Yo, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to a new episode of My
Canniccass. I'm Canada Dave. Yeah, I'm grooving. On today's episode,
we have special guests. We have a team from Coal of Farms joining us.
Thank you guys and gals for joining us. Yeah, thanks so much
for having us guys. Yeah, so excited to have you on because,
like we've seen, we saw y'all, you guys placed last year in the
High Times Cup and I see it on the packaging now, but I remember
that was the first time I ever heard of y'all. So really cool to
have you on the podcast now. Yeah, I'm excited to learn about the
brand and what each and you guys do for Coal of Farms. So,
Kaylee, do you want to kick it off what you do with Cola and
what got you into cannabis. Yeah, absolutely, guys. UM, well,
my name is Kaylee. I kind of do a marketing UM and brand
management thing here at Cola, So I'm the one behind the social media if
you follow us at Coal of Farms at the Coal of Farms UM and then
with me, I have Marquise who's the general manager of our processing center UM
and Mateo who's a lab manager. Um, so, yeah, we're really
excited to be here and probably all here for kind of the same reason.
We love cannabis and that's why we work for this company and we want to
share it with everybody. Oh yeah, hell are yeah yeah what about what
about y'all? So I'm the one of the lab directors at Coal of Farms.
On a day to day basis, I'm often, you know, creating
hydrocarbon extracts and helping clear up, distolate, doing whatever whatever they really need
me to do. Yeah, this d remo g as you then, huh
the one we tried to Yeah, yeah, yeah, hell yeah, yeah.
You guys like it? Yeah? I was digging it, man,
and I like the packaging a lot that you guys, well, we'll get
into that in a second. But I definitely like that you have terpeens on
there, and I appreciate that it smells and taste the same. But oh
my god, turps on that were incredible. Yeah, very good. Yeah,
I think so. I think that was the turpane retention was like close
to eleven percent. He gave us the CoA so yeah, you know,
so we got those. I love it because it's got the turpeens on it.
Yeah awesome, we appreciate that. Yeah absolutely, Oh yeah, um
yeah uh we got me in a cannabis I was back in Oregon twenty eighteen.
How to you know, opportunity to join the cannabis company out there?
Rout with the company was the gym, A buddy's brand out west. Um,
pretty big brand on the West coast through California, Oregon, Washington.
Um cool. So how an opportunity came out here and met with coal of
farms before the lab was constructed, when it was just a farm part of
it. Um likes what I've seen and one of the different changes, scener
yourself come out here and help grow this one. Hell yeah, I love
it. So you've had you've had some experience and industry them for a while.
Then from the West coast all the way to Hear. Pretty cool to
see the probably the bud and the concentrates out there and now the Michigan market.
Yeah definitely. And I got the big thing I know as being in
up north farm, I just I thought was really cool. Is y'all do
outdoor growing? So I just I really want that's really cool to me,
because like it's not everyone does that downstair, you know, not as much
space. So I thought that was really cool. Um, was there a
reason for coal of farms like starting like orwi? You know what was the
mission stated behind that? Yeah? So our our owner has been, you
know, a big advocator from back from the caregiver days. He's been in
been in a strong definitely out of kating for the cannabis here in Michigan.
Um. And when everything went you know, legal, it was, hey,
where's the pivot point? You know? Um, so we pivoted into
a company and yeah we're here now. So hell yeah, so we imagine
y'all smoke. Do y'all smoke? But what's your favorite ways to in Jess
Canvas? Gotta ask ask everybody? Our smoke flower every day. I dab
every day. Um. Edibles not really my my swing, but that's just
because I don't get that same high off of edibles, you know, but
I feel it do Um. I'm an old school doobie girl. Nice.
Um, No, I do like smoking joints. I just like something about
rolling a joint, smoking a joint and um, just love flower really,
but I'll dabble. I'll dabble in the dab um and how about you,
matail U. I'll try I do everything on a day to day basis.
I eat a lot of edibles to start my day. To start it.
Do you have a concentrate you know? I smoke my flowers throughout the day.
Um yeah, a lot of My favorite, like, my favorite way
to smoke concentrates is a puff go I have both puffco peaks and they're phenomenal.
Yoh yeah, it's handy for me, is in a better way.
I'm just I'm so addicted to the temperature being right every time, you know,
especially not having to heat up like the titanium emails and stuff. So
and I'm about damner so dab's like my preferred way methods always consistent. Love
it, dude, I feel you. And yeah, honestly, yeah,
and you guys do a little bit of everything. I want to start jumping
into products, but I feel like I might be jumping ahead a little bit
because I'm excited. M cola houll you guys been operating us, you guys
branding the products. They I'll pull up some of the stuff. Why that
you did show us some of it? So, um yeah, I can
speak a little on that. Um been basically operating for just under two years.
Really, UM, we have a cultivation facility. Uh. We call
it the farm um. And that's kind of where Cola started. UM.
And if the owner were here today, he would say that's what it was
about growing, you know. UM. And so then move a little bit
down the line, and as Marquis said, it was um, you know,
time to build up the processing center. And so that's where you know,
we specialize in those concentrates, both um, you know rosin and live
resin. UM. And I would just probably say that, UM, you
know, I describe my job as we're a small company. We're all family
here, like as as as hard as it is to go to a job,
and like everyone you know, UM, I feel like that's kind of
how it is here, just because there's a little shy about forty of us,
you know, and we just all really care about what we're doing honestly.
