Dr. Matthew Indest is the Technical Director of Agronomy and Plant Enchancment with Curaleaf’s Nationwide Technical Cultivation Staff. He helps Curaleaf’s community of cultivators by means of a mix of in-person website visits and Picture Evaluation to diagnose plant well being and supply suggestions to native managers. He designs, coordinates, and analyzes analysis tasks, evaluates applied sciences, and advises on finest practices for bettering yield, high quality, and consistency of hashish.

 Dr. Indest applies his training and expertise from an array of plant breeding packages to develop distinctive Curaleaf cultivars. After a decade of working with typical agricultural and horticultural breeding packages to sift by means of germplasm libraries, Dr. Indest appreciates the worth of vetted, high-performing genetics for business manufacturing. The breeding program leverages a nationwide genetic library by means of particular breeding pipelines to develop improved, fit-for-purpose cultivars for every of the corporate’s highest-value product SKUs.