Brand Profile · Micro-Cultivator
Smoker Farms grows craft cannabis on a 200 square metre micro-cultivation licence in Beaverdell, British Columbia. Husband-and-wife founders Jeff Aubin, the master grower, and Sheri Aubin carried a 25-year Master Kush Ultra selection out of the legacy market in August 2020, and now route hydroponic, cold-cured flower into BC, Saskatchewan and Ontario through Joint Venture Craft Cannabis.
| Legal entity | 1180192 B.C. Ltd., operating as Smoker Farms |
|---|---|
| Licence | Health Canada micro-cultivation licence, granted August 2020 |
| Facility | Indoor micro-cultivation, Beaverdell, British Columbia, Kettle River farming district |
| Founders | Jeff Aubin, co-founder and master grower · Sheri Aubin, co-founder |
| Experience | 35+ years combined between the founders, 250+ aggregate legacy years across the operating network |
| Flagship cultivar | Master Kush Ultra (MKU), G13 × OG Kush, selected since the late 1990s |
| Water source | Spring-fed supply drawn from the West Kettle River basin |
| Processing partner | Joint Venture Craft Cannabis and its DEALR division, released as BC Black × Smoker Farms |
| Retail markets | BC Liquor Distribution Branch, Ontario Cannabis Store, Saskatchewan distribution, BC Direct Delivery |
| Formats | Dried flower (3.5 g / 7 g), pre-rolls, 1 g CO₂ vape cartridges |
| On Legacies | Episode 01 with Jeff and Sheri Aubin |
The Cannabis Act opened a narrow door for legacy cultivators, and Smoker Farms walked through it without abandoning the thing that made the brand worth licensing: the genetics.
Jeff and Sheri Aubin built the operation as a husband-and-wife enterprise, pairing three and a half decades of combined growing experience with a network that carries more than 250 aggregate legacy years. Health Canada granted the micro-cultivation licence in August 2020 under the corporate designation 1180192 B.C. Ltd.
The licence caps total canopy at 200 square metres, which rules out competing on volume. Smoker Farms answered that constraint by concentrating on high-density craft flower, legacy brand equity, and one deeply refined genetic line rather than a broad unproven catalogue.
Sheri Aubin’s work establishing and running the enterprise has drawn industry recognition, placing Smoker Farms among the more visible female-led, family-operated craft producers in Western Canada.
Milestones
Jeff Aubin begins selecting and stabilising Master Kush Ultra indoors, a process that runs 25 years.
The Aubins build the Smoker Farms name and genetic library outside the regulated market.
Health Canada issues the micro-cultivation licence for the Beaverdell facility.
Joint Venture Craft Cannabis takes on packaging and national distribution under the BC Black umbrella.
Gorilla Gardens produces MKU vape carts and co-cultivates Sweat Helmet; Straight Roll Productions handles pre-rolls.
Tissue culture micropropagation resets the MKU mother stock, clearing viroids and restoring vigour.
Legacy technique, controlled-environment hardware. The room is engineered for terpene retention rather than raw yield.
Plants root in Grodan rockwool blocks over flood tables, an inert medium that hands the grower direct control of hydration, electrical conductivity and pH at the root zone. An automated Dosatron injection manifold delivers proportional fertigation, so mineral ratios shift deliberately between vegetative growth and late flower instead of drifting.
Water comes from a spring-fed source in the West Kettle River basin. It arrives carrying useful mineral content and needs little conditioning before nutrients go in. Environmental controls hold humidity, air speed and temperature against a target vapour pressure deficit, which keeps transpiration active, tightens floral density and suppresses fungal pathogens.
| Location | Beaverdell, British Columbia |
|---|---|
| Licence class | Health Canada micro-cultivation |
| Method | Hydroponic, flood tables with rockwool |
| Fertigation | Automated Dosatron injection |
| Water | West Kettle River spring water |
| Dry & cure | 10-day cold-cure hang dry, hand trimmed |
| Packaging | Nitrogen-flushed cure and final pack |
Whole plants come down by hand rather than machine-stripped, protecting flower structure before the dry starts.
An extended hang dry under controlled atmosphere slows the loss of monoterpenes and the lighter aromatics heat would strip.
Final trimming is manual, which keeps trichome heads intact instead of shearing them off in a tumbler.
