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Walking Among the Weeds at a Pueblo Pot Farm

By Jacqueline Collins

Monday, August 14, 2017 at 5:46 a.m.

Jacqueline Collins Nature's Gift Shop owner Dan Irey checks on his plants during an afternoon tour. 1/21

Jacqueline Collins Ladybugs: a pesticide applicator we can get behind. 2/21

Jacqueline Collins The plants at Nature's Gift Shop can grow over seven feet tall. 3/21

Jacqueline Collins Marijuana flowers that are still developing. 4/21

Jacqueline Collins The buds at Nature's Gift Shop. 5/21

Jacqueline Collins A farmer from Nature's Gift Shop tends to his crop. 6/21

Jacqueline Collins The plants at Nature's Gift Shop can grow over seven feet tall. 7/21

Jacqueline Collins Growing outdoors requires a very different process than indoor hydroponics. 8/21

Jacqueline Collins A farmer from Nature's Gift Shop tends to his crop. 9/21

Jacqueline Collins The buds at Nature's Gift Shop. 10/21

Jacqueline Collins The plants at Nature's Gift Shop can grow over seven feet tall. 11/21

Jacqueline Collins Growing outdoors requires a very different process than indoor hydroponics. 12/21

Jacqueline Collins The plants at Nature's Gift Shop can grow over seven feet tall. 13/21

Jacqueline Collins The buds at Nature's Gift Shop. 14/21

Jacqueline Collins Growing outdoors requires a very different process than indoor hydroponics. 15/21

Jacqueline Collins Marijuana flowers that are still developing. 16/21

Jacqueline Collins Outdoor plants need stakes for support, or they'll fall over from the weight. 17/21

Jacqueline Collins The buds at Nature's Gift Shop. 18/21

Jacqueline Collins Marijuana flowers that are still developing. 19/21

Jacqueline Collins Growing outdoors requires a very different process than indoor hydroponics. 20/21

Jacqueline Collins The buds at Nature's Gift Shop. 21/21

Walking Among the Weeds at a Pueblo Pot Farm

Denver's cannabis cultivation warehouses are easy to smell but hard to access. The outdoor farms of Pueblo West, however, are out in the open: secured, but spread out under the sun. Perhaps that's why the folks at Nature's Gift Shop are so happy to walk around their cultivation, which looks more like a toy store than a farm to some cannabis connoisseurs. All photos by Jacqueline Collins.

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