So yeah, it looks like, I mean forty of you, you're
doing a lot of things. I mean you grow definitely starts, but I
mean we're showing your products right now. You've got the edibles, we've got
some pre roles, we've got live rosin, we got resin and then this
crystalline heart, which is pretty unique to you. I don't know if I've
seen that much everywhere, But like you want to talk a little bit about
some of these products. I mean, I just why I'm showcasing some of
them. I just want to like show some love because Dave's showing them and
like the consistency looks great on them. So definitely, I mean, so
as far as our solvent list goes, that's really where we came into the
market. That's what launched us into the concentrate part. We started with solving
lists. We grow great quality outdoor flower. We could think about outdoors,
You're gaining a lot more turpines than you went indoor. You're getting that natural
sunlight, sorotation is going to be a little bit higher. I know outdoor
has a bad stigma to it, but turping wise, you get a better
attention on your turpens coming from an outdoor plant than you will an indoor So
just curious, I mean, not to sidetrack, but you said bad outdoor
has a little bit of a bad note. Why why would you say that.
I'm just curious, because, like I mean, to me, I
definitely see like less controlled environment. But at the end of the day,
like that's how it started, you know, so you feel like there is
I could hear you on some advantages too, you know, form different states
to stay. You know, outdoor gets a bad stigma. Everyone's like the
indoor premium shot shelf flower, um, and that's not really what you make
the best concentrates out of them, So people look at it as, you
know, a lower tiered concentrate because it's from an outdoor plant, and it's
kind of the opposite. I yeah, no idea. How big is the
farm? How many plants are? It's so for example, UM, I
think what did I say last were we grew seventy different strains at the farm?
We've got essentially, um, one hundred and fifty acre farm, but
um, we only utilize about fifteen or so of those acres to actually grow.
We leave a lot of the rest to do what it will. Um.
And how many plants have we I don't know the exact number either,
but about seventy different strains with a couple of rows of yeah, no,
no, no, yeah, absolutely, I can imagine a lot of plants.
Yeah, I know they've probably got the massive and pretty yeah, we
love to know actually, and I guess said told him. I was like,
my family's not too far from there, Like we have some family up
there. We could swing by. It's like an hour away, but like
I love to go up there. So you said you're up North Tawas right,
Yeah, some employees that are from the galer Day area. Oh that's
awesome. I got there right before. Okay, okay, yeah, See
it's all really close up there, you know, Like I mean it's like
one road you turn left once or right, you know. I mean there
was a lot there's not as much turning and stuff down as there is down
here. But I mean, Cola why why why would they name Cola Farms?
Is it? Just like I mean, I don't want to assume.
So, um, I can talk a little bit about this too. Um.
You know a cola um. You know also that you know top bud
of a of a plant um. That's I mean, where the name really
came from. Um. And you know, just to accentuate on how important
that bud is. You know, it's like sucking everything from all the other
ones. I got. That's cool, that's cool. It's like pulls it
to the top. It's the top one, the top bud, I got
you. That's clever, Like, I mean, I knew what a cola
was, but I was like why why? I mean like why specifically,
like what is your like behind thoughts? So that's cool. I like that,
I did that. I do that. It's pretty smooth. That makes
sense, you guys. Um we got the edible showcasing right here, and
you guys placed, if I'm not mistaken, first place with the Strawberry Edible
lection the High Times Cup correct. Um. Yeah, Marquis can talk a
little bit about that. Yeah, so very proud of that point. We
entered again this year obviously. Oh yeah, yeah, well we entered our
concentrates in this year as well. The ones we gave you guys are actually
the ones that are entering in UM as far as the concentrations that you guys
got. The blockholders Doug Band cheese flavor. I like that Blockberry blocker solid.
Yeah, that black is really good. Yeah, it's a for for
the rose. And consistent is like that bad or consistent consistency that I like.
And Dave's like, we need to make a donut like immediately, but
we have to wait till we had to wait till the episode because otherwise it
be like gone. So he was like, no, put it away.
We gotta put it away. So we put it away. But yeah,
thank you for the little sort man. It looks it really looks great stuff.
I like it. I've been trying it. I tried both, so
I've been digging it. Um any I do want to say though, I
tried these edibles last night, forty of them. I was dreaming, so
that was nice, Like I don't you know, like I was. I
was actually dreaming, so that was cool. So I, like I said,
I kind of like Marquis. I'm not like a huge edible guy,
but like every once in a while, especially now at night, I've been
eating them kind of helped me knock out. So and I mean that's when
my wife does shots him at nighttime, puts her out. So yeah,
yeah, I mean it helps, you know. But I mean, so
do you just how many licenses do y'all have exactly to do all this products?
To do all this um? Do you have a shop? We yep,
we have well, we have a cultivations. We have our farm um,
and then we have a processing um and then that's our in our processing
we have a commercial kitchen. We have a high department extraction, and we
have a solved misubstraction EPACI. At least everything's done in one building, which
is really nice. Um, when you don't have as many hands trading,
you don't have lost communication. So, like Kennedy said earlier, we're very
tight and you know, I mean the teo, John and the rest of
the crew. We communicate on a daily basis of what we're doing, what
our next projects are UM and how we can strive to be better. So
that's awesome. It's awesome. I really appreciate that. Like you're always you
already said that a couple of times. I always trying to focus on the
future being better, Like so it's like, that's cool that you're so focused
on growing or pun intended, I guess I should say exactly. So yeah,
um, yeah, you want to talk about the products? Yeah,
I was gonna ask, I was gonna know, I was gonna ask about
what uh, what strains you guys are gonna be launching this year with the
upcoming UM or it's planning season now or in April we have spring here,
you guys launching the same genetics that you did this past year or you coming
out with new ones. You said you did seventy last year, so I'm
curious we did seventy last year. Um, some of those go straight towards
like dissolate. Um, so you don't really see those come out, um
honestly as strong. Uh, Disolan's great. I like smoking, It's great
for on the road summertime. I love a good pen um big and live
reson. That's really my my forte. But strains and a couple ideas of
new ones. So, um, any like favorites out there or any like
breeders genetics, you know companies you want to shout out because I mean,
I know Dave grows like a lot of exotic. I don't know if there's
any like breeders y'all like specifically you know, go to to see good different
genetics, you know. Um, we kind of us a couple of different
ones. Um, just to be honest, we got some West Coast stuff
growing here. We got some cool Michigan stuff, um, tried and true
here to Michigan. So that's really what we're looking on is not really where
the seeds come from, is what grows best in this environment. That's what
you look for a year after year, you'll grow something that you weed out
the next year. They might have been a great plant but just didn't do
what you wanted with it, So you replaced that with something else that you
know might be a risk, but it pays off, and hey, you
got another trying true. So that's awesome. I mean, just that like
rotation of just not sticking to the same thing. It means you're always looking
for the best of the best. You know, had any strange stick out
specifically that you were like that one that was that was that was that was
great? That block builder was one of them. I mean it just dumped
out resin like no other, which that's pretty crazy because not everyone, not
everyone gets a good rising pool we've heard. So. Yeah, and it's
got seven percent in term profile too on it. That's not bad too.
