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Editor’s Letter

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HISTORY + CULTURE Sun Grown at Moon Made Tina Gordon sets standards at her farm

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Kiskanu’s Moment Bringing small farmers into big markets

TOURISM 26 The Grand Tour

On the road with

Humboldt Cannabis Tours ENVIRONMENT 34 Know Your Budtender

A Q&A with Humboldt

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FOOD + DRINK 39 An Offer They Couldn’t Refuse

Francis Ford Coppola collaborates

with Humboldt Brothers INNOVATION 45 Finding a Unicorn

Humboldt growers collaborate

in a quest to find superior

cannabis genetics 52 SERVICES ADVERTISEMENTS

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56 FARM & PRODUCT DIRECTORIES 64 ADVERTISER INDEX

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We might be biased but you can’t beat sun-

farm-to-joint experience, you needed a friend in the industry. But these days you can book a trip with Humboldt Cannabis Tours, the county’s first official guide. We’ll take you on a ride from rural roads and greenhouses to area dispensaries, stopping for a picnic among the redwoods along the way.

We’ll take you over to Moon Made Farms, too, for a visit with Tina Gordon, who’s setting the standard for natural farming practices that yield sun-grown craft cannabis you can feel good about.

Recently, other growers were throwing on lab coats and collaborating to get into the nitty-gritty of what gives a plant its particular smells, strength and yield. The story of the “phenotype mega hunt” takes you inside evaluating thousands of strains in search of thoroughbred stock — seeds and clones — with the goal of mapping their genetics. It’s a huge project that may change the way you look at that fancy flower in the dispensary case.

The science is pretty fascinating stuff. Still, we know what we have here in Humboldt earned its reputation through more than just skill and institutional knowledge — it’s also the people who raise it and the breathtaking place where it grows.

grown Humboldt cannabis, cultivated in one of the most beautiful spots on Earth by generations of folks who care about the region’s legacy. But don’t take it from us, listen to some hands-on experts. For this issue of Humboldt Cannabis Magazine, we talked to budtenders at local dispensaries to hear what they have to say about local weed and how to get the most out of it, whether you’re a longtime aficionado or just dipping into the waters for the first time. Trust them — they know their stuff.

Speaking of aficionados, you may have heard filmmaker and winemaker Francis Ford Coppola is getting into the cannabis business. We’ll introduce you to a pair of longtime friends running the farm Humboldt Brothers, which supplies the premium product that’s being marketed under the Coppola label with the same attention to terroir as wine. Of course, Coppola isn’t the only high-end outlet looking to our county for a taste of the good stuff. In this issue you’ll also meet local farmers-turned-manufacturers Gretchen and Jason Miller of Kiskanu, who share how they’re taking sustainably farmed, organic, sun-grown craft cannabis to markets in California, and hempderived CBD oils and treatments to Saks Fifth Avenue.

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Tina Gordon sets standards at her farm

By Gabrielle Gopinath Photographs by Amy Kumler

on Made DURING THE FIRST YEAR Tina

Gordon lived in Southern Humboldt and cultivated cannabis, she found herself “falling in love →

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“Have eyes on each plant every day.”

Previous page: Plants soaking up the Southern Humboldt sunshine.

Above: Tina Gordon in her office at Moon Made Farms.

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with cannabis — as a growing plant.” In the 10 years since, she says, “I’ve learned that cannabis is the most powerful plant on the planet; that cannabis is a dioecious plant that expresses in the female form.

The power of the plant comes from its female expression.”

Gordon owns and operates Moon Made Farms — a place she describes as being “2,100 feet in elevation and 33 miles from the ocean, in an oak grove,” where female energy has been finding expression for decades. Gordon’s previous lives as an independent filmmaker and a drummer in Los Angeles-area punk bands brought her into contact with the land’s previous owner: trailblazing Joani Hannan, a jazz drummer, band leader, gay club owner and “independent queer business person” who played with bands up and down the California coast from the 1940s through the ’50s. Gordon made a documentary about her life and Hannan became a mentor. Ultimately, Gordon took up stewardship and bought the Southern Humboldt property that had been Hannan’s homestead near the historic Bell Springs Road.

