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A combination of wanting to participate in the wellness space, loving cannabis, and experiencing personal health benefits led husband and wife team, Andrea and Jeremy, to open one of Vancouver’s best-loved cannabis shops, The Village Bloomery.
They were also drawn to the idea of participating in a social justice movement enabling them to share the benefits of the cannabis plant with people who were curious, but intimidated to explore it. It is important to the Village Bloomery team that customers have the tools to make insightful decisions with respect to cannabis and this idea has informed how their staff approach educating customers.
“We tend to ask questions,” Andrea says. “ We want to understand the person’s experience, preferences, and end goals. We want to get to a place where we can explain how the plant expresses itself through its genetics, its essential oils (terpenes), and its cannabinoids so that they (the customer) are in the driver’s seat when selecting a product to explore.”
At The Village Bloomery, the team takes a thoughtful and mindful approach to curating their menu by looking for products from producers who are focused on quality metrics other than bulk. The goal is to work towards a menu featuring 80% B.C. grown products and to look for folks who grow using micro production methods, meaning small grow rooms dedicated to single cultivars, ideally in organic living soil or with curated nutrient mixes, long flush terms, finishing with hand dried and hand trimmed procedures.
“We want to find producers with whom we are politically and socially aligned and while we realize that this is a big ask, it’s what we are going for! ”
A deep love for the plant-inspired Andrea and Jeremy, along with their team to support people to develop their own relationship with cannabis. “We love dry flower and we love products that allow people to celebrate their love of the flower daily,” Andrea says. “So self-care products like topical creams and bath products are nice, as are lovely edibles and CBD wellness-focused products.”