That's really high up. Yeah, you were saying that outdoor pulls more are
turpines, you know, that's pretty cool. I never heard that before.
It's just because of the full spectrum light. Is that like kind of thing
exactly? That's all based on the lighting. You can't replicate the sun indoors
no matter what. I mean. You can definitely replicate a spectrum, but
you're never gonna be able to achieve the power, all right, I mean
that's what the plant is like accustomed to naturally, right, you know,
so that's pretty cool. I've just never heard that before. So that's really
neat. I can tell you from um taking pictures, um that we grew
squirt last season, okay, and those were the coolest looking buds, especially
towards the end of I want to say, they had those pinks. Oh
my god, they were just gorgeously I had up. Yeah, I love
just wanted to grow one of them, like a pink pistols. Yeah,
that's crazy, that's awesome. You don't see much of the pink in the
blue, right, Like, that's really cool. Probably with the fall fall
hits up in the up with the outdoor, that those buds probably turn really
pretty like early, like oh yeah, those nice colors of the temperature drop
and stuff. Oh that's true, that's true, right, yeah, yeah,
And that makes sense. It's because it gets cold in there a little
bit cool. The farm is really close to Lake Huron, so like we
always have a little a little weather barrier being so close to the lake,
because you know, the lake always is a little bit warmer than the ground.
Huh so, so what is the Yeah, so what is what what
happens because of the lake? Uh So, like the frost will go a
little bit over like certain plants, you know, the frost will uh like
when when it starts cooling down. Uh, certain places closer to the lake
don't actually get frost, like you know in the mornings we have to scrape
off your car. Yeah, because it so close and it's a little bit
warmer ambient temperature temperature that it uh, it doesn't frost being super close to
the lake. It's kind of its kind of a good thing. It's differently
give you a slightly longer harvest than if you were somewhere else where. You're
starting to frost and you're gonna want to start harvesting you stuff. It's true
thanks to be an outdoor growth. That's huge. You know, I never
even thought about that. Wow, that's pretty cool. I'll talk. I
think you know, you just think lake effect. You think it's gonna get
colder, so right, Yeah, it's kind of yeah, that really cool.
That's Michigan. And that was when you said that Michigan first, California.
Uh seeds that kind of makes sense because the ones that are here are
the strains that are here. They might like this soil, this ground more
right, I think so fast seeds come from all over richrid some freak show.
Oh my god, if you guys look up the plant, the thing
we've seen it. Our buddy had it. That shit's crazy. We grew
it. It just didn't yield worse growing again, How long did it take
y'all? Huh? How long did it take you guys? Because it wasn't
It wasn't that freak show, like a really long grow because I thought my
friend had it for like months and it got like that. It's tall,
like it wasn't a scene. I mean maybe from the top of the pot,
maybe three and a half four foot. Yeah, it's a firm you
know. It looks like a first like a tree just growing straight up.
That's so crazy. I don't even know if my friend harvested it. I
think he got sick of it, did he? No? No, he
harvest he did, just he didn't care for it as much. Would you
all? Did you guys? Like your smoker? He did? You guys
like that? The bud development on it wasn't very good. I think a
couple of the growers tried it and they said it wasn't anything special. Yeah,
I think it just kind of because it looked the way it did,
people were like whoa. But then it's like it takes yeah exactly, like
I don't know, kind of like a cool picture, but it doesn't really
like make a good grow Yeah exactly exactly. Yeah, where can our li
steners try some of these uh concentrates edibles your flower? Where's like the best
locations to be able to pick these up? That? So, yeah,
luckily we're we're in quite a few locations all over the state, from the
up down to the que Maple donu um down to the bottom line. UM.
But I would say, you know, um, I try to shout
out uh those stores that are going to have our stuff in it on our
social media, UM, so always be checking there. Um. And there's
a map on our website too if you want to see. But I know,
um, you know, for example, down um towards you guys,
um planet fifty nine, shout out planet fifty nine. Um. You know,
yeah, a lot of locations, honestly, guys. UM, And
you said you said on your on your website there's a map where they can
just go and check it out. There is there is yep. Yeah,
let me pull up your website right now. Be perfect, perfect the first
place. Look at that right on the front page. Watching a little bit.
None. Be proud of yourself. You should be proud of yourself.
That was a big competition. There's a lot of companies. You are a
small team. There's a lot of big teams out there. Be proud of
yourself. I am not gonna have a lot of big money goes into it
too. It's and was that you guys the first time entering too. It
probably was our first year. A couple months after we watched Gummies. We
were not even a tenth of the size that we are right now. Um,
a lot of smaller already up and running fully. So yeah, we
led with with solving the lists. Gummies came next, Carts and hydrocarbon came
afterwards. Oh ye, shout out for our kitchen crew. You know who
you are. Make it good edible? That was really good. I just
tried to maple donut. Oh my guss, I love it. I can't
believe how well it tastes like a don't who came up with it? And
they who can try it, Dave. Dave called DIBs on this Sativa daous.
