A High Times veteran’s no-till living soil urban farming journey begins on a rooftop in New York City.
This article originally appeared in High Times Magazine’s 50th Anniversary Print Issue. Order yours here and get it delivered to your door.
Golden Jubilee
What an honor to contribute to the 50th anniversary issue of the oldest brand in cannabis! I worked almost twenty years as the senior cultivation editor of High Times and I suspect that I got my job in the spring of 2002 in no small part due to the high-quality cannabis I’d bring to the office and share at HT Bonghitter softball games.
I’d been growing for nearly a decade at that point and tried every which complicated way to make it happen – building custom hydroponics systems, growing in expanded clay pellets or rockwool, and even experimenting with aeroponics in which roots just dangle in a mist of nutrient solution – until one of my mentorsm Kyle Kushman, convinced me to convert to growing organically in soil.
After a while, between traveling to Cannabis Cups or working on assignments, visiting gardens large and small around the world, I wasn’t able to grow my own anymore. You simply can’t leave your plants behind for days at a time every month and expect to succeed as a farmer. Without enough time and energy to devote to a thriving garden, I put my personal growth aside and focused on sharing the information I learned from experts about cultivation and cultivars with the readers.
Along the way, I wrote many growing and strain-related articles, authored a couple of popular weed books, created the HT Seed Bank Hall of Fame and started a podcast called Free Weed. Then along came the pandemic and High Times and I parted ways. …
Read More
Author: Danny Danko / High Times
