Raised in Southern CA, Mr. D started skateboarding and later evolved into building surfboards, owning IG Boarding Shop all while surfing and snowboarding with some of the best in the world. Cannabis went hand in hand throughout all the adventures. After years of growing around his property near Mulholland Drive, he decided to head north and live an organic life in the redwoods of Humboldt County in the Emerald Triangle .

Behind locked gates, he mastered his craft with various cultivation techniques and breeding with true intention and an artistic approach, always focused on sustainability. Later becoming one with nature and dry-farming regeneratively in the Eel River Valley with cover crops with no irrigation or feeding, just allowing the native living soil to do what Mother Nature intended.