Oh it's so good. And that's the thing. I ate some of
your watermelons yesterday. I'm like, oh, I ate one. I got
my second one. I'm like, oh, that's only twenty milligrams. I
looked at him like, oh shit, uh so heads up, everyone,
it's a half a slice of ten milligrams. A whole one is twenty Because
I was forty deep before I even realized it, and I was like,
oh, here we go. It's gonna be sweet. That's very tasty.
But either way, the map here just hit find a store in the corner
on their website and you just type in your zip code right there. So
it's really cool. I like that. Not all websites have that. That's
huge. Yeah, is there a specific product that each of you like that
you'd recommend that be like, hey, if this is go to through to
try something. Um I'm a concentrate I would like give me one, give
me that chap mate. So we got fucks here. We've been down in
three party. Um so just hit on some of this. That's clearly what
I just called. Ay, I know, I know, I so that's
got such a funk to it. No, here you can actually put the
container. I actually have all your products pulled up in the corner right now.
You can put that bag. This is the laches we're trying. Can
you show the turpeen side of it. That's one thing I do want to
show. Because everyone watched our reviews, this is big to me. I
love your packaging. I love they have images, and I love that you
have the mounds. It helps kind of both sides with people who don't understand
turpeines. Any people who do so are listening to us. It's great.
Yeah, no, it's great. Your package is great, and we're working
on a way to get all of the Turpeenes. You guys can see the
colas we list the top three for the consumer. It's a long list of
terpeens that are actually in there. Set to list them all on that that
back panel, there's like thirteen on them'll show you the cla. Yeah,
yeah, we're pulling it up in and this is um black builder that turpines
we're looking at on the sheet right here. You see it? Yeah,
yeah, I got it all right? Cool, cool, cool. I
love that you guys very transparent with it um, It's very cool. Yeah
as a consumer. As a consumer, I like to see it because then,
uh, you're not just about the THHC percentage like high THC. You're
about showing the flavors the effects. So sorry, and I totally cut you
off. So you said you're a big dab or you'll dab everything you love.
What what about y'all? What are your other favorite products? So sorry?
I got a d h D. Sometimes I love the gummies. The
consistency and the flavoring on the gummies. I think it's spot on consistency for
sure. It's like it's not that like I don't want to seeing stuff.
Yeah, you know, it's chewable. I mean it's you know, truly
a like a gourmet gummy, I believe. I like the maple donut and
the watermelon. I haven't tried at all of them. Man, Dave won't
share the sativa one. But buts okay, Uh, you know, I
try a lot of different products on the market, and uh, I'm still
col of arms is my choice concentrates to go too like it I do.
Before this, I don't know, this is kind of a little off subject.
But the crystalline idea was that your first product in solving this that's what
you said, right, or was that just like a side idea because I
saw the shapes first. I was like a donut donut originally it was in
the form of a doughnut. We still sell the rings. Um so that
one launched with our butter and our jams and fresh press rosin um so we
launched all four of those kind of at the same time, and then we
did a urt sauce to go with the crystalline ring in the beginning, UM
kind of something to buy. If you were going to buy them together,
you would put your own chirp sauce over the crystalline ring and have the best
of both. So okay, Yeah, I think what I did was I
was just going to break it up and put it in a joint like I
did my last time I got it, just kind of smoke it like that.
You guys get a chance to try that. Um sorry if you already
said you did. Um, but that crystalline hard yet I've tried it before.
I've never tried this one. I tried it like a donut one you
guys got before, because I bought it, Like yeah, I was like
twenty bucks or like twenty five bucks. I'm like, oh, I'll try
it, you know, throw in some joints and see what's up. Yeah,
it's neat, it's different. You don't you don't see the shapes out.
You're already concentrates if you want to boost out. So if you were
to break that up and kind of put it in like your block builder,
you get an extra THHC boost from it, and it wouldn't really take this
taste of the block boots. So that's the idea, is just to make
it stronger with the THHC side. So if you like, I want this
flavor, add the crystalline. Now, I'm like, I can't move because
that's the idea, right, Yeah, I mean that's how I do it.
And again I'm a big dabber, so I feel like I've seen people
do that with like diamonds, and I've done that with diamonds and stuff.
So this crystalline is your form of like that diamonds. So what tempt do
you use? What temp would you recommend for this for the crystalline for like
a temperature dabbing wise, there's a certain temph to burn it hotter. Would
you want to burn it hotter. I usually do cooler dabs I cooler.
I mean, I'm like, honey Badger, Um, they're great. They're
an electric collector. Um great, you have a lot temp nail. It's
always the same tent, no swinging temperature, no torch. So yeah,
it's hard to go back. It's hard to go back to the torch,
right, I mean y'all y'all pretty much selling both. Y'all are like,
get It's just it's just so hard, Like I want it sometimes but I'm
like, ah, but this one, I just push it twice and it's
yeah. Yeah, Like every time I think like the ideal times, I
think like they're on like four nine, five times maybe perfect, that's right,
right, if I'm green and the puff Go you got the Pro you
said though, right, so that probably has an exact temp. Yeah,
yeah, that's sweet. That's pretty sweet. Yeah. The ranges on both
puff Go Peak and the Pro are pretty similar, I believe, but you
can cost them. And you said last year was your first time basically starting
as a team. So you guys are founded and from Michigan. Correct,
just to reiterate, you guys are from Michigan company. Are you guys.
