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Awareness
Bold design, stories, merch, and local events to make men's mental health impossible to ignore.
One number • Two independent movements
Two paths.
Two paths.
One root: 143.
143 means I love you — one letter, four letters, three letters, a code for unconditional love. Two independent movements grew out of that same root. Project 143 tends people. 143 Genetics tends plants. Same care, two callings.
Independent movements, same founder, built on Ní Neart Go Cur Le Chéile — Irish for "there is no strength without unity."
PROJECT 143
143 GENETICS
The synergy
Same root. Different soil.
143 carries a lineage. Fred Rogers stepped on the scale to 143 pounds nearly every day of his adult life and called it his quiet, daily proof of "I love you" — one letter, four letters, three letters. We borrowed the math, not the man, and pointed it at two different kinds of care: one for people, one for plants.
143 Genetics and Project 143 are separately run, separately branded, and separately regulated where relevant — but they share a founder, a philosophy, and a number. Neither is a front for the other. Think of it as one household, two callings.
Tends the soul
Project 143
Men's mental health advocacy. A local-first brotherhood that makes it less daunting to ask for help, find a therapist, join a peer group, or check on the guy who's gone quiet. Awareness, connection, brotherhood, and giving — benefiting NAMI.
Tends the soil
143 Genetics
Connecticut craft genetics. Farm-to-table cultivation, collectible archive-grade strains, and a "new era prohibition" ethos — patience, preservation, and community over commerce. 21+. Nothing transacts here; the living archive lives at Chef Budz Genetix.
Cultivation is cultivation, whether it's a plant or a person. Speak up. Stay rooted. Grow slow.
Men's mental health advocacy • Local-first brotherhood
Speak Up. Stay Here. Build Brotherhood.
Project 143 helps men take the first step toward support without shame: find resources, join a community, share testimony, wear the message, and raise money benefiting NAMI. Men are not binary machines — strength exists on a scale, pain exists on a scale, and recovery exists on a scale. Project 143 makes space for that reality.
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Connection
Clear, low-friction paths to crisis lines, therapy, peer groups, and local support.
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Brotherhood
143 mentors build small local support circles and normalize honest conversation.
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Giving
Cover operating costs, then direct campaign and merch surplus toward NAMI-aligned support.
The 143 mentor network
Micro support systems: one mentor, one town.
Mentors aren't therapists. Their job is to listen first, reduce friction to real support, normalize honesty, and — once the model is proven — replicate it locally. Start in one area, document what works, let trusted mentors launch their own 143 circles.
Merch with a mission
Drop concept: "I Love You Means Everybody." Black heavyweight hoodies, sharp white typography, an electric 143 mark, small sleeve message: "Speak up. Stay here." Costs covered first, surplus donated, impact reported.
Stories make the silence crack
"I thought needing help meant I failed. Then I realized hiding it was what was destroying me."
— Anonymous supporter
Resources & giving
Donate to NAMI ↗
NAMI Connecticut support groups ↗
NAMI Connection ↗
NAMI men's mental health resources ↗
988 Lifeline ↗
Get involved
Join the community, become a mentor, partner, or ask about merch. This opens a ready-to-send email — replace with a real form backend (Hostinger Forms, Tally, Jotform) before full launch.
Connecticut craft genetics • Farm to table
New Era Prohibition.
143 Genetics is a small-batch Connecticut seed archive preserving rare and hard-to-find plant genetics as adult collectible, educational, and preservation-reference material. Farm to table, not factory to shelf. 21+. Nothing sells on this page — the living archive, invoice-request ordering, and drop calendar live at Chef Budz Genetix.
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Preservation
Rare lineage and breeder history documented and kept alive, not lost to a single bad season.
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Craft cultivation
Small runs, hand-tended, farm to table — not mass production chasing shelf space.
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Connecticut roots
Grown local, sold local-first, under New Era Prohibition — patience over hype.
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Community over commerce
Collectors and growers first. The archive exists to be shared with people who care, not flipped.
From seed to story
Grown slow. Documented in full.
Every listed cut comes with lineage, breeder history, batch documentation, origin notes, and provenance — the same records a collector would want for anything else worth preserving. What's growing right now: late-stage purple and gold phenotypes finishing out under natural light, cataloged one plant at a time.
- Adult collectible, archival, and preservation-reference purposes only
- No cultivation instructions, medical claims, or performance guarantees
- Invoice-only ordering — no payment captured on-site pending documentation review
- Square CBD/hemp compliance review on every listed item
The archive & the culture
"Farm to Table" and "New Era Prohibition" aren't taglines, they're the operating rules: grow what you'd want to smoke yourself, document it like it matters, and treat a seed line like something you inherited rather than something you own outright.
"Growing anything worth keeping takes the same thing a person does — patience, the right conditions, and someone willing to tend it when nobody's watching."
— 143 Genetics
Where to find it
Brand & wholesale inquiries
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