Tad Hussey ~ Keep It Simple Farm and KiS Organics Cannabis Cultivation & Science Podcast

Read the text version of my interview here: Golden Seeds Issue 13 Tad Hussey

My interview with Tara Caton At the Rodale Institute Hemp Botanist

I’m curious how you found out about me.

Haha, IDK? Well, one I’m always looking for guests! But I did just release for Earth Day April 22, 2019, this interview with Tara Caton from the Rodale institute last week and since then I have been online researching hemp and cannabis and I am just flabbergasted at what has changed because when I started my podcast in 2015, I couldn’t find someone to come on my show and talk about hemp or cannabis for 4/20 day.

The other thing is I have always dreamed of being a sunflower farmer, and originally I thought I would sell sunflowers to florists, but then I thought bird seed would suit me better but this last winter, I thought I would like to grow sunflower sprouts after I was going crazy looking for fresh greens and my step-daughter gave me some and I was so excited, after the romaine recall. My husband planted so much kale and swiss chard etc last year for me, I didn’t have to buy any greens from August to November!

Wow, I can tell you’re a plant enthusiast.

Well, I’m a sunflower and hemp enthusiast!

It’s Thursday, April 17, 2019! Earth Day is coming up on Monday! I have another podcaster on the line. His business is KiS Organics. Welcome Tad Hussey!

I know we’re gonna learn a lot!

Are you in Oregon, Washington? Somewhere by the Pacific Coast?

I am in the North West. About 20 minutes east of Seattle in Redmond, Washington.

Tell us a little about yourself.

Sure so, I’m 41 years old, I grew up with father actually both my parents running a commercial nursery and landscape business here on 7 acres in Redmond. So, I grew up around plants, but wasn’t that into them. I kind of moved away from it but after college I came back with a masters degree in another field and I had trouble finding work in that field I really enjoyed.

So I ended up coming into my parents business which was all about compost tea at that point so I ended up learning all about:

• compost tea
• microbes and
• gardening

from that we sort of expanded we got the property where they originally had the landscape country.

This was about 2011. This was sort of the time of victory gardens and backyard chickens. Nurseries were sort of failing so we knew we didn’t want to do that.

So we started this thing:

KIS Farm

Keep It Simple Farm

It started out as a feed store.

I knew there...