An enthusiastic advocate for sun-grown cannabis, Gordon makes a compelling case that growing outdoors is not only what’s best for the environment but what’s best for the plant. She cultivates full-season plants outdoors from seed.

Her farm name reflects her belief in natural farming methods that work with instead of against natural processes. “It’s about the place, it’s about the land, it’s about the terroir,” she explains. “I like to call what I do regenerating farming, as opposed to regenerative farming, because [farming] is an ongoing process. One of our sayings is: ‘Have eyes on each plant every day.’”

She stresses the importance of “integrating the native soil with inputs from the land” and farming creatively, adapting techniques to site as needed. “We mulch with wood chips from the native tanoaks, in addition to other inputs. We use a lot of decomposing forest leaf matter and we make compost tea from native plants.” During the rainy winters, a natural pond catches and stores the water that will irrigate plants in summertime, when afternoon temperatures can top 100 degrees.

The importance Gordon places on regional terroir has led her to adapt permaculture techniques, allowing local soils to find expression. Some cannabis plants at Moon Made Farms are grown in a hugelkultur, a type of compost bed in which large amounts of organic matter and soil amendments are added to a base of native soil, creating a deep bank of nutrient-dense humus that needs several years to reach fruition. The German term “translates, I believe, into ‘above-ground bed,’” Gordon says, but she customized the practice for her farm. “What I actually did was dig down into the earth, making not raised beds but beds that were sunk into the ground, which helped them retain moisture. The wood chips and the straw and the organic material and whatever else is inside this hugelkultur breaks down slowly over time, and that decomposition helps encourage the living soil, so it’s feeding itself — amazing!”

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ers’ Alliance, a group of scientists, stakeholders and supporters that lobbies to promote sun-grown cannabis and to educate farmers and the public about best agricultural practices. The group is currently working to research and develop sun-grown industry standards, defining best practices to reduce ecological impact. “One important way of doing this involves working to develop appellations of origin," she says.

When the state legalized recreational use of cannabis in 2018, new regulations included a mandate for the California Department of Food and Agriculture “to establish a process by which licensed cultivators may establish appellations for standards, practices, and varietals applicable to cannabis grown in a certain geographic area in California by January, 2021.” Many Americans become familiar with the concept of appellation through exposure to the nationalized French system of appellations d’origine controllée (AOC), used in marketing and packaging to indicate agricultural products produced in a discrete geographic area with a distinct character and/or regionally distinctive approach to cultivation. California’s appellation system for cannabis is likely to be modeled after that approach. Gordon is currently involved in developing those standards for sun-grown cannabis from her region Palo Verde — a sun-drenched inland tranche of the Emerald Triangle located some 26 miles east from the Pacific Ocean as the crow flies and more than twice that to drive, due to the rugged terrain.

Cannabis legalization has posed Humboldt cultivators with

challenges, notably the emergence of a competitive market that is not only statewide but national and even international, in the case of CBD-dominant strains. In this climate, Gordon cites “the need to set the Emerald Triangle apart from massive industrial grows in other parts of the state and country and world.” She anticipates the emergence of “a global cannabis market larger than any that’s been seen before,” at the same time acknowledging that the era of "Big Cannabis" is set about with risks. When the plant is cultivated on millions of acres in California’s Central Valley in years to come, clones selected for speedy growth and ease of processing are likely to be cultivated in preference to those exhibiting uncommon genetics, exotic scents or unique terpene profiles.

Many Humboldt cultivators were like independent artisans, Gordon muses; if they were to be driven out of business, we might lose “the thing that’s so unique and precious and special about the cannabis that comes from this area.” And “there is a lot of gorgeous flower that is unique to this place — flowers that have been naturalized to this place,” by virtue of having been grown here for generations. Gordon believes it is vitally important to preserve “the craft experience — the way that small producers raise plants and grow plants, and cure flower, and take the time.”

