Welcome back to the Poor Pearls Almanac. I'm your host, Andy, and today we're going to chat a little bit further about last week's

episode and the utilization of Bakashi at scale.

Our guest today, Brandon Rust, is a big name in the growing cannabis industry.

Like a lot of people in cannabis, Brandon's background involves a lot of hands-on education,

which has been instrumental in the development for the cannabis industry

to both grow and quickly adapt to a high-tax environment while also finding ways to move

towards a sustainable agricultural model while working with a high-feeding crop.

What I particularly like about Brandon's perspective is while he is an advocate for natural

farming, he

steers away from vague concepts of what plants want in some amorphous hippie type way, but

values the resources that exist from agronomy, things like isolated minerals, and is

able to bridge these two worlds in a really unique and inspiring way. You can find

Brennan's products for Bakashi Earthworks in the show's

notes, and I hope you all enjoy this unique conversation that ties together a lot of seemingly

disparate ways to tackle growing food.

Brandon, thanks so much for coming on. Can you introduce yourself for our audience?

Sure. For those of you who aren't familiar with me, my name is Brandon Rust. I have been

cultivating cannabis for over 20 years. I specialize in organic agriculture, especially the

agronomy and microbiology side for cannabis.

I own a consulting company, which is Earthworks Agriculture, and I also own Bokashi Earthworks.

And I manufacture microbial consortiums for agriculture.

I sell carbon-based humate fertilizer that was developed by NASA Agricultural Technologies.

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