Need to Know: Sun+Earth Certification
Andrew Black, executive director of Sun+Earth Certified for cannabis and hemp farms, discusses the group’s background, its extensive requirements for farms and more.
Since Sun+Earth was founded in April 2019, we have been generating news and commentary about regenerative organic agriculture in an effort to build a movement of cannabis grown under the sun, in the soil of Mother Earth without chemicals, by fairly paid farmers and farm workers. Explore our extensive Sun+Earth media coverage below.
Cannabis Activists Point to Outdoor Farming To Combat Climate Change
"As cannabis emerges from illicit to the legal market, there is an opportunity to embrace ecologically responsible ways of doing it," said Andrew Black, executive director of Sun+Earth, a nonprofit...
5 Important Questions: Botanist, Mother, Farmer, Katie Jeane/Emerald Spirit Botanicals
We're also a Sun+Earth Certified farm, which means we only grow cannabis under the sun and in the ground, sustainably and regeneratively, without chemicals or other unnatural inputs.
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Sun+Earth certification is a third-party validation of that standard. "The whole idea was to create a high bar for social and environmental standards, and to address multiple issues with a single...
Dr. Bronner’s Soaps Wants to Protect You From COVID—and Legalize Your Right to Magic Mushrooms
Launched on Earth Day last year, April 22, Brother David’s is an entity separate from the organic soap empire founded by David’s grandfather in 1948 and is a means to...
How East Fork Cultivars became a cannabis leader by taking the road less stoned
East Fork is already out front with a certified organic hemp CBD oil, but Sun+Earth goes further, bringing in regenerative cultivation practices and including worker and community-involvement standards. The program...
Regenerative Cannabis Farming – The Solution Right Under Our Feet
"Brother David's donates its profits to fund the Sun+Earth non-profit and subsidize certification costs for small cannabis farms using regenerative farming processes. Since certification can cost upward of $4000 for...
Earth Day and always: Use planet-friendly cannabis
Indoor cannabis production uses the same amount of energy it takes to power 1.7 million US homes, and generates greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 3 million cars. According to the...
Guest View: How is your cannabis grown?
Sun+Earth has approved 32 cannabis businesses in five states since we launched on Earth Day 2019. In Oregon, we recently certified the first five cannabis businesses — East Fork Cultivars,...
Five Richly Textured Questions For Tina Gordon: Founder-Moon Made Farms
Tina Gordon is the founder and owner of Moon Made Farms, a small Emerald Triangle cannabis farm in Southern Humboldt County. Today, Tina thrives as an active cannabis farmer and...
Dr. Bronner's-backed cannabis certification comes to Oregon
Sun+Earth says it's a "beyond organic" cannabis certification program. It starts with customary limitations on the use of chemicals, but also brings in regenerative cultivation practices such as composting, cover...
4 quality-centric seals that will help retailers sell hemp CBD
Perhaps the latest certification to enter the market is the Sun+Earth seal. That certifies cannabis is grown under the sun, in soil, without chemicals, by fairly paid farmers. The seal...
Sun+Earth Certification promotes ethical cannabis
Sun+Earth might be the most rigorous and prestigious certification process available to a cannabis or hemp farmer. The collaborative effort of many technical advisors, farmers, regulation and policy experts, and...
Why Regenerative Farming is the Future of Cannabis Cultivation
Tina Gordon's 9,600 square foot outdoor canopy spanning 40 acres has achieved Sun + Earth certification, a third party vetting process that ensures growers are living up to regenerative farming...
East Fork Cultivars Sets Itself Apart From the Oregon Marketplace
The East Fork farm has been Clean Green Certified since 2016, but the team is working to add a new, more robust cannabis certification, Sun+Earth, created by a nonprofit offshoot...
Sun+Earth Certified Issues Regenerative Organic Farming, Fair Labor Standards For Cannabis Cultivation
Sun+Earth launched earlier this year and has already certified 14 outdoor cannabis farms in California. Sun+Earth Certified cannabis is sold at more than 30 dispensaries across California. With its sights...
California Working Toward Certifying "Almost Organic" Cannabis
Sun+Earth is a cannabis nonprofit that aims to go "above and beyond" even USDA organic requirements in promoting environmental sustainability. This includes requiring farmers to "[build] soil quality through mulching,...
Q&A: David Bronner's New Certification System Aimed at California's Small Farmers Goes Beyond Organics
The Sun+Earth certification not only requires cannabis farms to grow their crop outdoors using sustainable and regenerative practices, such as crop rotation and organic farm inputs, but to also treat...
How to Grow Sustainable Cannabis? Look to Beer, Wine, and Rice Industries
Since cannabis remains federally illegal, cannabis farms aren’t able to apply for national organic certifications or exemptions. So there is a growing push to empower small-scale, organic, sun grown cannabis...
As legal cannabis spreads, growers go organic — and beyond
Appearing on the scene just this year, and garnering attention because of its affiliation with the natural-soap company Dr. Bronner's, is an all-new, cannabis-specific program called Sun+Earth Certified.
Why Sun+Earth and Brother David's are So Vital for Organic Stakeholders and Our Planet
Sun+Earth and Brother David's will be a complete game-changer and the most conscious initiative the cannabis industry has ever seen.
Marijuana With a Mission: Brother David's Quest to Turn the Cannabis Industry Truly Green and Good
Because marijuana remains illegal under federal law, pot farmers who wish to demonstrate their commitment to sustainable, environmentally-sound organic agriculture practices cannot avail themselves of the label "organic," which is...