There is an irony implicit in Humboldt’s history with cannabis cultivation to date: The county’s most celebrated export has often been grown indoors using practices that minimize the crop’s con-

“There is a lot of gorgeous flower that is unique to this place.”

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nection to place, even as they maximize its carbon footprint. While many people will tell you that the O.G. in the name of the famed indica strain O.G. Kush, a regional classic, stands for “Ocean Grown,” whatever unique properties the California sun or the ocean fog may have to impart have been lost on the millions of indoor-grown plants from that strain and others, which have never been exposed to these factors. Until recently, most consumers have not had access to information that would allow them to distinguish between a flower that has been ocean grown in a meaningful sense versus one that has never seen the outside of a dank apartment.

Indoor cultivation was an inadvertent creation of the black market. While sustaining cannabis plants indoors with full-spectrum lights and fans is one of the most energyintensive, environmentally unsustainable methods of growing imaginable, the cannabis plant’s longtime illegal status made it difficult for many wouldbe cultivators, especially those in urban or suburban locations, to grow naturally. With the advent of legalization, that state of affairs is beginning to change.

Gordon and other cultivators are betting that once discerning consumers understand what ‘sun grown’ means and how cannabis produced this way is different from other options, both in terms of flavor profile and environmental impact, the case in favor of sun-grown will make itself.

Brokers specializing in sun-grown cannabis like Flow Kana and Willie’s Reserve have emerged as farmers’ crucial allies in this new landscape, changing the game by providing consumers with information about where the bud they are about to smoke was sourced and how it was grown. “Before very recently, when somebody bought a bag of grass they had no idea what they were smoking.

Now, you walk into a dispensary and you can ask for sun-grown,” says Gordon.

“You need to know your farmer,” Gordon says.

“Where was the cannabis grown? How was it grown? It’s so important to be able to answer these questions. Not only is it a substance that’s going into our bodies but we’re also ingesting something that alters consciousness. Unlike a tomato or a head of lettuce, cannabis is something we’re inviting into our bodies and our minds and our spirits.”

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distinctive is her focus on cultivating CBD-intensive and CBD-balanced cannabis strains. Since CBD has no psychoactive properties, it has a different legal status from THC-intensive cannabis.

In December, the United States Congress passed the 2018 Farm Bill, which legalized CBD nationwide; if cannabis contains less than 0.3 percent THC, and therefore doesn’t get you high, it is legal to cultivate it, sell it and ship it across state lines.

Gordon is one of a minority of Humboldt cultivators specializing in CBD-balanced and CBD-intensive strains. “We’re doing a lot of high-CBD and balanced CBD cultivars,” she says.“We’re doing a Harley Sue/Black Dog cross called A Dog Named Sue (a genetic by Biovortex). ... We’re doing Lunar Bouquet, a Moon Made Farms-developed cultivar that’s 2 to 1 CBD/THC. We also have one called Cosmic, that’s a Harley Sue crossed with a Jack Herer.”

It’s safe to say that most Humboldt growers have been focused on working with THC-intensive strains to date. Judges of major cannabis competitions fixate, predictably if perhaps myopically, on the THC high, rewarding strains with jacked terpenes and correspondingly colorful psychoactive effects. That being said, the balanced strains Gordon favors might well resonate with cannabis users whose preferences have been underrepresented to date. (Just check out any dispensary to witness the titter-inducing spectacle presented by white-collar professionals and elderly medical patients shopping strains with names like Hippie Crippler and AK-47 that were obviously named by and for the males-under-25 demographic.)

“There’s been this emphasis on high THC percentages that doesn’t resonate with me personally,” Gordon said. “I wasn’t seeing either the balanced cultivars or the lower-THC cultivars in the marketplace. I prefer consuming high-CBD and balanced-CBD cultivars, whether by smoking, vaping or tincture — that’s what works for me.

