Roses are Red,
Violets are Blue
NOW YOU CAN BUY POT BOUQUETS TOO
BY WILL KENNEDY
re cannabis flower bouquets, like, a thing
now? ’Cause I’ve never heard of one. But with
the prevalence of cannabis… well (gestures
broadly), everywhere in Oregon, there’s a
certain kind of mad logic to this evolution in
the market.
“I have not seen anyone in the country
selling cannabis bouquets.”
That’s East Fork Cultivars co-founder and
president Nathan Howard. Founded in 2015 by Nathan
and his brother Aaron Howard, East Fork Cultivars is a
leading craft hemp and cannabis farm, specializing in
CBD-rich, chemically diverse hemp and cannabis.
So the answer to my question is no, cannabis bouquets
aren’t a thing yet. But according to Howard, they’re about
to be.
Last October, East Fork tried what Howard believes
were the first-ever cannabis flower bouquet popups in
Portland and Eugene. Blue Bird Flowers, located at 1203
Willamette Street, hosted the local event.
Right around October is the best time to get the fresh
sativa, but East Fork plans on doing more popups of dried
and cured sativa flowers around holidays like
Thanksgiving, Christmas and Valentine’s Day, Howard
says. We could see it year-round, he adds.
The Howard brothers wanted to create and sell can-
nabis flower bouquets for years, and with the passage of
the federal Farm Bill, legalizing the harvest of craft hemp
at the federal level, their dreams became reality.
“We grew a few acres of really beautiful resinous
hemp,” Howard explains. “With those hemp flowers we
struck up a couple partnerships in Portland and Eugene to
offer cannabis flower bouquets.”
Cannabis bouquets are made from arrangements as
well as solo stems of CBD-dominant, very low THC and
terpene-rich cannabis flowers — otherwise known as
craft hemp. For looks, a few other non-cannabis flowers
are added into the arrangement.
And price points are competitive to your average floral
arrangement, Howard adds.
What makes cannabis flower arrangements such a cool
gift, Howard says, is that after using the bouquet to beau-
tify a home or workspace, the sativa can continue to be
used for other purposes. “You gift them,” Howard says.
“You take it home, or have it at work. We’re adding a third
step of enjoyment.”
We could start seeing CBD-dominant infused wed-
dings and special holidays, Howard continues.
“A lot of people who bought bouquets from Blue Bird
kept it on their table,” he goes on. “They’re very aromatic.
People enjoy the bouquet,” he says. After it wilts, people
can dry and cure the plant to do add to bathwater, make a
topical ointment or tincture, or just combust it.
So maybe one day, when weed is truly legalized all
over America, we’ll all be giving each other cannabis
bouquets to commemorate the occasion. Who knows? ■
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For more information about East Fork Cultivars, go to eastforkcultivars.com.
For more information about Blue Bird Flowers, find them on social media. If
interested in giving a bouquet around the holidays, email info@eastforkculti-
vars.com.
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