By Joseph Jaramillo
Next on our quest of dispensaries, we journey to the spiritually-uplifting Fruit of The Earth
Organics, located in Santa Fe, NM. Fruit of The Earth Organics is a family owned, all
organic farm, and every piece of cannabis is grown outdoors naturally under the sunshine,
fresh air, and with everything that Mother Nature has to offer. They utilize beneficial
micro-organisms, natural fertilization processes, compost teas, and all organic soil,
no harmful chemicals or pesticides. Every seed starts early in the year, they’re planted
and raised in greenhouses until its warm enough to be transferred outside in smart pots.
The watering system is almost entirely composed of rain water, it’s believed to be the
most magical of all waters, which spurts the growth of life on the farm. Additional water
comes from an underground well, with nearly perfect PH levels for optimum health,
which creates magnificent cannabis trees with high yields from every plant. That’s why
Fruit of The Earth Organics does one big harvest a year, at that point the flower has
months to cure, patients get to enjoy what is called “the champagne cure,” making the
plant mature like a fine wine in the process. Medicine here always has a proper cure
time, and then some; they’re not seeking a quick turn-around like many indoor growers.
At the heart of this is a mother and son team, Lyra and Jaum. Lyra manages the shop
and handles all administrative responsibilities, while Jaum is the resident master grower
and farm manager. Together they built their company literally from the ground up. They
were both artists and traveling musicians, touring across the country before coming in
contact with the cannabis industry. They’ve leveraged their business and are completely
independently owned, with no investors to influence their decisions. There’s no corporate mentality here just quality medication
and care for the environment. In fact, Fruit
of The Earth Organics are this year’s winners
of the highly esteemed 2015 Sustainable
Santa Fe Awards for Green Economic
Development. The company produced
a negligible carbon footprint. As Lyra
pointed out to me, this is a critical time
for our planet, and we all must do what
it takes to minimize energy use and pollution.
She spoke further encouraging unity
and respect and love for our planet and
for one another. Fruit of The Earth Organics
believes that medicine grown outdoors
working with the element of nature has
a different quality, their plants enjoy the
beauty and harmony of nature, out in the
world as it was intended. Indoor cannabis
production in the US alone uses as much
energy as 20 million households and 30 million
cars. Lyra drives an all-electric vehicle
which is powered by a solar garage and
she informed me she was working on solar
power for the farm, which would power
the entire facility. Inside the walls of the
dispensary everyone is greeted with
open arms and smiles, it’s such a peaceful
environment. They offer other forms of
relaxation here as well, like for instance
you can schedule a “Joy’s Hot Stone
Massage” which is a specialty massage
where their in-house masseuse, Joy uses
smooth heated stones as an extension of
her hands to massage you. The heated
stones can be both deeply relaxing and
help warm up tight muscles. They also
offer one of New Mexico’s biggest selection
of strains, approximately 30 to
35 strains. Prices range from $10 a gram.
The top shelf strains start at $12 a gram.
DONT FORGET TO DO THIS>>> (Strain Menu
Here) <<<DONT FORGET TO DO THIS Also available are gluten-free and sugar-free
organic edibles, made with every ingredient
intended to be healthy for you. They
offer classics like chocolate chip cookies
and sugar-free organic brownies or maple
butter chocolate truffles and the delightful
chocolate ganache. Everything is sweeten
with honey rather than processed sugar,
which we know feeds cancer and inflammation.
Always striving to provide you with
the best, most natural medicines.
The growing popularity of extracts, wax
and shatter for instance, has been an
uphill climb to this new innovation to medicate,
which is causing problems in the way
it’s manufactured. Staying true to their
code, Fruit of The Earth Organics uses extraction
methods in an all organic alcohol
process or CO2 extraction to protect your
health. Lyra has vowed she never has and
never will use butane, all shatter is strain
specific and CBD enhanced. Another section
of the dispensary is the CBD section of
the store, were no medical card is needed
to purchase these items. CBD vape oil
enhanced with delicious flavors of do terra
essential oils, four different salve formulas
extracted with CBD, and a dozen other
pain relieving herbs, which address things
like pain from inflammation, such as found
in arthritis, among other things. They also
have very unique CBD edibles and tinctures.
Lyra informed me that incorporating
other herbs with cannabis is a potential
amplifier for healing and other properties
can be unlocked when combining the
plants. They also have plans of opening a
CBD health juice bar in the near future. On
the grounds, they use earth friendly packaging
with recyclable tins, and bio plastics,
there’s also a recycling bin in the
environment. On this stop, we’ve come
to learn a sense of peace and wellbeing,
and seeing everyone in a place where
everything is being cultivated naturally
and organically, is simply beautiful. A farm
that’s visited by birds, bees and
patients, many tall trees, and a sweet
fragrance of wild flowers, serenaded by
colorful butterflies that flourish with the
beauty of the season. This is just a journey
and we are all the sums of our life experiences.
Here we learned one thing and it’s
that natural is the best way to go. Mother
Nature wrote the recipe, don’t re-write it.
Be Well. Love One Another. Happy Holidays
From Fruit Of The Earth Organics and
Kurple Magazine.
