HaciendaDon Pedro

The method

Natural farming, the JADAM way — with a Puerto Rican accent.

We don't buy synthetic fertilizer. We don't spray commercial pesticides. We brew what we need on the farm, from the farm, using JADAM-style natural farming techniques layered on top of the companion-planting intuition David grew up with. It costs almost nothing. The results are top-shelf.

Soil, first and forever

Every decision starts with the soil microbiome. We feed biology, not plants. Biochar, composted horse manure, cover crops, and a steady rotation of JADAM microbial solutions build the kind of soil that grows itself.

Farm-made inputs

JMS (microbial solution), JLF (liquid fertilizer), JWA (wetting agent). Made on-site from leaves, fish scraps, weeds, and water. Pennies per gallon. Healthier than anything off a shelf.

Companion planting

Cannabis alongside companions that repel pests, fix nitrogen, and attract pollinators. Orchard understory planted for the soil, not just the trees. Nothing grows alone.

Animals that work

Goats, sheep, and pigs clear, graze, and till. Laying hens turn the compost. Meat birds fertilize pasture as they grow. The flock and herd aren't bystanders — they're part of the system.

The economics

Pennies per gallon. Top-shelf flower.

A commercial grow at our scale spends thousands per season on nutrients alone. We spend almost nothing. Our inputs come from the same land we're feeding — leaves, manure from animals we house, weeds we were going to pull anyway, fish scraps a neighbor donates.

What shows up in the harvest is cleaner flower, healthier trees, denser vegetables, and a soil test that gets better every year instead of worse. The cost math is the punchline, but the soil math is the story.

We'll publish the full cost-per-plot breakdown on this page once the 2025 season closes out. If you're considering natural farming at your own place and want the numbers sooner, reach out.

Closing the loop

Even destruction feeds the soil.

Research-license rules require every cannabis plant to be accounted for from seed to destruction. We chip the residual plant material and compost it 50/50 with horse manure. Ninety days later, it's back in the field as humus — compliant destruction, zero waste, maximum return.

That's the spirit of the whole operation. Nothing leaves the farm that couldn't have gone back in.

Want the recipes and cost breakdowns?

We're building a public methodology library with inputs, protocols, and numbers.