature seeds and animal hair. AK got to do better than that. Very disappointed.

Seeds mean the flower wasn’t properly sorted or the source material had pollination issues, which shouldn’t happen if it’s genuinely top-shelf.

Bad QC like that is exactly the kind of gap a well-run operation could compete on.
Mountain Grown Alaska

08/15/2026

Five corners of the world look up
at peaks that never learn to hurry,
Valdez to Humboldt, stone to snow,
each one keeping its own glory.

There is no schedule on the ridge,
no minute hand to chase or mind.
Only the slow and steady climb,
the kind that leaves the rushing world behind.

So light the clocks upon the wall,
let each one mark a different place,
but know that only one time matters here.
It’s always, only, mountain time.

08/09/2026

“From frozen glacier to blooming wildflowers in just twenty four hours. Nature’s reminder that transformation is always happening, even when we’re not watching. Grateful for moments like this Mountain-grown

08/02/2026

True legacy.

Why water is not a solvent during the ice-water sieving process:

"Cannabis glandular trichomes are classified as having a subcuticular type of storage cavity, as the cavity forms via the separation of a cell wall layer directly below the cuticle, which increases in surface area and distends dramatically with metabolite accumulation in the apoplast (Tissier et al. 2017).

In contrast to the hydrophilic primary cell wall, plant cuticles are lipidic. The cuticle consists of cutin, which is made of hydroxylated fatty acids covalently bound via polyester bonds, and hydrophobic waxes (Yeats and Rose 2013). This nonpolar layer forms the interface between the aerial epidermal cell wall and the external environment, functioning to reduce non-stomatal water loss and to protect the plant from UV light.” Cannabis Glandular Trichome Cell Walls Undergo Remodeling to Store Specialized Metabolites, Plant and Cell Physiology, Volume 62, Issue 12, December 2021, Pages 1944–1962, https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcab127

Definitions:
1. hydrophilic = water-loving, water-loving" or having a strong attraction to water, allowing a substance to easily mix with, dissolve in, or absorb water. Common examples include sugar, salt, and soap.
2. lipidic = means of, relating to, or being a lipid (a fat, oil, wax, or related fat-like organic compound that does not dissolve in water).
3. cutin = A natural polymer made of linked fatty acids. It is a tough, waxy, waterproof substance found on the outer skin of plant leaves and stems.
4. nonpolar = a molecule or bond has an even, balanced sharing of electrical charges. There are no positive or negative ends (or poles) on the molecule.
5. aerial = In this scientific context, "aerial" means the parts of a plant that grow above the ground and are exposed directly to the open air.
6. non-stomatal water loss = Without the nonpolar waxy layer, water would constantly leak out of every single surface cell into the dry air. The waxy cuticle acts like a sealed plastic wrap, forcing the plant to only lose water through its stomata, which it can control.

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07/29/2026

Gorilla Sherb outdoor sungrown rocks in Vermont.

07/23/2026

Chill spot

07/19/2026

Brewing Life, One Bubble at a Time - Liquid Gold from worm castings, Eric Paris’s organic compost,  leaf, mold, soil, molasses and a  splash of the sea.
JADAM