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Hey Fam, NYSF is proud to announce the opening of our long anticipated incubator. We are offering one-on-one consultations to assist microbusiness, cooperatives, tier I and tier II licensees and applicants. Receive assistance in site plan selection; compliance; production; business planning; cultivation; tacking and understanding federal, state, and local laws, regulations and policies; TPI; raising capital; facility design; labor law; Standard Operating procedures; sustainability; inventory tracking; recording keeping and reporting; branding and marketing; creating a community development and sustainability plan; soil health and regenerative operation models; and all other aspects of navigating the NY adult-use cannabis landscape to launch and maintain a low-carbon, compliant, and successful operation. Scholarships are available for SEE applicants and Ulster County residents. Priority will be given to operations located in the Hudson River Valley but this opportunity is open state wide. Priority will also be given to clients we helped in the TAP program to apply for their license. Send First and Last name, business name, and phone number to: [email protected] Limited number of spots available! We look forward to hearing from you! Come grow with us!

Join us for a 4/20 weekend celebrating the freedom of homegrow. Clones, seeds, and living soil and C@nn@bis product for sale at both locations on Saturday and Sunday On Saturday 4/20 we will be in Dutchess County at A Farm For All (at White Pines Collective) starting at 2:30 pm . We will be offering our favorite c@nn@bis products for sale via onsite delivery thru Elevate ADK as well as clones, seeds, and living soil. We will offer the following courses for FREE on 4/20 only!: -overview of homegrow regs -101 of how to grow at home -how to build your own living soil workshop Then on Sunday 4/21 at 2:00 pm catch us in Orange County in Newburgh at Happy Tree Love : $55 gets you all three classes, free clone, and free soil plus a movie double feature (Tending the Garden and Grass Is Greener) Clones and seeds for sale all day at both locations! Come celebrate homegrow and 4/20 weekend with us and get set up to grow your own medicine at home!

We are just 2 days away from the 2024 Farmers Forum and we have definitely saved the best for last! Check out our line up of incredible speakers ready to drop knowledge and engage in open roundtable discussions with the community. Keynote speaker James Roger, Director Small Business OCM Dr. Daniella Vergara: NY Genetics w/ Q&A Panel: Brian Farmer Deputy Director Business Incubation, Scot Trifilo Ten-Ten Cannabis, and Michael Kudrewicz of Ravens View Genetics. Arthur Brownsey of Chickidoo Hempstead: Regenerative Cultivation w/ Q&A panel: Will Liebee Back Home Farms, Collin Palmer of Vessel Life Science representing DEM Pure, Timothy LaGarry of Canna Cure Farms, and Ted Dobson of Equinox Farm Berkshires. Chris Becker of the Honeybee Farm Collective, Colorado: Branding - How to tell your story and operating community focused worker cooperatives. Christian Torres of Excelsior Cannabis Club will lead a flower Grading workshop. The Product Showcase with over 30 farms and processors displaying NY grown products to over 40 retailers. We received over 34 Cup entries from licensed and legacy/homegrow cultivators. This will be an epic day. Thank you to all who are participating, especially our speaker sponsor. I cannot wait!

Please support today's press conference calling for budget funds to be allocated to the most harmed and the most vulnerable members of the cannabis community: the CDI neighborhoods and the individuals within them, especially programs and resources for Extra Priority applicants and licensees. Tuesday's post was an emotional sharing of some of our experiences and disappointments within the advocacy community. However, we can not let anything detract from the fact that Black and Brown communities in America have suffered from systemic racism since white people placed their feet on this country's soil. Our brothers and sisters of color, in particular Black communities, incessantly get not just the short end of the stick but often nothing. While we as advocates might not agree on how to work together or share in this message, the reality of the abject unfairness experienced by the Black community cannot assume a subsidiary role to any topic. Please re-post this flyer. Plaster it all over social media. Tag NYS leadership, including Kathy Hochul. Call them. Google your representative and make a call. Demand equitable protection of the inalienable rights of all people. Please join me. Let's hit them where it hurts, let them know their voters disapprove.

