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Fall is our season! Nature has gifted us this time to harvest our many bounties. Go outside and feel the crisp air on your cheeks. Notice the pumpkins, squash, and bushels of apples for the pickin’. Across parts of northern Michigan and along our peninsulas, you might still see some wildflowers on the horizon. And while you’re gazing, you just might notice another kind of flower growing: your neighbor’s outdoor cannabis crop.

Farming cannabis outdoors is a legal enterprise in the State of Michigan, with a few licensing requirements. Most importantly, outdoor growing is only legal if attached to a licensed indoor grow operation. So, if the facility on the property is licensed, the land outside the facility may also be licensed.

Nature’s sunlight provides full spectrum lighting, which allows for more natural terpenes and cannabinoid growth than you can get from artificial lighting used in indoor grows. Letting in the sun seems simple, but the entire outdoor grow area needs to be safely secured behind fencing with lockable gates. Also, as with any licensed cannabis establishment in Michigan, the outdoor grow needs to be under 24-hour camera surveillance, with footage stored on a server for at least one month.

Once harvested, outdoor cannabis crops typically make their way into the processing system to become concentrates for vape carts, edibles and other cannabis products calling for a higher potency.

This Croptober, offer your neighbor a hand with their plants. Now that harvest season brings you new opportunities, enjoy what nature has provided.

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