“I have met so many women, in particular, who have experienced anxiety issues with usage of high-THC strains, and especially with indoor-grown high-THC strains. So I think providing balanced cultivars could do a lot for a lot of people.”

How is cultivating for high CBD yields different for cultivating for high THC? I asked. “There are some different growing practices involved,” Gordon said, “but most importantly, there’s a different intention. The intention is to provide a flower that has a balanced and uplifting effect, that is life enhancing. We’re really interested in helping to improve people’s quality of life.”

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Kiskanu’s Moment IT SEEMS LIKE A LONG ROAD from the hills of Humboldt County to a pop-up boutique in New York City’s Saks Fifth Avenue department store but that’s the path the folks at Kiskanu have taken. While the husband and wife founders of this family-owned cannabis and CBD product company still have their hands in soil via a farm partnership, they’ve taken their combined 20 years of industry knowledge and a shared belief in sustainability, and put them into a curated line of cannabis and CBD products.

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quantity. The remodeled one-story in Eureka, California, is now the compact, humming hive where Gretchen and Jason Miller, and their staff of seven produce small-batch cannabis and hemp-derived CBD products by hand.

“We infuse the oils, we pour the jars, we label it,” says Gretchen, who’s proud of keeping the work local and under their control. “We work with local extractors to extract our flower and get it back to us” to process, she adds.

The Millers come by their stringent rules for sourcing organic, sustainable, sun-grown cannabis honestly, since they started out as farm-

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“We infuse the oils, we pour the jars, we label it.”

ers. “We have always been cannabis advocates and users,” says Jason, who notes the couple has been involved with legal farming since the days of the 215 card. As legalization drew near, they threw their hats in the ring and brought their grow into compliance for recreational marijuana.

Gretchen is also an herbalist and a cannabis therapy consultant. “I’ve been making salves and bath bombs, oils and tinctures for years,” she says. Then she took a series of intensive classes on medicinal cannabis. “I realized how powerful the medicine can be and how it can help so many things.” She began incorporating cannabis into her remedies and received great feedback, finding she could also be helpful to people who were 22

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new to cannabis or preferred not to smoke. There, Gretchen saw an opportunity to combine herbal medicine and cannabis for natural remedies and treatments.

In 2015, the Millers started Kiskanu, named after the ancient Sumerian name for the “tree of life” growing in paradise but also as an echo of Sanskrit and Persian words for hemp. The aim is to “be a vehicle for small craft cannabis farms,” according to Jason. Everything that goes into the company’s prettily packaged pre-rolls and Black Label Flower is sourced from “local farmers we’ve known forever,” says Gretchen. “One of our goals is to help farmers who have really nice product but may not have the ability to market

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or brand and we want to help them with a path to market. … We’re trying to support each other and bring each other up. We’re always looking for local partnerships and farms to work with.”

They started their skincare and body line with what Gretchen refers to as “whole plant medicine” — cannabis products that keep cannabinoids intact with THC, though Gretchen says most people don’t experience psychoactive effects via topicals beyond some calming. The Cannabis Skin Rub blends hemp oil with St. John’s wort, a long-standing herbal remedy for muscle soreness, as well as beeswax and relaxing lavender. There’s a lightweight cannabis face oil made from cold-pressed, virgin, organic sunflower, argan, coconut and jojoba oils, along with a hit of rose geranium, which is traditionally prized for its healing properties. The rose geranium also doubles down on cannabinoids’ anti-inflammatory effects. The same moisturizing and relaxing compounds go into the Intimacy Oil, which can be used as a naturally derived personal lubricant and a massage oil.

Kiskanu also has a hemp-derived CBD line that is THC-free, so the natural benefits to your skin and muscles come without the possibility of a buzz. It’s these oils and rubs that will be showcased in the Salon Project on the seventh floor of Saks Fifth Avenue’s flagship store in Manhattan through the summer. Already on the shelves of a few East Coast boutiques and preparing for another release the Millers can’t talk about yet, Kiskanu is scaled up and ready to meet demand across the country. Other upcoming launches include CBD manicure packages at Vanity Project nail salon in New York City and the fair at the Art Basel event in Miami Beach this December.