We are three years into legalization and the conditional program. The MRTA calls for no and low interest loans, incubators, and funding assistance for Social and Economic Equity adult-use cannabis Licensees. Social and Economic Equity applicants have been sidelined, waiting for three years to enter. What programs are funded in the budget for them? Which cannabis focused community and charitable organizations established to specifically help the SEE licensee and applicants are receiving funding? How many incubator programs will be able to begin developing with State funds? Which of your representatives championed social and economic equity by ensuring these MRTA mandated requirements were finally implemented? Medical Cannabis has been allotted $7M, so if its based on the most needy, it must be looking tight out there for the community right? Let's talk about the environment now shall we? We are drinking soggy straws, banning packaging, and imposing fees on existing businesses because they contribute to the climate crisis. So how much funding goes into developing a brand new industry not built on the same unsustainable practices? How much was set aside for that? #takenotesforelectionnight #regenerative #buylocal #smokelocal #whatajoke #nysisaheartbreaker

Thank you to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters for Sponsoring the 2024 Farmers Forum, Product Showcase and Cultivators Cup. This year the Cup is opened to license and legacy cultivators in the categories of H@sh and Flower. Judging for flower is open to budtenders, cultivators who are not entering the Cup, and attendees. To be eligible to be a judge dispensaries must register before March 15. We will be announcing the H@sh judges this week. To enter the Cup fill, register for the Cup and we will send you an entry form. Cup participants bring entries day of event. For early drop off or questions contact: [email protected] The Form and Product Showcase is an industry event focused on farmer education and connecting the retail supply chain with the farmers and processors. #buylocal #smokelocal #thisisnyc@nn@bis

Down to Round two! NYSF is pleased to announce our next Farmer's Forum, Product Showcase, and Cultivator's Choice Cup. Brands, AUCC, and new licensees are invited to attend the 2024 Farmer's Forum and Product Showcase. The first half of the day is for cultivator knowledge and networking. We will have talks on genetics, regenerative cultivation, and branding. These are excellent topics for budtenders as well! 3:30 -4:30 Flower Grading Workshop - for those who want to learn more about what makes great flower great. Then from 4pm - 8pm is the Product Showcase. Retail owners, managers, and employees across NY are invited to attend and check out the product and flower on the market from NY farmers. This will be an epic and fun event. If you are in one of those categories and have not received an invite and are interested in attending, please shoot us an email at: [email protected] CCTM fam please reach out! We don't have contact for all of you. If you signed up for Local Smoke and opted not to get a refund, you will be receiving an invitation to this event. #smokelocal #buylocal

No exciting pictures today but some very useful information. We hope this is helpful. Next CCB meeting: Friday, February 16, 2024.

Rosendale's First and Only Cannabis Growers Showcase presented by the Cannabis Social Equity Coalition @csec-nys It is FREE, cozy and warm The CSEC NYC fights for the most harmed members of the social and economic equity population in NY State. They also represent members from communities disproportionately impacted. CSEC has been in NY fighting for the most marginalized populations from day one - through years of crafting legalization to the present day. They do excellent work and they pull no punches. We are proud to support them and this effort and you can catch us on location on most days! Open Friday - Saturday until the end of December. Plenty of room to hangout in this pretty spot. Come on out and say hello and checkout some great cannabis flower. Can't wait to chat with everyone who comes by! Pull up Rosendale Pull up HRV XO

Our event Local Smoke has been canceled due to Office of Cannabis denying the permit for the Cannabis Growers Showcase and deeming the entire event illegal. According to OCM since they have not created regulations permitting indoor consumption where folks have to pay to consume and they get the taxes, they are compelled to deny any legal sale taking place next door to legal outdoor consumption as they do not recognize outdoor consumption in any area legal. Aint that some shizzzzittttt for the holidays. This is devastating the farmers, their employees, and all their families who rely on these revenue streams. It is also a financial blow to NYSF who spent hours and lots of money to organize a fundraiser that was sabotaged by OCM without cause and to all those who wanted to attend, the sponsors, supporters, and the whole community. We are working to get our raffle items posted online and making plans for our next event away from the beady unjust eyes of OCM. Stay tuned! We apologize for the inconvenience. Thanks to all those who donated to support us during this time. Wishing all the best of the season and a blessed New Year.