Feature Story
Honey Green’ s
Record-Breaking Outdoor Harvest
Available soon at a dispensary near you.
� Honey Green’ s outdoor grow.
The Honey Green cultivation team, joyfully growing for you. by Clayton Stallings, The EVOLUTION Magazine
Outdoor harvest season is here once again for the handful of Missouri-licensed cannabis cultivators that have taken on the daunting task of cultivating cannabis in one of the harshest and most unpredictable weather climates in the country.
For the past four years, we’ ve visited Missouri’ s largest outdoor grow at Honey Green Farms in Joplin, and each year the team continues to defy expectations. In the first year, they were putting the field together; in the second, they were learning how to grow it; in the third, they learned how to maximize it; and now, in the fourth year, they expect to record the largest outdoor harvest per pound that our state has ever seen,“… three to five times larger yields than last year,” said Honey Green’ s legendary cultivation partner, Mac Briggs.
To accomplish such a feat, it takes a true legacy grower like Mac Briggs leading a“ championship only” team of“ aces in their places” and“ leads that lead from the front,” just to name a few team-building mottos used by Briggs and his crew.
Out of all the stories I’ ve covered in the Missouri cannabis industry over the past six-plus years, telling Briggs’ story of rising from the ashes has been one of the most remarkable. His journey from celebrating his 21st birthday in a six-month stint of solitary confinement in an Oklahoma prison, to squatting in the famed Emerald Triangle woods trying to find his place within our nation’ s oldest and most notorious cannabis communities, to becoming a leader in that infamous cannabis community, and finally bringing all he learned to Missouri’ s harshest outdoor growing environments is truly inspiring. You can read Briggs’ full story in our February 2024 issue on our website, which really helps you understand the journey it takes to achieve this upcoming record-breaking harvest.
While Briggs brings cultivation expertise, genetics, and teambuilding skills to the table, his partnership with Mike Eckles, CEO of Wavelength Extracts, rounds out the leadership team with innovation and entrepreneurship. Eckles is recognized for introducing one of the first vaporizers to the Colorado market, called the O. Pen, during the early days of Colorado legalization before launching Wavelength Extracts.
The two met in the Emerald Triangle during the early days of cannabis legalization in California and Colorado, and they both admittedly agree that Briggs could have very well saved Eckles from being one of the unfortunate victims in the Netflix documentary Murder Mountain. One of the many“ back in the day” stories you’ ll hear from these cannabis pioneers.
Legendary cultivation partner, Mac Briggs( on left) with Mike Eckles, CEO of Wavelength Extracts.
Briggs and Eckles are pictured above standing in front of recently painted white steel bars that they are using to fabricate their own rolling benches for their new indoor room additions being built, because being frugal is definitely a legacy trait learned in the Emerald Triangle.
28 September 2025