The Real Dirt with Chip Baker

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Matt Bickel

Bickel Consulting

Matt is the founder of Bickel Consulting and oversees cultivation facilities in Alaska, Washington, Hawaii, Oregon, New York, Maryland, and Colorado. He was the Chief Operating Officer and Master Cultivator at Maggie’s Farm in Colorado Springs with responsibility for 8,000 plants (outdoor grow on 10 acres) and 40 employees, cultivating organically from seed. He has worked with industry-leading companies like Silverpeak Apothecary in Aspen, Natural Remedies in Denver, Green Stop in Fort Morgan, Top Hat Cannabis in Juneau, Etain in New York, and others. Matt has deep expertise in cultivating indoors, outdoors, and in greenhouses, and he has experience as a project manager in all phases of construction, equipment purchasing, permits, licensing, and operations. Matt graduated from Baylor University with a degree in education.

On this episode of The Real Dirt, Chip sits down with Matt Bickel, an industry trail blazer with a hefty list of experience in the world of cannabis. Matt is a master cultivator, professional cultivation consultant, compliance officer at Vicente Sederberg, LLC, to name a few. Roll one up and listen in as Matt and Chip discuss the days before legalization, and the path to our current market in Colorado and beyond.

Matt Bickel

Bickel Consulting

Matt is the founder of Bickel Consulting and oversees cultivation facilities in Alaska, Washington, Hawaii, Oregon, New York, Maryland, and Colorado. He was the Chief Operating Officer and Master Cultivator at Maggie’s Farm in Colorado Springs with responsibility for 8,000 plants (outdoor grow on 10 acres) and 40 employees, cultivating organically from seed. He has worked with industry-leading companies like Silverpeak Apothecary in Aspen, Natural Remedies in Denver, Green Stop in Fort Morgan, Top Hat Cannabis in Juneau, Etain in New York, and others. Matt has deep expertise in cultivating indoors, outdoors, and in greenhouses, and he has experience as a project manager in all phases of construction, equipment purchasing, permits, licensing, and operations. Matt graduated from Baylor University with a degree in education.

On this episode of The Real Dirt, Chip sits down with Matt Bickel, an industry trail blazer with a hefty list of experience in the world of cannabis. Matt is a master cultivator, professional cultivation consultant, compliance officer at Vicente Sederberg, LLC, to name a few. Roll one up and listen in as Matt and Chip discuss the days before legalization, and the path to our current market in Colorado and beyond.

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Jeff

Natural Remedies Dispensary Denver

In 2009, Natural Remedies became one of Denver’s first 20 medicinal cannabis dispensaries, proudly owned by a Denver native and operated with the help of his family. Not long after, in April of 2014, Natural Remedies entered the recreational marijuana market. Natty Rems, as it has since been coined, has been located in the LoDo neighborhood of downtown Denver for 5 exciting years. Natural Remedies cultivates 100% of all marijuana flower it provides by hand. The magic takes place in one of two warehouses that total over 30,000 square feet. In addition, Natural Remedies has boasted its own in-house concentrate line called Concentrate Remedies (CRx) since mid 2015.

Natural Remedies strives to provide the most sought-after and boutique grade cannabis products, utilizing only the highest quality genetics, ingredients and care. Natural Remedies has been fortunate enough to win several awards starting in 2012 when it entered it’s first High Times Medicinal Cannabis Cup.  There, Natty Rems took home a silver medal in the Sativa category for it’s medicinal patient favorite, Red Headed Stranger #14. Since then Natural Remedies has experienced tremendous success and has earned various awards to show for it.

On this episode of The Real Dirt, Chip rolls it up with Jeff, lead cultivator at Natural Remedies Dispensary in Denver, Colorado. Jeff is a seasoned grower, with years of experience under his belt. Listen in as Jeff and Chip talk growing weed in Colorado, their favorite strains to grow and smoke and the present and future of weed.

Jeff

Natural Remedies Dispensary Denver

In 2009, Natural Remedies became one of Denver’s first 20 medicinal cannabis dispensaries, proudly owned by a Denver native and operated with the help of his family. Not long after, in April of 2014, Natural Remedies entered the recreational marijuana market. Natty Rems, as it has since been coined, has been located in the LoDo neighborhood of downtown Denver for 5 exciting years. Natural Remedies cultivates 100% of all marijuana flower it provides by hand. The magic takes place in one of two warehouses that total over 30,000 square feet. In addition, Natural Remedies has boasted its own in-house concentrate line called Concentrate Remedies (CRx) since mid 2015.

Natural Remedies strives to provide the most sought-after and boutique grade cannabis products, utilizing only the highest quality genetics, ingredients and care. Natural Remedies has been fortunate enough to win several awards starting in 2012 when it entered it’s first High Times Medicinal Cannabis Cup.  There, Natty Rems took home a silver medal in the Sativa category for it’s medicinal patient favorite, Red Headed Stranger #14. Since then Natural Remedies has experienced tremendous success and has earned various awards to show for it.

On this episode of The Real Dirt, Chip rolls it up with Jeff, lead cultivator at Natural Remedies Dispensary in Denver, Colorado. Jeff is a seasoned grower, with years of experience under his belt. Listen in as Jeff and Chip talk growing weed in Colorado, their favorite strains to grow and smoke and the present and future of weed.

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Mr. Soul

Brothers Grimm Seeds

While studying Nuclear Engineering at a college in Upstate NY, Mr. Soul learned to grow marijuana in a spare room of his apartment. “I read everything about growing marijuana I could get my hands on, but I was especially interested by Robert C. Clark’s ‘Marijuana Botany’”. Mr. Soul sent a letter to the owner of the Super Sativa Seed Club in Amsterdam and after weeks of discussing breeding and genetics, they offered him a job. He became their USA seed distributor to their American customers in 1987. He used his engineering skills to design hydroponic systems and climate control systems for his growing operations. He organized the garden work flow; scheduling and performing all phases of cannabis production; seedlings, mother plants, clones, flowering, harvest, manicuring, drying/curing and seed storage.

These projects became increasingly larger and cultivation was soon his full-time occupation. He became known as “Mr Soul” to the online cannabis community, where he shared growing and breeding information. He was reliably producing 1 pound per kW and delivering 2 pounds of high-grade MJ per month, when he founded The Brothers Grimm Seed Co. in 1996. His breeding projects produced strains of marijuana that are now world-famous, such as Cinderella 99 (C99) and Apollo 13. These marijuana strains were featured in High Times magazine articles among the top 10 most favored varieties of all time and have also been used by other breeders to create numerous award-winning hybrids.

On this episode of The Real Dirt, Chip Baker sits down with the legendary Mr. Soul, cultivator and founder of Brothers Grimm Seed Company. With a colorful background including nuclear engineering studies and years of cultivation which lead to the creation of Brothers Grimm, Mr. Soul is a house hold name in the breeders/genetics side of the cannabis industry.