When a CBD flower is good, you can tell from its scent. And the scent begins months earlier, underground.
When a CBD flower is truly good, you can tell before you even try it: the scent is alive, complex, recognisable. That difference isn’t born in a lab, nor at packaging. It’s born months earlier, in a field, and earlier still in the soil that feeds it.
In this article we take you into ours, in Switzerland, to explain what it means to grow hemp naturally and why we call it the slow method. No industrial secrets: just soil, time and a few unexpected allies.
The slow method in 4 steps
- Living soil. First we feed the earth, then the earth feeds the plant.
- Biodiversity. A field full of life defends itself almost on its own.
- Companion planting. Plants that grow together and help one another.
- Time. You harvest less, but with a character that haste can’t give.
Where a quality flower comes from
There’s a simple idea behind all our work: a plant gives its best when it can express itself, not when it’s forced. That’s why we choose varieties suited to our climate, grow them under the sun and respect the rhythm of the season, from sowing to harvest.
That’s what “slow” means: accepting that quality takes patience. We harvest less than an industrial operation, and that’s fine, because what we harvest has a character that haste doesn’t produce. It’s the philosophy we set down in black and white in our Manifesto.
It all starts with the soil
The first ingredient of a good flower can’t be seen: it’s the soil. Healthy soil is full of life, bacteria, fungi and small organisms that digest organic matter and turn it into food for the roots.
When this underground life is healthy, the plant feeds gradually and completely, as if from a well-stocked pantry. It grows stronger, copes better with heat and seasonal swings, and develops richer aromas.
That’s why our first care goes to the earth: compost, organic matter and light tillage that doesn’t disturb those who live in it. We feed the soil, and the soil feeds the plants. Each year a little better than the year before.
Working with nature, not against it
A field grown naturally is deliberately full of life: beneficial insects, birds, different plants around the crop. It’s not disorder, it’s a choice: biodiversity is our defence system.
Here’s how it works: the flowers and plants we let grow attract beneficial insects, the beneficial insects keep in check the ones that would harm the plants, hedges and edges host birds and natural predators. When the ecosystem is in balance, problems get solved before they become problems.
It’s the reason our plants grow only with sun, water and what the soil offers: the work of protection is done by the field itself. It takes more attention and more time than a treatment, but the result is a clean flower, and the analyses of every batch confirm it.
Companion planting, made simple
Among the practices we use is one of the oldest in agriculture: companion planting, that is growing together plants that help one another.
Next to the hemp we sow, for example, the marigold, a flower whose scent confuses unwanted insects and attracts beneficial ones. Legumes enrich the soil with nitrogen, a natural, zero-kilometre fertiliser. Other plants cover the soil, hold moisture and leave less room for weeds.
Each plant does a part of the work, and the hemp grows within a small community that protects it. Agronomic research is looking into these practices too: anyone who wants to dig deeper can start with this study on companion planting in hemp cultivation.
Why it matters to those who choose our flowers
All of this might sound like agricultural romanticism. For the buyer, though, it translates into three very concrete things.
A clean flower. Grown with the sun and fed by the soil, lab-tested batch by batch. What reaches your home is the plant, nothing else.
An aroma you recognise. A plant grown at its own pace in living soil develops a richer aromatic profile, more faithful to its genetics. It’s that complexity you sense when you open the jar, and that sets a craft flower apart from an industrial one.
A supply chain without shortcuts. The slow method doesn’t stop at harvest: it continues with slow drying and craft curing, all the way to packaging. The same patience, from start to finish.
You be the judge
Natural cultivation isn’t a label: it’s a method made of living soil, biodiversity, companion planting and time. We can tell the story, but the final judge is your nose.
If you want to put what you’ve read to the test, you’ll find the flowers born from this method in our CBD flower collection. And if this is the first time you hear about the slow method, our Manifesto is the right place to start.
