Satisfaction at Dee’s
by James Bridges
Satisfaction is something that can only be defined by the one that is experiencing it. For me that experience is very, very hard to find.
One thing I do know is that once I find it I want to keep it.
Mother Earth was simply in love with the universe when the sensuous and masterfully blended aromas and flavors of sweet cedar went to bed with a touch of oak. These two ganged up something with a tad bit of tartness and wound up with a fire made for the gods themselves.
I love Temple Kush.
As I said before….satisfaction…yada..yada… I ran into somewhat of a road bump. There wasn’t enough to keep. So…obviously, I was now on the hunt to fill yet another void as those voids tend to become larger and larger the more time we take to seek out the actual satisfaction. Oh my…what a whirlwind.
I followed my instincts and headed south. Out of town. Out of existence. Just a road and a need to get to the end of it.
There. There it was. A hop-skip-& jump away from a state penitentiary no less. Some of the best conduits of satisfaction in Oklahoma can be found in this beautiful countryside grow, Dee’s Sowing Co.
“You’ve gotta put out fire!” Brian Ganster shouts CEO of Dee’s Sowing as the fans blew in the background. I knew I was in the right place instantly.
“We are a small bunch. It’s me, my closest friends, and my family. The day-to-day is really just the three of us. So we’ve got to go all in. We’ve said that from the get go. We gotta put out the good stuff.”
“My name is Brian Ganster, but this is my mother’s Daddy’s place and my aunt is the one that owns the business but my grandpa Dee is this land. This 500 acres spread was his. When he died…I’ve been running this place, fishing it, and livin’ here since I was a little bitty kid. So still getting to run Grandpa’s place under his name has just been a blessing to all of us.”
Lead grower Joe Faught grew up in Oklahoma. He knew he wanted to be part of this cannabis world from childhood. It seems to be a common theme actually… Another rather unfortunate common theme is in the past cannabis sometimes turned into a bit of a risky lifestyle. Too risky for this family man.
“I was a grower in the past on the west coast. Then I moved back to Oklahoma. To my roots. Let’s just say I kind of thought about it when I came back.”
Joe and Brian actually grew up very close to one another. A couple of miles down the road according to them. So when Joe moved back to Oklahoma you can bet his best bud was going to come say hello.
“One day Brian came to me with this idea. Of course it had something to do with cannabis and I thought of my kids and how that was in my past…” You could see that Joe was reliving the moment. What seemed to be tears of passion came to his eyes, “Brian came to me with everything he had….$200 in his pocket. That meant more to me than anything.”
I could see the light in Joe’s eyes. He had no choice but to go into business with his friend.
I noticed a character standing in the background. He seemed to be observing things. Quite curious, as I love me some curiosity…
What’s your name? “Haggard.” There was a bit of a long (not quite awkward) pause. “Like Haggard…you know Merle Haggard.”
Haggard was someone some might assume by cover to be pretty hard. As soon as he smiled that giant smile and passed the smoke I knew those assumptions to be overwhelmingly wrong.
As the third of this group of reformed bandits, Haggard came across as the glue. He seemed to be the person to ask for just about anything and everything. When people say “salt of the earth” they are speaking of people like Haggard.
Joe confessed, “you have to make money to pay rent. I didn’t pay rent. I mean I got it eventually, but yeah, I went all in. Anxiety comes with the territory. We stuck true to our word and we got paid.”
“Trying keep up with competition is impossible if you are looking at things from a volume sold standpoint.” Brian was adimate. “You got to put out good medicine. The real stuff. The good stuff. This medicine changed my life as a kid. It’s helped me throughout my life. Now it’s changed my freaking entire life. A lot of people’s lives have changed, even a small amount. It’s all because of good medicine and that’s what we grow.”
This bunch of guys have come up with a simple concept that works.
- Grow good medicine
- Concentrate sales efforts within a tight territory to meet demands.
- Grow as you go.
Who woulda thought right?…
So for now satisfaction has been achieved. I know where the source comes from. I understand that the source is being cared for by an honest facility. I am also very happy to know that the people that are responsible for this medicine are good and are in cannabis for the right reasons.