Packaging displaces oxygen to slow oxidative degradation through storage and the retail shelf.
One proprietary heritage line anchors the catalogue, with in-house crosses and a collaboration filling out the pre-roll and vape formats.
G13 × OG Kush · indica-dominant
Grape Stomper × OG Kush Cake · proprietary
Sherbert × Grease Monkey · with Gorilla Gardens
Also in the catalogue: Ultimate Cake and King’s Kush Cake across flower and pre-roll SKUs.
A micro-cultivation licence does not cover processing, retail packaging or interprovincial distribution. Smoker Farms built a partner network instead of buying a packaging line.
Processing & distribution
JVCC and its DEALR division aggregate craft cultivators under the BC Black umbrella. Cured bulk flower transfers from Beaverdell for nitrogen packaging, tax stamping and compliance clearance, then ships nationally as BC Black × Smoker Farms.
Extraction
The Okotoks, Alberta processor runs subcritical and supercritical CO₂ extraction on MKU flower to produce a full-spectrum honey oil for the 1 g cartridges, with no botanical terpenes, carrier oils or distillate.
Pre-roll manufacturing
Co-founded in part by Olympic gold medallist Ross Rebagliati, Straight Roll produces the uniform straight-cut pre-rolls used for high-terpene lines such as OG Kush Stomper.
Sales brokerage
Veridian represents the brand commercially, pushing provincial retail listings and budtender engagement that a two-person farm has no capacity to run in-house.
Direct channel
The provincial Direct Delivery program lets private BC retailers source inventory straight from the farm, shortening the chain and strengthening independent retailer relationships.
Provincial buyers
Finished product enters the BC Liquor Distribution Branch, the Ontario Cannabis Store and Saskatchewan distribution channels through the JVCC sales licence.
Smoker Farms sits at the join between BC legacy craft culture and the regulated market, and the feedback reflects both sides of that position.
The fix path is structural rather than agronomic. Tighter screen-size grading before retail packaging would route small floral structures into pre-roll and extraction runs and protect the premium flower SKU. The resin density of MKU also points toward solventless formats such as live rosin and cold-cure hash, where margin sits higher and particle size stops mattering.
The founders walk through the legacy-to-licensed transition, the 25-year Master Kush Ultra selection, and what a 200 square metre canopy really forces you to decide.
Terms used on this page
Jeff Aubin and Sheri Aubin own and operate Smoker Farms as a husband-and-wife enterprise. Jeff serves as co-founder and master grower; Sheri co-founded the business and manages the micro-cultivation operation. The company operates under the corporate designation 1180192 B.C. Ltd.
The facility sits in Beaverdell, British Columbia, in the Kettle River farming district of the Okanagan-Kootenay-Boundary region. The farm draws spring-fed water from the West Kettle River basin.
Master Kush Ultra, or MKU, is Smoker Farms’ flagship indica-dominant cultivar, a cross of G13 and OG Kush that Jeff Aubin has selected and stabilised indoors since the late 1990s. Testing records total THC between 22% and over 30%, with total terpenes between 2.2% and 4.21%, led by beta-caryophyllene, farnesene and geraniol.
Finished product reaches retail through Joint Venture Craft Cannabis under the BC Black × Smoker Farms label, which supplies the BC Liquor Distribution Branch, the Ontario Cannabis Store and Saskatchewan distribution channels. Private BC retailers can also source directly from the farm through the provincial Direct Delivery program.
Health Canada’s micro-cultivation class caps total plant canopy at 200 square metres. The licence covers cultivation but not processing, retail packaging or interprovincial distribution, so micro cultivators either add a processing licence or contract with a standard processor. Smoker Farms took the second route through JVCC.
Decades of vegetative cloning accumulate genetic drift and latent viroids. Jeff Aubin initiated a tissue culture micropropagation reset of the Master Kush Ultra mother stock, which cleaned the genetic material, restored plant vigour, and improved terpene expression and yield consistency across recent cycles.
Dried flower in 3.5 g and 7 g, pre-rolls in 0.5 g multipacks, and 1 g CO₂ vape cartridges. Gorilla Gardens in Okotoks, Alberta extracts the full-spectrum honey oil for the cartridges, and Straight Roll Productions manufactures the pre-rolls.
Brand profile compiled by Legacies Podcast · Last reviewed October 2026
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