Alicanto Gardens is a new, family-run micro cultivator in Manitoba that hopes to have its first products on the shelves in Manitoba later this summer.
Cultivators
Alberta’s UpRyze Cannabis
Housed inside a 10,000sq ft facility in Acheson, UpRyze has spent the last several months growing out crops, dialing in their flowering rooms, and building partnerships to get their products to market.
Black Kettle Farms in Langley, BC
Licensed in December 2020, Black Kettle has already sold out of their first batch of flower, Rainbow Driver, in Alberta. And, they expect to have their cannabis on shelves in British Columbia and Ontario later this summer through BC processor Joint Ventures Craft Cannabis.
BC Cannabis Inc on the micro model serving First Nations in BC
Led by owner Albert Eppinga, the first of three micro cultivation facilities in Sooke under the BC Cannabis Inc. brand was licensed on April 9. They expect the next two licences later this year.
Salt Spring Island’s Magi Cannabis
Magi Cannabis is a small, family-run micro-cultivator on Salt Spring Island, in British Columbia. Josh Beckett and his partner Nadine are long-time islanders, with deep roots in the community.
Covert Valley Reserve
Covert Valley is a husband and wife team who began making the transition from an ACMPR personal production licence to a micro cultivation licence in 2018.
Origin Coast on micro cultivation and starting small
Licenced in February 2021, Origin Coast is a micro cultivator and processor located in Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Okanna Craft on their long transition into the legal rec market
The family behind Okanna Craft is another success story of a legacy BC grower transitioning into the legal recreational market, but the process wasn’t easy, they say.
Robert W Ritchie aka Bob’s Better Buds
Operating as Bob’s Better Buds, Ritchie is one of the few licence holders in Canada with an indoor and outdoor operation on one site under one licence. His first crop was an outdoor crop harvested last October, followed by his first indoor crop started in mid-December.
Ovation AG Ltd
Shortly after legalization, Ovation AG began construction of an indoor facility inside an existing barn on the farm on the shore of Lake Huron. They applied in August 2020 and received their cultivation licence on February 12, 2021.
Grump Weed’s aeroponic micro cannabis
Grump Weed is a micro cultivator and processor in Manitoba who, in partnership with a BC-based micro-processor, has products just beginning to arrive on shelves in some provinces.
The Safari Flower Company
The Safari Flower Company is a standard cannabis cultivator and processor in Ontario focussing on smart craft cannabis batch formats of new genetic entrants for the Canadian market.
