Marijuana Business Magazine October 2018

“We learned from sailing together and sail- boat racing together that we can remain calm during intense and competitive situations,” Emily noted. Humor as Medicine Sometimes being wacky at work is the best medicine for avoiding stress. Ask Sloan Reed and her sister, Siobhan Danger Darwish. In the summer of 2017, Sloan, 20, moved from Utah to California to join her sister’s Blessed Coast Farms, one of the first permitted cannabis cultivation sites in Humboldt County. Sloan had been studying psychology and felt stifled by the classroom scene, when Siobhan, Blessed Coast Farms’ 34-year-old founder, invited her to team up. The sisters have videotaped their time together, documenting their journey in the marijuana business.They call the videos the “Grow Sisters Project.” “The greatest advantage of working with family is that you communicate differently than with coworkers,” Darwish said. “We are able to be honest with our needs and desires on the farm.” The sisters had a lot of fun filming Sloan’s journey on their “Grow Sisters Project” last summer.They posted 50 YouTube videos, which range in length from about 2½ minutes to more than 20 minutes.The videos cover top- ics such as when to harvest, sustainability and one they dubbed “Dirty Talk,” which focused on testing soil conditions.The YouTube chan- nel has more than 950 subscribers, and some of the videos have had thousands of views. “Sloan and I are both pretty easy people to work with, and there wasn’t any tension between us,” Darwish said. “Having the ‘Grow Sisters Project’ was so much fun that it created a silly working environment and took stress off the work.” ◆ Siobhan Danger Darwish, left, works with her sister, Sloan Reed, at Darwish’s Blessed Coast Farms in Humboldt County, California. Photo courtesy of Blessed Coast Farms