Andrew Black

Andrew has spent 12 years working in all facets of USDA organic certification, inspecting hundreds of organic farms and food-processing facilities in the United States and Latin America. He founded Certified Kind in 2014 to offer professional certification services for organically grown medical and recreational cannabis as well as industrial hemp farms. In 2018, Andrew worked with cannabis industry leaders to develop Sun+Earth Certified, a certification program exclusively for outdoor-grown cannabis.