Know Your Grower -- Avitas
by Rachel Hantula, director of customer experience
Avitas is a well established Tier 2 is an indoor-grown, pesticide-free cannabis producer and processor operating out of Arlington Washington in Snohomish county. They produce flower and vape cartridge product lines under their brand name, Avitas as well as their flavored vape line known as Hellavated.
All great cannabis products start in the garden. Avitas’ growers have over twenty years of experience growing and even breeding a few unique, custom strains. Growing beautiful cannabis flower is the driving passion behind Avitas and all that they do. Each strain, grown with care, develops its own individual experience that ranges from calming to uplifting, with a variety of potency levels to meet any individual’s needs.
Keeping their herb healthy is of utmost importance. However, they’re also committed to creating a product that they can be proud of and that we can enjoy themselves. That’s why one of their founding principles is their commitment to all-natural, organic growing practices and why they never use any harmful chemical pesticides, insecticides, or herbicides on their flowers even though they might make work in the garden easier.
It’s true that chemicals are everywhere. Everything made of matter is a chemical. The food we eat, the water we drink, clothes we wear, and even our own bodies are composed of or actively engaged in chemical reactions. However, some chemicals, particularly those used in certain pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides are particularly dangerous when smoked, combusted, or vaped. That’s why Avitas uses only natural oils, beneficial fungus, and living beneficial, predatory insects to fight damage from things that might harm their crop.
In fact, Avitas is so passionate about being pesticide-free that they go above and beyond those measures. Avitas grows much of their own flower, but occasionally do outsource from other farms who are held to Avitas’ stringent and clean standards. They are fanatical about testing cannabis flower from other farms for pesticides as these products come into their facility to ensure their end product is always safe and of the highest quality.
Avitas achieves such high quality by starting with organic methods and great soil. They deliberately mix every batch of their own specially formulated soil with seven all-natural additions to create a living ecosystem that’s both great for the health of their plants and defends against anything that might cause harm. Using pesticides may have made this process easier, but they’re determined to be pesticide-free
Avitas chooses to grow indoors to ensure a steady supply of high-level cannabis flower. Avitas’ years of experience in the industry allows them to have perfected their optimal growing conditions over time. Their processes optimize their strains and reduce variability from crop to crop, ensuring that their terpene profiles are always spot on and their bud formation is dead steady batch after batch for their consumers.
Avitas’ dedication to producing clean and high quality cannabis flower allows for the curation of equally high quality cannabis extracts. Avitas processes fresh frozen flowers into live resin oil to fill their vape cartridges. There is never any flavoring added to their Avitas product lines. All the juicy, yummy deliciousness packed into an Avitas cartridge is a part of the naturally occurring terpene profile in that given cultivar/strain. Avitas’ proprietary method extracts the terpenes from each batch of flower at the very beginning of the oil-making procedure. At the end of the process, after things that don’t taste good like chlorophyll and plant waxes are removed, the full spectrum of terpenes are carefully hand-blended back into the oil batch. The result is a finished oil that smells, tastes, and feels exactly like the actual flower it came from.
Live resin concentrates are supremely terpy and as a result, flavorful. This allows for a well-rounded experience that closely mimics the experience provided by the same strain of flower. Avitas product packaging lists each strain’s terpene profile for you to assess whether any one strain, flavor or experience is right for you. Read more about terpenes and the important role they play in how cannabis can affect us in our Terpenes 101 series!