Hi everyone. I'm new here and have learned so much from you all. I'm a long-time gardener new to cannabis - I'm in Colorado where it's now legal, at least locally, so I'm really excited about being able to add that into the garden mix. This year I brought home a plant on a whim and have been tinkering with her, her offspring, and a few others. I had to move in the last year (we had huge floods here) and have been subsisting on lots of containers of garden soil I brought over from the last place (!) while I get the soil here established - but, what I did get planted in the Spring is thriving and the garden plot is huge with lots of well-established herbs and well water. I also keep chickens and bees, and wherever possible I like to use what I can from my own little ecosystem or the local area, rather than a lot of imported ingredients. Chickens bring a lot to the table with shells, feathers and poop and they really speed up composting. I've never mixed soil like you all do for your plants in containers, I just take some from my garden plot normally and add a bit of the fertilizer mix I make in big buckets for my tomato patch, etc. I'm really interested in any intersections with beekeeping too, apart from pollination! I read, for example, that honey is useful in cloning/propagation. Haven't tried it, but I'm really interested in what you all are doing locally to replace commercial products. So, I really love companion planting, and am wondering what successes any of you have had? I am planning on putting a couple of indicas in the herb patch next year, near borage and lots of culinary herbs. Chamomile seems like an interesting companion plant, has anyone tried it? Also, I've just been reading about comfrey (how did I not know this?!) and am thrilled since I also have 2 HUGE comfrey plants here. I'm really happy to have found what seems to be a really likeminded group and I am excited to learn a lot more here - I've been parsing a lot of posts about 'nutes' etc. to get a good understanding of the plant but it doesn't seem to be nearly as finicky as people make it out to be... there are many harder things to grow! Anyhow, I am much more interested in having my plants be an integrated part of my little backyard environment.