The Millers are excited to not only bring Kiskanu products to new venues and consumers, but to introduce the best of Humboldt’s organic, sun-grown cannabis. “We were farmers,” says Gretchen, “and we believe that’s how it should be grown.”

Jennifer Fumiko Cahill is the editor of Humboldt Cannabis Magazine.

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HUMBOLDT COUNTY is one of the most beautiful regions in the country, with a rich history, though exploring its cannabis culture can take legwork and locals haven’t always been excited to show it off. But the Adult Use of Marijuana Act has opened up a side of Humboldt that is ripe for exploration through visitor-friendly tours that highlight the best the area has to offer.

Matt Kurth’s Humboldt Cannabis Tours is taking full advantage and offering something that isn’t available anywhere else. Indeed, there are cannabis tours offered in the Bay Area and Southern California — a few even travel to Humboldt — but their scope is necessarily limited in a couple ways. “When you look at what most cannabis tours are — you go to a dispensary, maybe you go to an indoor grow and look through a wall, and then you smoke a bunch of weed in a van,” Kurth says. “So visiting the farms is what sets me apart, and also just being in Humboldt and having that authentic story.”

Kurth is no stranger to the tour industry. Along with his degree in Recreation Administration from Chico State, Kurth has amassed a decade of experience in guided river tours. “Backpacking, rafting, kayaking, climbing ... I added it up once and it was more than a whole year of my life spent on the back of a boat.” One evening in 2015, after a particularly strenuous day of rapids and falls, an idea struck him: “I had this education and experience in tourism. I knew about weed, I’d been in the industry for real. So for me it made sense — weed tours.”

For the next few weeks, the thought wouldn’t leave him. “I didn’t know it, but this is what I’d been building to my whole life.” He penciled out the numbers and it all seemed financially viable.

It would be three long years of assembling the necessary legal components to make his business a reality, a process that was inherently more difficult by virtue of being the first established cannabis tour in Humboldt. While frustrating for him at the time, in retro-

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spect he’s proud to have been the jumpstarter. “Someone had to go through it,” he says.

Kurth ran 60 tours last year and plans to far outpace that this year. Most grow operations run on limited schedules so he’s created dispensary-only tours in the winter and is always adding to his roster of greenhouses, nurseries and dispensaries. “They give me great service and I bring people in,” he says.

The trips typically start around 9 a.m., with participants convening in a spacious, 12-seat van. First stop is a local greenhouse. On a recent tour, we visited a grow just south of Eureka, a project called Hygrow at Riverbar Farms. There, Kurth and Bryan Robinson, one of the farm managers, describe Hygrow’s infrastructure, which is designed for harvest all year round — six turns a year. Entering the farm you see peaked-roof greenhouses that cover 30,000 square feet (just a fraction of the 10-acre property) and are designed specifically for cannabis. The layout allows farmers to separate plants in different states of maturation.

The entire operation inside is streamlined to include a number of modern technical innovations. The clones — about 55 plants representing 20 strains from Wedding Cake to Magic Melons to Purple Squirts — are all lined in bottomless beds so they grow into the native soil. A light deprivation curtain can be moved and customized for the needs of specific strains and the “wet walls” act as a massive swamp cooler that harnesses evaporating water and recirculates it with fans or the natural outdoor breeze. Robinson demonstrates for us how he can control each component from a panel, as well as via smartphone or tablet. Everything serves to provide the most energy-efficient process possible, down to the food-grade plastic, mostly natural lighting, organically based nutrients and complete absence of pesticides. (Though getting the capital “O” organic stamp on any grow will have to wait for federal legalization.)

After the greenhouse, we head south toward Garberville. Early on, Kurth tries to gauge the group’s overall cannabis expertise. “Most people aren’t weed nerds,” he says. “Most people on my tours don’t know that there’s male and female plants. Most people don’t know about the light cycle. Almost nobody knows about terpenes.” Once he gets an idea of how cannabis savvy everyone is, he can tailor individual tours to suit each group.

