Sun+Earth Certified Approves First Five Oregon Producers of Organic Cannabis
Sun+Earth Certified, a nonprofit regenerative organic certification program for the cannabis industry, has approved its first five businesses in Oregon. The newly certified businesses including four farms — East Fork Cultivars, Green Source Gardens, Oshala Farm, and Phoenix Rising Farms — and cannabis products manufacturer Luminous Botanicals.
The Sun+Earth seal guarantees that certified farms cultivate cannabis — and that product manufacturers source cannabis — that is grown under the sun, in carefully tended living soils, and cultivated with techniques that uphold strict criteria to ensure application of regenerative organic farming practices.
One of the first Sun+Earth Certified businesses in the state, East Fork Cultivars, is a 33-acre farm in the small town of Takilma, in Southern Oregon’s Illinois River Valley. East Fork grows 13 acres of CBD-rich cannabis for Oregon’s adult-use program and the broader hemp market. Luminous Botanicals manufactures full-spectrum tonics, gelcaps, and topicals using cannabis from Sun+Earth Certified farms East Fork Cultivars and Green Source Gardens. With a manufacturing facility in Portland, Luminous Botanicals supplies its products to more than 100 dispensaries across Oregon.
Sun+Earth is poised to become the leading standard in the industry: demonstrating how cannabis can be cultivated ethically, ecologically, and with minimal carbon footprint. Sun+Earth Certified aims to be the pathway to a future in which cannabis is cultivated through regenerative organic agriculture at a scale that is large enough to supply growing US market demands.
For more on Sun+Earth Certified, visit www.sunandearth.org.
