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    Feminist Weed Farmer: Growing Mindful Medicine in Your Own Backyard
    Feminist Weed Farmer: Growing Mindful Medicine in Your Own Backyard
    Feminist Weed Farmer: Growing Mindful Medicine in Your Own Backyard
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    Feminist Weed Farmer: Growing Mindful Medicine in Your Own Backyard

    By Madrone Stewart

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    Weed is a powerful medicine, and growing your own is as empowering as it gets. Experienced Humboldt farmer Madrone Stewart, shares her hard-won knowledge gained from years of growing cannabis, Zen meditation, and surviving as a woman in a male-dominated industry. She walks you through the big picture and details of growing six backyard plants, from selecting seeds to harvesting and processing. Humorous, sage, and with a big heart, each chapter is infused with what she's learned about equalizing the weed industry, applying mindfulness to pest management, and the importance of owning each step of the process. If you've ever wanted to grow your own pot or make hash or kief at home, this book is your wise guide.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMicrocosm Publishing
    Release dateSep 11, 2018
    ISBN9781621064985
    Feminist Weed Farmer: Growing Mindful Medicine in Your Own Backyard
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    Madrone Stewart

    Madrone Stewart is a writer, community counselor, and owner of Purple Kite Farms. She lives on her sailboat in Oakland, CA.

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      Feminist Weed Farmer - Madrone Stewart

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      Microcosm Publishing

      Portland, OR

      Feminist Weed Farmer

      Growing Mindful Medicine in Your Own Backyard

      Part of the DIY Series

      © Madrone Stewart, 2018

      This edition © Microcosm Publishing, 2018

      First Edition, 3,000 copies, First published Sept 11, 2018

      eBook ISBN 978-1-62106-498-5

      This is Microcosm #212

      Cover by Cecilia Granata

      Book design by Joe Biel

      Distributed by PGW and Turnaround in Europe

      For a catalog, write or visit:

      Microcosm Publishing

      2752 N Williams Ave.

      Portland, OR 97227

      (503)799-2698

      MicrocosmPublishing.com

      Microcosm Publishing is Portland’s most diversified publishing house and distributor with a focus on the colorful, authentic, and empowering. Our books and zines have put your power in your hands since 1996, equipping readers to make positive changes in your life and in the world around you. Microcosm emphasizes skill-building, showing hidden histories, and fostering creativity through challenging conventional publishing wisdom. What was once a distro and record label was started by Joe Biel in his bedroom and has become among the oldest independent publishing houses in Portland, OR. In a world that has inched to the right for 80 years, we are carving out a place in the center with DIY skills, food, bicycling, gender, self-care, and social justice.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      PART ONE: The Plant Life Cycle

      PART TWO: Creating a Good Growing Environent

      PART THREE: Protecting Your Plants

      PART FOUR: Harvesting Your Medicine

      PART FIVE: Hash Making

      CONCLUSION

      Introduction

      Cannabis is a catalyst of the imagination.

      – Terrence McKenna

      Cannabis is a powerful plant medicine that can be used to cultivate personal, cultural, and social transformation. Being stoned shifts your perspective; it expands your consciousness and helps us to see, with more clarity, who we are and the cultures in which our lives are embedded. It can also inspire creativity and the process of visioning, which are at the heart of any deep transformation. For women, this experience of expanded consciousness, insight, and stimulated creativity can be profoundly feminist. This altered state of consciousness can also help us to see oppressive cultural practices more clearly, as well as the process of challenging those practices. Perhaps most importantly, cannabis can help women develop a vision for ourselves and our societies beyond these unjust practices.

      I believe that in order to consume cannabis with integrity, we must derive our plant medicine from ethically responsible sources. The current cannabis market, which is a blend of black market dealers and corporate controlled dispensaries, is completely market-driven and is not in line with feminist, environmentalist, or social justice values. Unfortunately, there is no reliable way for consumers to know where and how your medicine was produced, whether you buy it from a dispensary or a friend. Your medicine could have been grown in a warehouse and coated in pesticides sprayed by someone who is paid $10/hr, or it might have been organic, grown under the sun by a commune of radical, queer folks of color. However, because of the nature of the industry, there is no way for you to know anything about how your cannabis was produced. Therefore, I want to encourage all consumers—especially women, queer folks, and people of color who are so excluded from the cannabis industry—to consider growing your own plant medicine in line with your principles.

      At its greatest, I believe that a feminist experience is when a woman becomes entirely the person that she needs to be. Cannabis, DMT, mushrooms, ayahuasca, and LSD, among other entheogenic plants and compounds, can help us to illuminate these invisible prisons that society has created for us, which prevent us from thriving. I believe that growing and getting high on cannabis and other psychedelics can help to wake us up to who we are, how society is actively constraining our dreams, and they can help us illuminate pathways to liberation and self-actualization.

