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The shuttle ride to the Brinkerhoff Family Farm in Parachute, CO, transports us through tree-lined canyons where foliage graduated from vibrant greens to burnished amber, alongside shallow rivers revealing streambeds painted in blue and purple hues\u2014a living testament to Colorful Colorado.<\/p>\n
The scenery feels important when thinking about how Edun<\/a> is different from most of the state\u2019s other cannabis grows. What you see in their cultivation\u2014grass, pepper plants, decomposing leaves, roly poly husks and even ducks\u2014is built from the very land I happen to be riding through. And the wildness and authenticity of their process is present in dancing leaves, hearty stems, crystallized flowers with neon hues and zero visible stress. In a Colorado<\/a> market littered with shuttered dispensaries and questionable operations, Edun is showing up with a prohibition-era cultivation method that most commercial growers abandoned years ago.<\/p>\n Before entering the grow facility in the small mountain town of Parachute, situated on the Western Slope of the Rocky Mountains approximately 40 miles east of Grand Junction and 200 miles west of Denver, Edun Founder James (Jimmy) Brinkerhoff highlights the wild grasses shimmering with morning dew around the nondescript buildings. \u201cWe\u2019re starting a new garden over here where we\u2019re growing rhubarb, which will make fermented plant juice that we feed to our plants every week in a blended tea,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t your standard coco-coir-and-bottled-nutrients operation. Edun is a no-till regenerative farm utilizing Korean Natural Farming (KNF), an organic cultivation method that relies on natural inputs and biological functions to create a healthy biome. The approach includes Fermented Plant Juice (FPJ), a fertilizing system common during cannabis prohibition because it was completely untraceable, renewable and provided excellent nutrients and disease resistance. The same fermentation process is used to make kimchi.<\/p>\n At its core, KNF is beneficial because it allows plants to grow and thrive as if in nature. Plants develop better resilience to pests and disease because the habitat is influenced by the same mechanisms as a wild outdoor garden. The soil is rich, nutrient heavy and sustained through processes requiring little intervention. Consequently, no pesticides, fungicides or chemicals are used at Edun.<\/p>\n Brinkerhoff describes the gathering of Indigenous Microorganism (IMO) as he points to the surrounding valley. \u201cWe go up a couple thousand feet with these boxes filled with rice and holes in them,\u201d he says. \u201cWe put them out for two or three days. The microbes go inside and start multiplying in the rice.\u201d These collected microorganisms are then combined with FPJ and other ingredients in a brew room before being distributed to the facility\u2019s four cultivation rooms, where the real evidence of this system lives.<\/p>\n Walking through the doors, the first thing you notice is what\u2019s\u00a0missing<\/em>: no coveralls, no shoe slips, no masks. The air isn\u2019t stale or sterile; instead, it\u2019s light, playful, fragrant. In the mother plant room, the cultivation beds tell a whole story. The first few rows show beds outlined with sturdy wood panels, filled with dirt, leftover roots from previous harvests and grass. Moving toward the back rows with active mother plants, there\u2019s even more: dead leaves, peppers, basil, eggplant, aloe, random organic debris\u2014a whole forest floor ecosystem.<\/p>\n \u201cPeppers are for fun,\u201d Brinkerhoff says. \u201cBasil for my house and some eggplant. The aloe we use for FPJ, we make fermented plant juice out of it. It also can tell you if you have too much or too little water.\u201d He then details how to keep a natural farm thriving: \u201cMoisture is the hardest thing,\u201d he says. \u201cTemperature is easier because you can feel it and it\u2019s one room. Moisture, you have to check every bed.\u201d<\/p>\n While Brinkerhoff provides high-level philosophy, his partner in business and life, Michelle Brinkerhoff, breaks down the technical architecture. Down on one knee, leaning over the wood paneling, she indicates different layers: \u201cOur concept is to follow Mother Nature\u2019s recipe. Mother Earth is like a rock in the middle and then she goes sand, silt, clay, compost.