Fresh Frozen: Farm To Freezer With Cannabis

Harvest season is upon us across North America and in the cannabis-growing heartlands of inland Northern California, there’s a new fall shortage: dry ice.

“It’s tough. The dry ice is gone,” said Alien Labs founder and operator Ted Lidie, when talking about harvesting three acres in Yolo County, California, this month.

Over the last six years, the idea of freezing part—or all—of one’s cannabis harvest has gone from bizarre to mandatory. A full 30% of Alien Labs’ coveted new strain Planet Dosi is heading straight from outdoor fields into the freezer this year.

California’s largest cultivation licensee, Raw Garden, freezes 100% of their harvest, notes Jason Guillory, from Nug extracts of Oakland, a Raw Garden contractor.

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