There are plenty of relevant landmarks to point out just off the highway — a number of farms, companies that make extraction equipment, concentrate manufacturers, a “bud and breakfast” — but the majority of Kurth’s interpretive narration surrounds Humboldt’s history and fame/notoriety. Again, depending on the group’s knowledge, he’ll chronicle the eras ranging from the back-to-the-landers all the way to present-day legalization. “I want people to know why Humboldt’s Humboldt ... because [it]’s hard to see it for what it is.”

Halfway to Garberville, we dip onto the Avenue of the Giants. A good portion of people who attend his Humboldt Cannabis Tours have never seen the redwoods — to only see them from a car window would be quite the missed opportunity. So he pulls off at Williams Grove and supplies the group with an al fresco lunch of sandwiches from the North Coast Co-op and a spread of local fruits and veggies, and Humboldt Chocolate to be enjoyed in the shade of the ancient conifers. Kurth takes the opportunity to weave a short history of the trees themselves into his larger narrative about the area.

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bis seeds and sell to licensed growers 1,000 plants at a time. Mikal Jakubal, one-fifth of Plant Humboldt’s five-man operation, is on hand to provide details. The tracking of the plants is impressive in its detail. “Each tag has the strain name, where the seed came from, name of the nursery and a barcode,” explains Kurth. “In theory, you can connect a jar of weed all the way back to [the original] plant.”

The common refrain at Plant Humboldt is “trial-and-error.” Positive results can come from an ultra-concerted effort and hyper-specific analysis, but, mutations in a plant could just as easily come from a random occurrence — perhaps a neighbor’s pollen that happened to blow over. And they’re just as likely to use a seed that was placed by accident, let it grow and see what happens. More systematic are the farming practices to which the nursery adheres, including an irrigation system that pulls from a pond on the property and drains back into Redwood Creek, or its prescription for local custom-blend soil.

We cap things off at a dispensary, a logical endpoint. Proper Wellness is Kurth’s current go-to but he’ll curate a tour based on special requests. “Some people will be like, ‘I wanna buy the cheapest weed,’” he says. “‘All right, well, this is the spot.’ Other people will say, ‘I wanna talk to someone about my elbow pain.’ All right, well,

“In theory, you can connect a jar of weed all the way back to [the original] plant.”

Above: Matt Kurth takes a group around Plant Humboldt.

Opposite: Checking out the goods at Hygrow.

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“What we do best is growing the best weed in the whole world.”

we’re going to the HPRC.’” If someone’s itching to get to a dispensary earlier in the day, he’ll even swing over to One Log House, the popular photo-op cabin made out of a single redwood log and the adjacent dispensary.

Once a budtender is available, Kurth works with them to give everyone a thorough idea of the selection available these days. “I’ll usually ask, ‘What’s your favorite? Show me your most expensive weed, show me your cheapest weed, show me some indoor, show me some mixed-light, show me some outdoor,’” he says. “I like people to see, what does the top shelf look like next to the bottom shelf?

What does indoor next to outdoor look like?” He also likes to give a sense of the variety of products out there, especially for those who’ve never heard of wax, shatter or THC powder.

In more ways than one, Kurth’s tours resemble something you might seek out in Napa or Sonoma, especially once you get to smelling (and most likely sampling shortly thereafter). And while Kurth presents as a tour guide, he could just as soon pass for an unpretentious ambassador to an area sometimes reluctant to step into the spotlight. “You’ll never be able to grow Whitethorn weed anywhere else but Whitethorn, he says, adding that he looks forward to Humboldt establishing official appellation, like the Champagne region of France. “I think that’s going to allow us to really show what we do best, and what we do best is growing the best weed in the whole world.”

Sam Leishman is a filmmaker, writer and factotum for the North Coast Journal.

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A Q&A with Humboldt County’s best

How is Humboldt County cannabis different from cannabis grown in other places?

