Our Story

We grow cannabis the way we think it should be grown — in living soil, under the sun, and without shortcuts.

GOOD BUDS started on Salt Spring Island in 2017 when brothers Tyler and Alex Rumi decided to build a cannabis farm from scratch. Today, we remain independently owned, family-run, and committed to growing flavourful cannabis using the same principles we started with: living soil, clean inputs, and careful craft.

Sunlight filters through foggy pine trees in a forest on Salt Spring Island near the GOOD BUDS family farm

GOOD BUDS employee hand harvesting sungrown living soil organic cannabis on Salt Spring Island family farm

Why We Grow This Way

Cannabis is more than a crop. It's a craft.
GOOD BUDS was built on the belief that cannabis should be grown like other great agricultural products — with patience, care, and respect for the natural systems that help plants thrive.
While much of modern cannabis cultivation focuses on controlling every variable inside highly engineered growing environments, we take a different approach. We believe the best plants come from creating the right conditions, then allowing nature to play its role.
Our farm is built around living soils, natural sunlight, fresh island air, recaptured rainwater, and carefully selected genetics. We spend years selecting and refining strains that perform in our unique Salt Spring Island microclimate, then give those plants the foundation they need to express their full potential.
Like a great vineyard, our goal isn't simply to produce cannabis — it's to cultivate something with character. Every season, every harvest, and every batch reflects the place it was grown.
This approach also means growing more responsibly. Outdoor cultivation uses the power of the sun rather than relying entirely on energy-intensive indoor environments. Living soils reduce waste, eliminate the need for single-use growing mediums, and create a healthier ecosystem that improves year after year.
We believe cannabis should be flavourful, thoughtfully grown, and connected to the land it comes from.
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Built by Growers

Tyler had been cultivating cannabis since 2005, long before legalization. When he and Alex founded GOOD BUDS in 2017, they combined decades of cultivation experience with the operational side needed to build a licensed cannabis company from the ground up.

Ryan Mant, Tyler's collaborator since grade school, joined them to lead the outdoor operation. Between the three of them, there isn't much they haven't figured out the hard way.

Tyler Rumi

Tyler has been growing cannabis since the mid-2000s, first under the MMAR and later as the driving force behind GOOD BUDS' cultivation programme. He designed the pheno-hunt process that produced Gluerangutan — selecting the strain from 150,000 plants over three outdoor seasons. He oversees all cultivation decisions and is the primary architect of the farm's living soil system.

CEO & Co-Founder

Alex Rumi

Alex joined Tyler on Salt Spring Island in 2017 to build the business and operational side of GOOD BUDS. He manages sales, marketing, regulatory affairs, and provincial distribution across BC, Alberta, and Ontario.

CSO & Co-Founder

Ryan has been Tyler's collaborator since grade school and has been involved in cannabis cultivation for nearly as long. He runs the day-to-day outdoor operation on Salt Spring Island, overseeing the outdoor farm activities through every season.

Outdoor Cultivation Manager