Rachel WeillBackyard gardening has bloomed as coronavirus has forced us to stay home since the start of growing season this year. While Martha Stewart doesn’t cultivate cannabis (that we know of, at least) on her farm in Bedford, New York, she has given her stamp of approval on an all-encompassing handbook, Growing Weed in the Garden. The book was born from a 2018 San Francisco Chronicle assignment to follow a cannabis growing cycle from seed to stash. “I knew nothing—I didn't know if it actually was indeed this incredibly mysterious plant that was very complicated to grow,” Silver recalls. Rachel WeillSilver compares growing cannabis to growing tomatoes: “Cannabis has been grown as a warm season annual everywhere where humans have ever lived.” A native of Denver, Silver admits, “I did not grow up gardening.

Source: Forbes August 10, 2020 19:30 UTC