By Cassie Curatolo

“The knowledge and care that goes into it. … If you buy Humboldtgrown cannabis, you know where it's from, you know its going to be free of pesticides, microbials and mold.”

— Jessica Hemker

Illustrations by Jacqui Langeland

“The history, environment, local culture and the people involved.

Customers are conscious about packaging. … In general, growers are concerned about the environment. In Humboldt County, everything is rooted in community.”

— Timolin Mahan “Humboldt cannabis is grown with love and care.

They take time with each plant, unlike the big mega grows. It tastes better, fuller bodied. It has a better nose and is cured well. It’s generally more organic than the cannabis from other places.

Humboldt farmers use alternatives to pesticides and make sure it’s the cleanest. They have high standards for themselves. People have been doing it for generations. They are experts.”

— Savannah Snow

C.J. Balangue at Proper Wellness

Proper Wellness, a small farmfocused dispensary, opened on Feb. 21 with C.J there budtending.

Before joining the team at Proper Wellness, he worked for dispensaries in the Bay Area for more than three years. He has also been an activist with Veteran’s for Cannabis, where he advocated for access to cannabis as medicine.

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“It’s generally accepted as the best in the world. The industry here is more community driven, whereas in the Bay Area, it was profit-focused. Humboldt County cannabis really sells itself. Most customers are not local, they come here for local product.

With Humboldt County flower, in general, you experience everything that went into it.

People know that their cannabis comes from a place it’s truly cared for.”

— C.J. Balangue

“Love and Passion. People here have fought for this for so long. We’re known for it. Its not just a cash grab.”

— Brianna Chapman

“Cannabis is the soul of Humboldt County. Nowhere in the U.S is as accepting, and it empowers people to take control of their own health. We also have experienced growers, so more knowledge is going in to the product.”

— Michelle Seelye

What do you wish customers knew before coming into a dispensary?

“Don’t worry so much about sativa/indica/ hybrid. Intuit the medicine — smell it, look at it. That will give you an idea of what you want when. That’s how plants work, they’ll tell you.”

— Timolin Mahan “Things have changed over the years. We have so much more than just weed. If one thing doesn’t work, keep trying. Keep an open mind. It’s not just young kids coming in, it’s a whole range of customers, every gender, every age. Don’t be afraid to ask questions.

— Jessica Hemker

“Never be afraid to ask questions.

Have a positive outlook. Take inventory of your body.”

— Michelle Seelye

Michelle Seelye at HPRC Arcata

A budtender for more than six years with Humboldt Patient Resource Center, Michelle began her career in the industry working on farms both in Humboldt County and out of state. She’s a certified herbalist and HPRC’s lead budtender and is well-loved by regular customers.

“Know the baseline of what you’re looking for, whether it be certain results or how you’d like to consume cannabis. Take notes, bring a pen and paper. Keep track of what you’ve tried or like. It really helps the budtenders. Also, be comfortable, take your time, ask questions. Don’t ever leave not knowing about your product or feeling like you’ve been rushed.”

— Savannah Snow

Jessica Hemker

“Don’t be afraid … budtenders and staff are always welcoming and friendly.”

— C.J. Balangue “It’s not a used car lot, there’s no pressure to buy. We want to break everything down and make sure you’re comfortable and happy.”

— Brianna Chapman

at Satori Wellness

How do you feel about budtending or about budtending in Humboldt County, in particular?

“I get to help expand how wellness is defined.”

— Jessica Hemker

Making her entre to the industry in Southern California dispensaries, Jessica has been budtending since 2013. A former skate company, Satori Wellness opened its doors for cannabis sales in 2018 and Jessica was there to greet the first customers.

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“I’m here for the communal aspect and because cannabis is medicine that hasn’t been treated as such.

Timolin Mahan at Pacific Paradise

Before working as a budtender, Timolin worked on local cannabis farms for three years, giving her insight into various aspects of the industry.

A head shop and disc golf supply for years, Pacific Paradise officially opened as a dispensary on April 20 with Timolin behind the counter.

