About Us

Charles R. Widmer, (Owner and Chief Operations Officer) recently returned home to Mountain View, Arkansas after serving over 26 years in the U.S. Army. Mr. Widmer is the only person in Arkansas with a Pharmacology Masters degree in Medical Cannabis Sciences and Therapeutics, and 1 of 134 in the nation with a masters degree in Medical Cannabis. Mr. Widmer started his military career as a combat line medic and was soon in charge of multiple hospital clinics, including Combat Flight Medical Operations and Head and Neck Surgical teams. He was later selected for a position with the Defense Intelligence Agency. As a Chief Warrant Officer positioned in over a dozen countries, Mr. Widmer was the diplomatic military liaison between host nation military officials and U.S. Government officials. His main duties with the Defense Attaché Office included serving as the military adviser to the Ambassador, and as an adviser to the U.S. Defense Attaché on diplomatic regulatory and policy compliance. Mr. Widmer’s community outreach, while in Africa and South America, include building remote medical clinics and staff training. He is most proud of his collaboration with remote tribes and building two orphanages while serving in extreme remote locations. Mr. Widmer was injured during his last overseas assignment. While recovering and receiving treatment, he was selected to his last position as executive officer for headquarters Company U.S. Army. His duties included administrative and UCMJ actions for Army personnel at the Pentagon. Two of his main duties were identifying possible mental health and substance abuse issues, particularly with returning combat soldiers. Mr. Widmer also holds a bachelor's degree in Healthcare Management. He was medically retired from the military in 2012. He then spent four years growing medical cannabis in the Czech Republic for a research program sponsored by Charles University, the oldest and largest university in Prague. Mr. Widmer returned home to Mountain View in January 2017.

Mitch Wine (Chief Executive Officer) is a native of De Valls Bluff, Arkansas and purchased property near Mountain View in 2011. He permanently relocated to the area in 2014 as part of his duties as the Karst and Cave Biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and now proudly calls it home and his future retirement location. Mitch received his bachelors and master’s degrees from Arkansas State University in Jonesboro in zoology and biology, respectively. His primary area of expertise is stream ecology and karst landscape conservation related to species listed under the Endangered Species Act, as well as environmental law/regulation compliance (Endangered Species Act, Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Water Act, etc.). Mitch also owns and operates Grotto Springs Ranch, L.L.C., an environmental mitigation banking operation that seeks to restore and protect streams and other waters of the United States. Credits for landscape and stream restoration are accrued through Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and used by developers to offset environmental impacts related to federally funded and/or permitted construction projects. Mitch is a 10% disabled veteran of the U.S. Army and also joined the U.S Navy during the Gulf War. In his free time, Mitch enjoys hiking, paddling, camping, caving, rappelling, scuba diving, good craft beer, traveling (to eat good food, among other things), and participating in all manner of nerdy science stuff.