      The source of great cognitive dissonance for many cannabis consumers is that this transformative medicine is often produced and sold by sources that are highly mysterious at best and explicitly unethical at worst. The majority of the contemporary U.S. cannabis industry does not embody the principles and values of feminism, environmentalism, and/or social justice. The industry is completely market-driven and overwhelmingly dominated by capitalist, straight, white, cis men. I love my straight white brothers, but I do not think it is fair that they have come to control this industry, especially because of the disproportionate incarceration of black and brown people for cultivating and selling pot throughout the span of the war on drugs. This is also especially infuriating because mothers have been penalized by both the criminal justice system and child protective services for cultivating and selling weed. In essence, they have received greater penalty for the same crimes. What a shameful reality, where the same people who have been disproportionately policed and penalized for cultivating cannabis have been left out of the industry now that it is legal and extremely lucrative. Some activists are organizing to make the industry more inclusive, which is an exciting development. However, in addition to the lack of diversity, legally sanctioned corporate cannabis factories are increasingly replacing mom and pop farms and pot shops, and thus the centralization of wealth and power within the industry is rapidly increasing.

      Because of the increasingly grim and ethically abhorrent nature of the cannabis industry, I believe that all people should consider growing their own plant medicine. We desperately need to decentralize and diversify who is growing one of the most important medicines available to humanity. We cannot end up with a small handful of corporations growing our weed indoors, using extremely energy-intensive cultivation methods, and coating them with toxic chemicals. I especially believe that women, queer folks, and folks of color should grow our own psychedelic medicine because of how radically excluded we are from the emerging cannabis industry. I deeply believe that we need to empower ourselves with the skills and knowledge to grow the plants that help us to develop the wisdom that we need to liberate ourselves and our communities. We must stop supporting industries that are excluding our participation and are working against our values. This includes the emerging cannabis industry.

      I believe that you, dear reader, can grow the dankest [Note: Dank in this context means really high quality], stickiest, tastiest, loudest[Note: People use the word loud to describe the degree of smell. If your flowers are loud, they have a strong smell. If they are quiet, they do not have much of a smell. Most people prefer weed with a really strong smell. This might be because the terpenes create an entourage effect, which makes the THC more therapeutically viable, i.e. the weed can actually get you higher. The entourage effect is the synergistic relationship between THC, CBD, and plant terpenes, including myrcene, limonene, and pinene.], highest-vibration cannabis on the planet. I believe that, together with the support of your friends and family, you can free yourself from the stranglehold of dispensaries by growing your own beautiful pot plants. I want to breathe life into your dream. I believe that you were born to take the power in your heart, mind, skin, and bones and use it to make great art, build beautiful relationships, and grow amazing plants. I want weed, kale, tomatoes, sunflowers, and echinacea cultivated in every backyard, terrace, and rooftop. I would love for the corporate controlled cannabis farms to fail, and I would love to see women and gender-queer cultivators put them out of business. This will only happen if we all roll up our sleeves and sow our own seeds of insight, freedom, beauty, and dignity. I believe that psychological freedom goes hand in hand with economic freedom from corporations. This includes corporate controlled dispensaries, which are proliferating throughout states where cannabis is now legally grown and sold. The only way to economically free yourself from corporate cannabis is by growing your own or helping a friend.

      In the guide that follows, I provide very simple instructions for growing organic, sun-grown cannabis. In addition, I generously dole out my biased beliefs from cover to cover. In addition to believing that consuming psychoactive plants can be a mentally liberating and empowering feminist experience and practice, I also believe that you should grow your cannabis with love and respect for the earth. This means growing without lights, without synthetic fertilizers or synthetic pesticides. I believe that you should pay close attention to your water usage and your use of supplies, especially those made out of plastic. I believe that as you learn how to grow, you should empower others—especially other women, queer folks, and folks of color—to grow their own as well.

      If you follow these pages closely, you will have more than enough information to grow your own weed. However, I will warn you that once you start growing, it is tough to stop. Not only is it fun—at the end of the year you end up with lots of delicious weed that you can share with friends! There are also new ideas and experiments that you will want to try year after year.

      This is a book written for beginners. It will provide you with a very simple method of growing that will get you through season one and perhaps season two. Once you have a few seasons under your belt, you will want to start adding your own spice to your grow, whether that means learning how to make your own compost, how to grow your own plant-based fertilizers, or how to light dep your plants. Trust me, I want for you to learn all about permaculture and Korean natural farming, but not in your

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