\u201d Michelle dives further into how they\u2019re sourcing locally and sustainably. There\u2019s Colorado River Rock, she says, and the dirt in the beds is six years old and has never been turned over. Michelle credits the natural processes blended with science as the basis for the dirt being so easy to maintain and manage.<\/p>\n The entire building is extremely clean but also very messy, in a natural way.\u00a0It\u2019s a complex system of controlled chaos. There\u2019s even a family of ducks that wander from room to room and contribute to the ecosystem providing pest and weed control, along with fertilizer, of course. The plants in these rooms exude pungent sweet odors and the leaves wave excitedly as you pass, left alone to bask in the day\u2019s sun and live a full life. While this cultivation provides a vivacious, healthy ecosystem, Edun is not<\/em> a flower company; rather, they focus solely on extracts and ancillary products that are dominating the market right now.<\/p>\n The exuberance of these plants isn\u2019t just show and tell. While the bud from Edun\u2019s garden isn\u2019t polished and sculpted like many consumers have become accustomed to, there are real results from the KNF practice. Brinkerhoff describes some of the challenges with cannabis. \u201cOur THC might be 22-24 percent, and people are like, we want 30 percent,\u201d he says. \u201cThey don\u2019t realize we have really high terpenes. And that\u2019s what it\u2019s all about, that whole mixture of all the terps together.\u201d He says his plants are regularly testing at 4.5-5 percent on terpenes, which is well above industry standards. With high terpenes comes a higher quality and quantity of extracts\u2014a key factor behind Edun\u2019s live rosin-focused product line.<\/p>\n Harvest time brings blissful smells full of heady wafts. But those wafts are volatile compounds exploding at that very moment and they must be cut, shucked and frozen within a very small window of 25-30 minutes. The Edun extraction team operates in 40\u00b0F rooms during the washing and pressing of the product as an additional protocol to preserve as many terpenes as possible. The modern extraction blended with the natural garden is creating some of the more consistent and reliable extracts on the market today.<\/p>\n Just down the road from Edun is a Tumbleweed Dispensary, a mountain chain that opened in 2016. With an eviction notice on its door, now it\u2019s just another casualty in Colorado\u2019s cannabis market graveyard. This is the context in which Edun operates. While legacy operations get locked out of their own buildings, the Brinkerhoffs are building something fundamentally different. Their original vision was to house independent growers and train them in KNF methodology. \u201cWhen we started, I was going to build these buildings and lease them to cultivators, different ones around Colorado,\u201d Brinkerhoff says. They wanted to teach young growers the benefits of using the KNF method and how it\u2019s symbiotic with the natural surroundings.<\/p>\n When the market started dropping, Brinkerhoff saw no choice and became his own tenant, he says. But in a race-to-bottom market where operators are cutting every corner to survive, Edun is now building soil\u2014literally and figuratively\u2014that\u2019ll outlast the current industry shake-out. Their method isn\u2019t just about growing cannabis differently; it\u2019s about creating a regenerative system that improves over time rather than depleting resources.<\/p>\n Edun\u2019s chaotic forest floors and companion-planted beds blended with science and data represent something rare going into 2026 Colorado cannabis: actual modernization rooted in cannabis prohibition wisdom.<\/p>\n Even on a chilly morning, when my nose isn\u2019t operating at full capacity, I could pull a gram of Edun\u2019s rosin from the fridge and still get a strong whiff of the terpenes. While most of Edun\u2019s product line is focused on extracts, they do carry 0.5g live rosin infused dog walker joints in 2 and 5 packs.<\/p>\n The All-In-One (AIO) vape is discreet, dialed in for easy use and provides a clean smoke throughout its entire life.<\/p>\n Significantly larger in size than the AIO, these vapes offer a wider variety for a more personalized experience.<\/p>\n This story was originally published in issue 52 of the\u00a0print edition<\/a>\u00a0of Cannabis Now.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Edun: Bringing Craft Back To Cannabis<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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