Going Green: Pot Growers' Worries About Pesticide Use Bloom
Josh Khankhanian stuck his nose deep into a jar of dense, multicolored marijuana flowers on Saturday and cracked a broad smile. The pot was pungent, and this grower from Mendocino County, California, can consider himself a connoisseur after three years on the job. But what was especially pleasing about this particular sniff is that it was of flower grown on a southern Oregon farm owned by Elizabeth and Nick Luca-Mahmood that could hardly be more sustainable, its plants raised on a nearly closed-loop farming method that battles pests and disease not with insecticides and herbicides but diversity—specifically, diversity in poop.
“There are a lot of cannabis growers still using old procedures,” Khankhanian told Newsweek. “This is better.”
Khankhanian was among hundreds who attended an inaugural “Cultivation Classic” in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday to learn more about a practice that isn’t nearly as widespread as it should be: sustainably grown marijuana. While there’s...
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