Welcome to the Cannabis Cautilance Podcast.

I'm your host, Tad Hussey of KISSorganics.

This is the podcast where we discuss the cutting edge of growing from a science-based perspective

and drawn top experts from around the industry to share their wisdom and knowledge.

I thought it would be good to do another podcast from the growers' perspective

and some of the successes and challenges associated

with running a commercial facility. My guest this week is Michael Wilson. Mike is the owner and

head cultivator of Maine Craft Cannabis, a cannabis cultivation company licensed under Maine's medical

cannabis program. Maincraft cannabis grows organically in living soil beds and I met Mike when he reached out in 2018 regarding consulting and dialing in the program in his facility.

We've stayed in touch ever since sharing ideas and test results as we continue to learn.

Before joining the cannabis industry, Mike had a career in mechanical engineering designing industrial centrifuges and x-ray machines.

If you want to learn more, you can check out Maincraftcannibus at Maincraftcannibus.com

or on Instagram at Maine underscore Craft underscore Cannabis.

Now on to the show.

Hey, Michael, thanks for coming on the show today.

Thanks for having me, Dad.

Absolutely.

So you started Maincraft Cannabis in 2018, and I've known you for, I think, since 2018

or 2019, but I wanted to talk to you today a little bit about your, sort of the methodologies

and timeline of your evolution as a grower going to a commercial scale here

with Manecraft cannabis. Can you kind of take me through that a little bit?

Yeah, sure. So my wife and I started the business in the commercial facility right in the

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