Are you guys just we have me and one of the growers came out here
from the West coast, from Oregon to here. We're the only transplants so
oh no, I yeah, I just meant them. So you guys aren't
like an Mso you guys are Michigan Market. This is home now, that's
right? Yeah for sure? Okay, yeah, I knew that. I
just wanted to like reiterate to see if they were anywhere else though, you
know, I always try to ask to see if there are any other states,
you know. No, yeah, oh hey, it's okay. Michigan
Market's strong here, it is. It's a great market. Do you guys
have any upcoming of vending days or events that you guys can be participating in
so a consumers, Yeah, a couple of things actually, um. You
know, of course you can always check out our events calendar UM and thread
on our website, uh the coolfarm dot com slash events. UM. I
try to keep that loaded up with vendor days that our UM sales reps will
go to and hang out and they're just a blast and a hoot. Um.
I'm doing one at um Essence and pencann In Michigan. If you guys
know where. That's at Cheesetown, Um, coming up the day after four
to twenty, So that'll be fun and um. Another thing, actually,
these guys are participating in uh an event in May. It's called Discs and
Dabs. It's um a little under the radar, I'd say for the most
part, um, just because it's such a um what do you want to
say, uh, kind of secluded, um intimate event. Um, But
you can look it up. They've got a website, um, and they
do it in a few different states. So this is the mint edition.
So yeah, hopefully these guys go kick some button, have some fun disc
in and dabbing disc golf, right yeah yeah where so we'll be out there,
um, Me and Matteo, one of our growers, and another team
member, Brock or fulfillment manager, the guy who gets all the orders out
from the stores. So where is that at? Again? You know it's
taken place in a little village, ye, is okay? Funny? Yeah,
so whatever's there. I'm actually excited to see, um what these guys
see. But yeah, whatever's there that that whole thing's pretty cool though.
I was chatting with the founder of it. Um, his name's been the
other day and um, he said. What they're about, you know,
is throwing a good event and then supporting you know, charity. Their charity
a choice. It's called Wilderness on Wheels, which is pretty cool. Um.
It's basically, uh, you know, trying to make nature accessible to
everyone, you know, even with disabilities. UM. I thought that was
awesome. So yeah, we're glad to be sponsoring a little bit of that.
We're a goal sponsoring that, so just a little bit. But that's
really cool to hear your team at Cole is behind those type of events,
you know, because I mean it's definitely cool to hear the high time stuff
and compete with the market, but like those ones that's more passionate, right,
that's your we believe in this that we want to do that more too,
like a lot more so hopefully you know, we'll come from the caregiver
side sound and you know, advocacy and you guys care about the plant on
a passionate level, you know. So I really that's that shows your family
side too, you know, the both all three of you really showed your
passion from different sides of the team over there at Coal. So cool.
We do. We ask how big the team is. I think they said
forty around forty that's the total, right, that's the total team. So
so yeah, if you want to break it down, like how many people
do you have like working in your kitchen and like stuff do you can you?
I am I asking too much, Like it's curious. We're all certified
and getting the kitchen and get our hands dirty. But it's a team effort,
got um. Generally there's four people in the kitchen. My kitchen manager
Gail Big shout out of her. She makes the magic happen. Ye're hasty,
and then she's got a team of three and then you know, sometimes
if we get crazy, we'll we'll bump a couple of people in there,
help bat some gummies, help help push them alll so, but as far
as the cook team in the kitchen, it's for strong. So this year
you entered your your concentrates and your edibles and the flower or was it just
the straight edibles into the high times just the concentrates and animals things in there.
Well, I know they it's a lot of product too. Yeah,
it was a lot of products. Yeah, we heard it's crazy. A
lot of product. You have certain requirements by certain times. It has to
be a certain everything we heard and it it's you know, it's but it's
it's a big competition. You know, it's a choice. Yeah, like
you guys said earlier, I love uh. My favorite thing about that Cannabis
Cup is just like you said, like that these were brands like this small
you know, brands that you know are native to Michigan. And that's how
a bunch of people get to hear about us, you know. Um,
So I love that about that competition. Sure, there's so many bags,
so many people get their opportunities. I mean we found many We got the
High Times cup bags last year. We ended up getting a couple. Um,
we weren't able to reveal the product honestly because there was so much product
and we got too many bags, We'll be honest. But we were able
to find so many brands and new products that we like liked like we uh,
we just were recorded with old school organics. We tried his product in
the High Times coff and like that was phenomenal. We finally just were able
to connect with him. Now. Um, but like being able to like
try that private consumer, then you'll be like, oh, may we're gonna
go to disbal be able to pick it out and buy it. It's like,
I think it's it's fair, it's good for the it's good to get
your hand out there. It's like, what's sort of what Kayley said,
you know, not everyone has the access to be like I'm gonna go to
every dispo. I'm gonna go to all these things. So when you can
go to a dispo, pick up a backpack and now you've tried what thirties
different companies at once. Yeah, these type of could these events keep it?
Really? Um? They helped the consumer find the products that work for
them, you know, because otherwise, like at least for me, I
don't know about everyone. Sometimes when you're just living your life, you're like,
this is the dispensers I go to because they're conveniently on my way of
life, like right, So so sometimes that's why I liked the events because
like you said, like would it would it would have everyone's seen Kola without
that, you know, I don't know. So it's but a lot of
these coke these events are very cool like that. Um, you know we
heard the Za cup high times Like now you just talked about dabs and what
was that dis disc and dabs you know, which is more of a discomp
but that's fun too, Like, so it's just it's just that like,
you know, getting you know, we're seeing cannabis go into music vessels.
