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AZ Nectar Farms – Phoenix, AZ
It’s easy to see that AZ Nectar Farms is by cannabis connoisseurs for cannabis connoisseurs. “[We] try to keep everything craft and quality [alongside] designer strains. May yield less, but they’re fire,” says co-owner and master grower Jim Ragsdale, who refuses to use botanically derived terpenes — cannabis-derived only. “Maybe they want to be inconspicuous and not have it smell like cannabis; maybe they want to taste the candy flavoring,” he says. “That’s not what we’re doing, that’s not what we like personally.” Ragsdale offers flower eighths, half-gram cartridges and gram-sized sauce and batter.
The History
Ragsdale and two co-owners started off growing in Mobile Mini pods set up like walk-in fridges. “I figured if I needed to pick up and move to a legal state, I could easily, with those pods,” says Ragdale. They started with eight and now have 53 pods holding 20 plants each, with weekly harvests. Twenty-four years of indoor growing experience readied Ragsdale for legalization. “I told my mom that if it ever became legal, this is what I was going to do, back when she was telling me I shouldn’t be doing it. It’s always been a passion of mine,” says Ragsdale. Nectar was the second licensed grow in Arizona, opening in 2013.
The Culture
AZ Nectar Farms doesn’t look like many commercial grow sites. Everything is small-batch, their concentrates are all single strain with intentional exceptions, and their grow and extract teams understand the importance of well-rounded products. “It’s not just that THC number being high that makes you feel a certain way, it’s everything that’s in there,” says Ragsdale. “Our [2019 #1] Errl Cup [winner] Tropicana Skittlz, normally tests between 12 and 15 percent; the one that won tested at 13 percent. That’s something we’re very grateful to use as a teaching moment.”
“It’s not just that THC number being high that makes you feel a certain way, it’s everything that’s in there.”
— Jim Ragsdale, AZ Nectar Farms, co-owner and master grower
