We sit down with Megan Housman, assistant grower at Prūf and a trained scientist with a master's of science in soil biogeochemistry— the study of how non-living things like nutrients interact with living things like roots, bugs, and microorganisms underground—to talk soil and media at Prūf Cultivar.

Now, as we are able to leave the underground and design facilities with the lessons learned from fifty years of indoor practices, Prūf has leaped at the opportunity to combine the best of all worlds: advanced organic crop production system, the best of rigorous science, and generational farming wisdom. That all starts with dream dirt we mix ourselves within our clean, indoor facility.

From Prūf Cultivar in Oregon, Astral Works is a CBD strain that’s coated with trichomes atop its beautiful green and orange buds. It provides an amazing floral and mango flavor before ushering you into a chill body high...

Prūf’s product labels and in-store information cards go beyond strain names and THC content to include extended terpene and minor cannabinoid details—a point of pride for Prūf’s Director of Production Science Jeremy Plumb. A long-time cannabis activist and researcher whom Willamette Weekly once qualified as “the smartest guy in the room,” Plumb leads Prūf’s R&D projects. He is most passionate about the cultivation environment’s impact on a cultivar’s cannabinoid and terpene profile (aka phytochemistry). “I live to find a correlation between changing environmental conditions and various phytochemical outcomes,” he says...