I played a music festival last year that had um some cannabis like sponsorship and
events there they were doing dab bars. I just love seeing cannabis just intertwining
with other worlds because that's how it becomes normal, right you know, Yeah,
absolutely, heck, yes, guys breakdati um. Obviously you guys are
on the medical side because playing a fifty nine in Waterford, so you guys
are medical and rack, which I think is pretty cool. Is going to
ask, but I remember you guys mentioned playing to the United and we've seen
the product there. Um, do you do you plan on continuing the medical
license, like just being on the medside, like or is that a license
you guys might drop in the future or you like because like because the caregiver
side I think reminds me of the medical side. So that's why I thought
it was cool to mention that you guys are on both sides of the medical
Yeah. Absolutely, it shows where on both sides. Um, we want
to service as many people looking for premium a cannabis as possible, so we
don't want to limit it to someone who can't. You know, if you
got medical needs and that's what you got your card for, we want to
be able to support that as well. That's where we started. That's you
know, kind of our mission. So I think people that's awesome. Yeah,
I mean because access is different for everyone, you know, so sometimes
I mean out here in Waterford there really is only medical. I mean when
I moved here from Oregon, I think there was one up here. It
was like high level UM and everything else was you know, medical. So
I was like, yo, I drive to Detroit and go grab some flower.
It's crazy, let's go for it. But you know, evolving,
you know, Um, it's nice because shops are opening up on both sides,
so it's a good thing. Yeah. Yeah, that's what needs to
happen. So it needs to be more locations where retail shots for consumers build
to go, especially when there's only like one for like many miles. Yeah,
no, it's very true. Yeah. Yeah, I was gonna ask
are y'all if you're if I was looking to like work at coal farms or
like try to work. How could how could they reach out to you?
How could they contact you? Are you looking for anyone specific? You know,
maybe somebody always off our website, guys and and and anyone reach out
to us anytime on the contact for him there and you can email us.
Um. You know, we run the ads on indeed when we're looking for
for help as well, so you can always check and need and see if
we're out there. Honestly, if you're trying to get in the industry and
you're looking for that, that in summertime is your best bet. That's when
every farm is hiring. A lot of our people started at the farm and
ended in the lab. So you know, that's kind of your your entry
level is going to be farm work. Um. That's kind of the easy
way to get into it. It's kind of how I got into it.
Um. So oh, you got your good your foot in the door.
You know, especially with cannabis, there isn't like formal education. I mean
there is starting to be, and there's like engineered training and there's certain things,
but like sometimes you just gotta get your hands dirty and get the use
of this industry because the industry is ever evolving. It it's so new,
you know, so there's no handbook. When you work on the farm,
you respect the plant when you come to the lab and you're like, man,
I was out there sweating, breaking my back off summer to grow these
Like now, let's let's do these right, Let's abstract them, you know,
with pride. So I like that aspect of every one of us has
been on the farm from me yep, um got our hands dirty. On
the Farm's where it all comes from too. I mean, like you got
it to be able to talk and walk the walk, right, it helps
to like know the plant itself, you know. I think that's actually really
yeah, but that's like a really cool like yeah, shout out the whole
farm team. You know, you work hard, especially out the harvesting.
Yeah, dude, it is a different ballgame. It's crazy. It's farming,
I mean in Michigan, and you know farming, you know, it's
everywhere around us. But it is definitely that, So shout out to them.
They're the ones that make all this stuff really happen. Well, you
say that like it is TRUECS. I mean, I mean I imagine you
guys deal with like pest and all these other things that are so different like
actually have to deal with animals and fences and making your animals actually not just
like little best you know, Liken, we got some peacock um bodyguards that
roll around so well hold on, hold on. So the peacocks like they
got like bags, no no, so like for real though, like these
birds with a kind of like they run patrol and like literally eat the bugs
and sure for sure, so we get packs on the trap I'm in now
the peacock king sounds cooler too, tire king, but for real though,
like is it? What is the strategy behind that? Does that help like
with all like the bugs and stuff. It's a little bit of regenerative farming,
if you you know, peep our story or you might hear us talk
about just the part part of being an outdoor grow and that sun grown bud.
You know, we are using some regenerative methods to try and you know,
not eat up the entire ecosystem for everything that it's worth. Um,
we're trying to make sure it's always working. And peacocks is just like,
oh, you could call it a little form of animal integration. You know,
some farmers would be like animal integrations cows, but you know, they're
they're out there, they're they're making their way through the through the plants,
and that term could you could you dig into that term a little bit because
I don't know if our listeners really hear that much because we deal with so
many like controlled environments. What was that regenative farming? Was that? I'm
sorry, yep, So we're generative farming. So you'll you'll see it on
on big farms, um and on small farms. You can do it anywhere,
is the thing. But the key concept and idea behind it is just
regenerating your environment. And so like we actually don't till um. We pot
our plants um to make sure the soil, you know, can just be
natural and keep on doing its thing. Um, we set up this pad
ass um like drip water system um to conserve water. Um that goes to
every single plant. Like it's the craziest thing you'll see, Like every pot
um has its own little system. But I've never seen a large scale outdoor
grow either. So I can't even picture what you're saying. I mean a
little bit, I can, right, But like when it's so controlled and
everyone's every you know, every one's perfectly in a line, and they're stacked
and they've got like library cases inside. It's very different, you know,
continent an outdoor, so it's really neat too. You don't even you know
you you're still putting them in pots like yes, massive, how big of
a plots? I gotta know now you can't tease me with massive? Two?
Undergone? Two? Wow? Have you your arms on both sides?
What these plants are like trees? You guys, guess you're just gonna have
to come Okay, So I've seen pictures of those. They're like the bush
trees that my hammer. H yeah, I would say, like from like
the ground, some of them could easily get over twelve the thirteen on them
from the Shout farm team when you're really are twelve feet and that makes sense
where you do. So I mean the plants probably I just because damn that's
I mean, it's a man. It's taller than me. I still big,
but then it's still probably likes you too, like on the side,
because outdoor you can just kind of let them grow and you're growing off a
so you're not in like a greenhouse, so you're not confined by space.
We're both so we knew new greenhouse flight death and we grow in the field.
So our flower you guys, that's greenhouse flowers. So yeah, light
death. That that's interesting is that for like the the wax frox and stuff.
