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Out of all of the dispensaries in Moffat Country, the HoneyBear Apothecary in Craig stood out to the creators of “High Design,” a new extraordinary makeover exhibit on Discovery Plus concentrated on dispensaries and the cannabis market.
The episode of “High Design” showcasing HoneyBear Apothecary, will be demonstrated at West Twin Cinema at 7 p.m. Wednesday in a free community screening.
“We want to be capable to demonstrate it to people today and be happy of it,” HoneyBear proprietor Shaun Hadley claimed. “I convey to my tale and how a great deal I really like this city.”
The host of “High Design” is the self-proclaimed cannabis connoisseur Kim Myles, who travels across the country reworking marijuana dispensaries needing makeovers into significant-finish retail spaces, in accordance to Discovery.com.
“It was the time of my lifestyle,” Hadley claimed of doing the job with the show. “Above all, I want to thank Kim Myles, the just one who operates the clearly show. You will observe the demonstrate and fall in like with her.”
This episode associated additional than just HoneyBear and the makeover. It also features the Craig local community and other community corporations that rallied jointly to make the project achievable.
The trailer and opening to the episode was filmed at the Wyman Dwelling History Museum, the place Myles introduces Northwest Colorado, Craig and the Yampa River. The design group used regional craftsmen from Yampa River Types and the Embroidery Shoppe to enable with factors of the HoneyBear remodel.
“I want to super thank most people who was included in this,” Hadley reported. “I recognize (it) from the base of my coronary heart — they dropped everything to make this transpire.”
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Each individual episode consists of field journeys to other cannabis organizations in the area to see how cannabis soaps, lotions and foodstuff are created. In the HoneyBear episode, the team spends a working day touring the lab at Golden Leaf to learn how hashish concentrates are created.
“A massive part of the show is that Kim is a pro-marijuana particular person and she’s striving to normalize hashish,” Hadley mentioned. “They did a actually very good position of shining a good light-weight on the marketplace, demonstrating the science guiding it and the people today guiding it.”
When “High Design” was permitted to start out creation, executives started carrying out investigation for dispensaries worthy of a entire-on aesthetic transformation. They noticed outside the house of the clusters of dispensaries on the Front Variety there had been only a pair stars on the map in the scaled-down Northwestern reaches of the Yampa Valley in Craig.
HoneyBear Apothecary homeowners Hadley and Bryan Gower opened the leisure dispensary in 2020 in a downtown place that was previously Excellent In addition Just one Hour Photograph.
Hadley explained the show’s creators located out HoneyBear was family-owned, and that’s what produced them decide on up the mobile phone and request the HoneyBear entrepreneurs if they desired to have their shop redone.
“They just arrived in and took the keys to the store and we had to be out of the store for 5 times,” Hadley mentioned. “We had no concept what was heading to take place, so the expose at the end is super real. They did all of it in 5 times, they didn’t do nearly anything prior.”
A different part of the business enterprise that manufactured HoneyBear stand out was a established of tailor made hand puppets that Hadley established and has employed for marketing functions.
1 of the puppets, Bubba the Bear, has even come to be the mascot for the retailer. As a section of the remodel, all of the puppets acquired a well known home on the store wall, and the episode functions a puppet exhibit.
“I am the biggest nerd in town,” Hadley said, “If you would have explained to me 5 a long time in the past I would be undertaking a puppet exhibit on Discovery Moreover, I would have thought you had been nuts.”
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Becoming highlighted in this episode was a wonderful prospect for Hadley for the reason that it available him a likelihood to get his temperament out there for individuals to see. Hadley claimed he wants people today to see the people driving the business enterprise.
“We’re continue to the only locally owned dispensary in city — I really like Craig, I’m area, I live listed here and I aid the persons all over me,” Hadley reported.
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