Connecting the Grow Room to the Board Room
Bickel Consulting’s mission is to blend the heart, soul, and integrity of cannabis culture and cultivation with the business needs of today’s commercial growers to build a better industry for all.
At Bickel Consulting, we know your licensed cannabis cultivation operation isn’t just a passion project. It has a clear path to profitability with the right techniques and tools.
As a grower, you know your plants are the cornerstone to your success. You also understand what a failed crop costs you. We’re here to guide you toward ethical, practical, and customized cultivation solutions that produce healthy plants and also make you money over the long term.
From our days in medical caregiving to our work with licensed operators since 2015, Bickel Consulting’s team has decades of experience in cannabis cultivation. We’ve worked with small craft growers and large, multi-state operators (MSOs) in outdoor, indoor, and greenhouse settings from coast to coast.
(In other words: There’s not much that we haven’t seen in commercial cultivation.)
Our team has developed expertise in technological advancements, horticultural techniques, applicable laws, and best business practices to sharpen your competitive edge in the cannabis market.
For us in practice, that means dedication, full transparency, and no BS. In our commitment to you, we don’t gatekeep our knowledge and we’re not afraid of the tough conversations if it means your business is going to be stronger and more financially sustainable as a result.
The deep passion we hold for cannabis and its culture makes us obsessive about detail and uncompromising about the integrity of our services. Our “no kickbacks” policy means that you will only be presented with best-in-class products and service providers that we have vetted time and time again.
To put it simply, we serve as the bridge between your grow room and your board room, working hand-in-hand with your cultivation and executive teams on license applications, facility buildouts, day-to-day operations, training, partnerships, and due diligence. Our support frees up space for you to focus on the high-growth levers of your business.
If we’re truly honoring the cannabis plant and all it gives to us—we wouldn’t be doing it any other way.
Meet the Team
Matthew Bickel
Matthew Bickel is the founder and President of Bickel Consulting. As an experienced and dedicated cultivator, he has grown from the early days of legalization in Colorado to become the leader of a widely recognized and highly reputable national consulting business. His passion and dedication stems from his background as a captain of the D1 football team at Baylor University and obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree in Education. With his leadership abilities, love of the cannabis plant, and knowledge of cannabis cultivation, he has helped over 40 cannabis companies across 18 states and multiple countries achieve high levels of success with best in class facilities and operations. As the industry shifts with new technologies, and ever present market impacts, Matthew continues to be on the cutting edge of helping companies grow, evolve, and adapt the the modern landscape of legal cannabis.
Luke Batten
Luke Batten serves as Bickel Consulting’s Vice President of Cannabis Cultivation. Since joining the company in 2017, Luke has worked with more than 30 cannabis cultivation facilities across 15 states, helping them win competitive license applications as well as establish and optimize their growing operations. Luke harnesses his extensive knowledge in cultivation—from HVAC systems to fertigation, pest control, LED and HPS lighting, mobile benching, irrigation, and much more—to help his clients achieve a robust record of success in the legal cannabis market. Prior to joining Bickel, Luke worked in various cultivation capacities for companies like Terrapin Care Station, The Green Stop, and Colorado Alternative Medicine. Luke holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Plant Soil and Insect Sciences from University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and has also served as an expert witness in cultivation-related lawsuits to provide expert cultivation opinions, reports, and testimony on case specific details and arguments.
Our Story
Our Values
Knowledge-sharing
We’re here to help you implement. Gatekeeping doesn’t help us help you.
Honest Communication
We strive for complete objectivity to act within our clients’ best interests. No BS, period.
Democratization of Cannabis
We do this for the love of the plant. Cannabis doesn’t belong to anyone.
Ethical Business
We want you to be as proud of your work as we are of ours. That means doing things the right way, every time, to ensure the longevity of our businesses as well as our planet.
Never Stop Learning
When you know what you don’t know, that’s a powerful place to be. While our expertise guides us, we’re always open to new perspective and understanding.
Health is Wealth
Our bodies don’t perform without proper care and nutrition. Neither do our plants. If we take care of ourselves the way we intend to care for our cannabis, we’ll build long-term habits that bear fruit over the long-term.
Who are we not?
Our success is your success. Our rule is absolutely no kickbacks for equipment selection or higher-than average yields. We don’t seek extra rewards for doing our job.
While we focus building long-term partnerships, we’re ultimately here to help, however long you need it.
When we work with you, we’re dedicating our team to your cultivation needs. When the phone rings, we pick up. When there’s a crisis, we’re on the next flight out. One thing we’re not doing is leaving you high and dry because we’ve overcommitted ourselves.
We respect the Bickel team and Jeremy; they’ve been a sounding board for ideas as we’ve expanded and grown the business. Bickel has helped with design, cultivation practices, and brain-storming discussions for our business.
Three words to describe our relationship with the Bickel team, specifically Jeremy: Reliable, Involved and Competent. We appreciate our partnership.”
—Anthony Cieslak, Good Day Farm
