Drive up Hwy. 8 into Lindstrom and you'll find a small team doing something quietly radical for Minnesota cannabis.
Concentrate Labs, which operates the Roots & Resin Farm, has chosen flavor, purity and Minnesota craft over shortcuts. It's growing and harvesting flower designed not just to smoke but to become solventless rosin, a concentrate which can be dabbed or heated up so that its vapor can be inhaled.
Instead of the flower itself, the real action with rosin is in the trichomes — the tiny, glassy glands frosting each bud. Rosin is simply those trichome heads collected as ice-water hash (made by washing the trichomes off flowers into ice water) that is then pressed with careful heat and pressure. No hydrocarbons, no ethanol, no post-processing chemistry. Just the plant, water, temperature and time.
This year, Concentrate Labs co-founders Preston Torres and Max Young joined the first wave of nontribal cultivators approved to plant and harvest cannabis for the adult-use market. Their Lindstrom site was highlighted as an early entrant and, notably, one oriented toward rosin rather than commodity flower. It's a craft decision and a bet on quality.
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