There's just just just to try different strains and do different things. Really,
I don't know. I don't know a new farming. Yeah, if
I had DJA here, that's our head grower. M I to be all
over that and you know, telling you guys more stuff that I don't No,
it's very cool just the fact that you're doing both. I mean,
even if it's just R and D, it's really cool to hear both.
I just you know, like I said, i've been you know, my
brain always pictures the singular plant, you know, when you're talking about these
giant trees, I've only ever seen pictures. So I that's crazy. That's
awesome. You'll have to come check them out because it is something. Well,
definitely, when you guys, when is it like time to come?
Is it like August? Pretty much up towards August, you're going to see
the I'll be looking to him Earlier're gonna see some babies in the ground.
That's really exciting. August is my birthday month, so well, I mean
I do go up north usically for my birthday, so we'll swing by.
Yeah, that's so cool. Us I just want to I just never even
seen hot like cannabis grow out the way it can grow because it has to
be so controlled, right, So that's that's that's an advantage to the outdoor
grow too. You can let the plant grow grow. You know, it's
crazy just watching them, you know, just rip, you know, I
mean they really take off in that some light, probably some massive cola.
Oh yeah, well, you guys have been around for you know what you
said, a couple of years now, for your years you've been growing.
I mean, any advice you could give to a business star off or getting
into the cannabis industry or anything like that, and just from your aspects of
the industry, you know, any any information I'm sure it could be useful,
you know, for social media or process coming into it. If you're
coming in and following your passion, keep on with that, don't do don't
do what everyone else that is just to fit in. UM. I like
that. It's a UM we like to take pride in the way that we
extract is different from some labs, not like take jabs and labs, but
just take take pride in what you do. I mean, that's what we
do. So I appreciate that. Um. It's kind of fun. Uh.
My personal experience um of being in the industry really just a little over
a year, um, and I've learned so much. Um. And on
the marketing side of things, that's a whole another ball game, you know,
aside from you know, I love the fact that I was kind of
joking with Dave the other day, but if we don't we don't spend a
whole lot of money on a bunch of marketing stuff because we're just trying to
basically grow an organic audience. Just to let you guys know. You know,
there's lots of awesome brands out there. We're one of them, we
believe, and um, we just make some good stuff, you know,
Cannabis is what it's all about. So m just a cool thing though to
be able to kind of try to market a brand like that, like it's
it's something that I didn't see come in a while ago. And there's a
lot of challenges to to being in the marketing. You have to grow it
more organically, right because a lot of these other industries they can just pay
I got a ten thousand our marketing budget, I can just shove it into
the ads. You can't do that with cannabis and those are expensive, right,
So you're kind of forced to do certain things. You know, and
already as a canvas industry in the candas industry, businesses are held back right
with no safe banking, you know, dealing with the decriminalization stuff with you
can't just have credit cards and loans the same way. So it's like you're
already dealt with all these these demons, so here's just another one. So
it's like the marketing could be really hard. I mean, I see,
you know we're trying to make posts and you know we have cannon our name,
and they're like, ah, flagged has been shadow banned as long as
we've been doing this. Yeah, definitely my whole name and to find me
so zacks, what's uh? I was gonna ask you a question about the
future. Where do you guys see the future of uh? Cola Cola farms?
Going almost said alm, He almost did it. This whole time.
He's been good. He's been calling a cool wala, everyone's slipped in and
I've been waiting for him. I'm like, come on, just do it
one, just give me it. Sorry, right, definitely looking brand um.
I came from one of the largest brands on the West Coast, so
we want to achieve the same thing here in the States um by bringing you
guys premium cannabis at you know, an affordable cost. To be honest,
I know it sounds cheesy, but I love that you have your own farm,
you have your own distraction, you how to control your control your environment,
you know, so we have full control in what we're doing. We
don't depend on other farms and how they grow their weed to attract our resin,
our live resin. It's it's all in house, so you know,
we know from the soil to the oil, everything in between is all of
us. So nice drop, Why is it? I like that too?
I believe correct. We discussed that US are everything cool things. Like like
I said earlier in the cast, I came from Oregon. Organ's already banned
it. It's it's a it's a no boat there. The company I was
with, the Oregon for us, so it was an obvious you know,
when I got here that hey, we're not going to do it. You
know, just studies on CRC are still young, but they're showing a lot
of cancerous I mean, is my attractor he can go kind of more to
that than I can. But the stuff left behind from CRC causes cancer.
You know, my father died from cancer. My mother in law just died
last year from cancer. It's not something I want to push on people to
smoke. I mean, I want to enjoy smoking weed. I don't want
to have it in the back of my head. Hey I'm smoking cancerous materials.
It's lucky on because blabs don't test for it. I knew it was
bad, but I had no idea the links between that again, so geez,
yeah, no, I had no idea. You know, do a
little deep die won't find out what they're about, what they what they stand
for. Well, it just shows a lot, you know. It's it's
something you really believe in. You know. I can hear in your you
know, and it touched you personally, so it's like you're like, why
you know, this isn't something I can stand behind. So that's awesome.
That cool, really, like you really focus on that. It's not just
about profiting, so I appreciate that. Yeah, it's also misleading the customer.
You know, if somebody's getting some CRC leeched wax. Oh it looks
really good. You know, the old saying used to be gold is good
before you know, CRC started happening. Then why Yeah, no, I
mean yeah, right, I like the amber colors. It looks like how
it should like. Yeah. Yeah, you know, we take pride in
you know, the farm does a tremendous job, and you know it starts
from the farm because of course without them, we wouldn't be able to produce
a clean oil. So I like from soil. Yeah, exactly, that's
money right there. So the oil doing the extreme og right now? Yeah?
Nice? Nice? Um, do you want to jump into the the
funny question? Uh um, yeah, I guess we could do that.
