CannaCribs Season 7, Ep.6
Collective Elevation
Inside a Totally Organic Living Soil Commercial Cannabis Grow in Montana
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CannaCribs: Season 7, Episode 6
In this episode, Nate visits Collective Elevation in Bozeman, Montana
Most commercial cannabis facilities avoid living soil. It is harder to control, slower to scale, and mistakes can be incredibly expensive. At Collective Elevation in Bozeman, Montana, Adam Arnold and his team chose the hard path and turned it into a competitive advantage. This facility is one of the largest cannabis cultivators in Montana, and it is built around soil biology, plant health, and flavor-driven results. Adam has become one of the country’s leading voices in living soil cultivation. He has partnered with Kiss Organics to host and teach the Cannabis Cultivation and Science Conference at his growing operation, where growers toured the facility to learn from decades of experience.
When asked why he prefers cannabis plants grown in living soil, Adam said that “it’s better for the planet, better for the people, and cheaper to produce”. From a business perspective, these “three wins” are rarely achieved. If done properly, living soil is cheaper. Sustainability is part of their mission statement. Living soil brings out specific flavonoids and terpenes that the exact same phenotype or strain grown indoors in a salt-based system does not have. One of the benefits of living soil systems is that the soil never needs to be replaced if everything is done correctly. The soil in their mom room, put in when the room was built in 2020, is now 5 years old and “still going strong”.