Yeah, well then let them give any shout outs. Yeah well actually let's
do the shout outs first. Do you guys have any shout outs you want
to give it? Obviously you shout out arm team, but like anyone specifically,
any like people you work with, anyone to help to get to West.
He's really the big guy behind all this. This is his dream coming
true. So without him. Um, he's the reason I'm here in Michigan.
So he brought me out here, you know. Big shout out to
him. Yep, really awesome guy. And and and our investors and I
mean, I'll go down the list. Our employees are awesome, past,
present, future, Um, this this, that's why we're here because of
us. So a great staff. Shout out to Lisa, Shout out the
way team, the legal team. They're the ones that you know, tell
us what we can what we can't do. Um, and to make sure
that we're following all the right steps. Um. You know, it's nice
to have those people on the team to look out for. So shout out
to them. Hell yeah, shout out Coal of farm. Well that's the
thing, Like, it really does take a team, right. You can't
just be like it's one person because you're only as strong as your weakest link.
I hate something corny Ryan cliche, but it is true, like you
know, and that's why you have to shout out the whole team, especially
the small teams, you know, not these hundreds of hundreds of people teams,
you know, and the huge change over you know, so that's you
know, it's the family vibes. They're still they're still awesome. No hate
towards those big you know shops either, you know, because I can't remember.
I was watching one of your Guys's episodes the other day. I can't
remember which one it is right now, Um, but um it basically somebody
was on there and um, you guys were talking about um, you know,
big teams or teams too. You know, it's still people like,
like the whole fucking there's a lot of people that are about to lose their
job or just lost their jobs. Yeah. Yeah, well no, and
that's what it is. But that's why I guess what the only thing is
I say, I like that, like, you know, when there's not
as big, there's like not as much changeover, so you get to really
know your company. You get to trust your teammates, right, you trust
your you know, you trust that you're gonna get this done and stuff.
Yeah, you're the team. I've worked for like large corporations before manufacturing,
and that's at least my experiences. People care still, but there's you know
what I mean, everybody's on their own level of Karen so right, because
they're a little more worried about their own career, like not as a whole
because you don't see the whole thing moving. You just know your role and
you're like, I do my role. You know when you're at a big
company, you know, like you all were saying, like you all touch
that plan, you all worked on the farm, you'll have that common respect
that you're like, you know, we're doing this together, like get your
hands dirty. So that's what's about. Teamwork makes the dream work or day
We're just full of corny cliches. Damn love it. You asked the question
today. It's your question, bro. Yeah, so, um, it's
a it's a funny question we ask every guys who comes on. Um.
If so, if you had a ganja genie, like you're about to smoke
about the light up take a dab a genie pops out and go and grants
you one wish anything you can do to change the cannabis industry, what would
you uh? What would you wish? Me? Yeah, I'm on first.
Um, maybe that it just happened a lot sooner and and a lot
of bullshit that comes with the stigma just maybe wouldn't be here. That'd mean
my wish from the ganja genie, I mean, and to take an off
the federal board, I mean, schedule list schedules. It's stupid not to
revenue stream coming from cannabis because support nation. So like, what's the hold
up, let's get I'm right there with murquise is just me, you know,
federal legalization not sad. You know, you can smoke ate all day,
and you know, if you're in one of our bordering states, you
gotta fucking break them all to come over here. And yep, yeah,
you know, yeah, crazy, I like it. And those are all
great wishes. Yes, that was pretty quick too. I get it sometimes.
Do you guys have a wish? Yeah? What are you guys?
Wish? Oh my god? For me, it's off the scheduleist to criminalization.
You know, I do worry about jumping the legalization only because I don't
want to get weed from like every other state that I don't want, you
know what I mean? But I definitely think to getting what you said,
getting be scheduled is the biggest thing, because to me is just because like
every it shouldn't be criminalized and the only way to get over into normalization is
getting rid of this. Like cannabis is bad, Cannabis is evil, you
know, like mentality. So I think it's phasing away, but it can't
come soon enough for me. Yeah, yeah, that'd be true. I
mean I probably agree with you on that. I'll do so I'll say mine
would be Uh. Anyone that's in jail for cannabis should be let out,
especially where it's legal states. I mean, we're making tax tax money,
so much money. I think Michigan almost hit two billion last year in sales'
Oh yeah, I mean people are making millions the government contact. Let's get
people, especially if it's not even a bad offense like not much weight or
nothing like shoot it. Yet you should not be in jail for cannabis.
It's pretty cool. We've basically all got the same wish should be coming true
anytime though. Really, just we want to stop being treated like cannabis is
a criminal. We just want to live our lives and be smoked. This
ship given to that negative stigma. It's not bad plan. I mean it's
been. It's truly great. I mean we're seeing the effects from medical and
too recreational. You're seeing it all across the United States and now even world.
You're getting um, what I would say, legalization in other countries in
Europe and um, South Africa and South Americiland. Jesus, Yeah I'm high
now too. So yeah, so yeah, UM really appreciate you guys coming
on and representing Cola and letting us know all about Cola. The products you
have from the Rosin to the High Times winning edibles, they're two hundred milligram
edibles, just so you all know. Like Groovey said, you guys have
resin, rosin crystalline, you have flowering. I'm excited to see what you
guys have coming out this year and your growing the new product, and good
luck in the High Times Cup this upcoming year, and you guys have anything
else that you'd like to mention before we uh, just thank you guys so
much. This has been a lot of fun. We've not done anything like
this, so this has been pretty awesome. And yeah, I would just
say go vote for High Times if you can afford it, you know,
you know, go get you some really bomb ass product from all over Michigan
that you've never heard of before, and vote. And because that's what we
all need to figure out, is you know, if the people like it
and the people enjoy it and use it. Yeah, and go show someone.
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school too, so you know, appreciate you coming on. Yeah, thank
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