I love feeling like I’m giving people medicine

and I’m stoked about that every day.”

— Timolin Mahan “It’s refreshing. Brands are people here in Humboldt. In the Bay Area, people want names. Here, people want stories about who grows their weed. In other places, you only get to meet brand ambassadors. But here, you get to talk to owners one-on-one.”

— C.J Balangue “We love starting from scratch with people. As a budtender, empathy is so important. We have the opportunity to change people’s minds about cannabis.”

— Brianna Chapman “We’re all about giving back to the community — and that means more than free swag or block parties. We want to cultivate wellbeing, and that’s why HPRC offers free yoga, tai chi and selfhelp classes at The Connection in Eureka. … I’m proud to work for HPRC. When I walk out of the house, I represent a company. I go out of my way to show integrity.”

— Michelle Seelye

Which local products do you recommend?

“Talking Trees’ hash collabs and rosin, Space Gems edibles and Papa & Barkley salves.”

— Jessica Hemker

Savannah Snow

at The Humboldt County Collective A woman-operated dispensary, THCC is owned by a grandmother/ granddaughter duo. Budtender and buying manager, Savanah, has been involved with the business since 2012.

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“Humboldt Terp Council’s concentrates and flower.

HPRC’s live resin and Sweet ReLeaf’s topicals.”

— Michelle Seelye “Humboldt Seed Company’s Blueberry Muffin flower.

It’s fruity and has great eye appeal,

nice color, flavor, smell and structure. It literally smells like a blueberry muffin. Space Gems edibles. They’re vegan and don’t use artificial color.

Sun Kissed live resins, they’re clean, have higher potency and have good prices for top-tier products. And Native Humboldt Farms’ salves.

— Savannah Snow

Brianna Chapman

at The Heart of Humboldt

Involved in the industry since 2016, Brianna got her start in dispensaries in Sacramento. When she came to Humboldt to attend HSU, she got a job at Heart of Humboldt. Now, she’s the dispensary’s floor manager and lead budtender.

“Our own in-house products. We always recommend Space Gems as a starter edible. Papa & Barkely tinctures and topicals, UpNorth products —

they have an amazing staff, it sets them apart from other top shelf.

” — Brianna Chapman

“Eel River cartridges and vape pens … they hit smooth and are discreet and long-lasting. And Humboldt Farms’ Super Lemon Jack Gio G pen.

It helps you focus and channel your creativity.”

— Timolin Mahan “Space Gems edibles. Errl Hill’s concentrates are high quality and affordable. Humboldt Terp Council’s live resins are consistent in quality. And Humboldt’s Finest, which has 16 strains of live resin.”

— C.J. Balangue

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hotel ownership just didn’t cut it for Francis Ford Coppola. Now he is venturing into the budding California cannabis industry with the help of Humboldt County farmers.

In 2018, Coppola launched Sana, a project that seeks to produce a high-quality line of cannabis. Given Humboldt County’s reputation as the world’s cannabis epicenter and the distinct terrior (the combination of environmental factors including soil, water, climate and farming practices that affect not only how well the plant grows, but how the resulting fruit or flower smells and tastes) of its products, it was important that the cannabis come from the region. According to Kathleen Murphy, Sana’s vice president of innovation, Coppola believes that “just like some of the best grapes come from Napa and Sonoma, the best cannabis comes from the Emerald Triangle.”

In addition to top-grade bud, Coppola was interested in sustainable, ethically grown cannabis. Cue Humboldt Brothers. Founded by longtime friends Johnny Diem (CEO) and Brett Todoroff (chief farming officer), Humboldt Brothers and its knowledgeable, dedicated team have actualized a shared vision of sustainable agriculture. Operating under the philosophy “farm to flower,” Humboldt Brothers uses what Diem calls a “new spin on old-school farming techniques.” Lead by head of cultivation Nate Johnson, the company is paving the way for high quality, sun-grown, biodynamically farmed cannabis by planting in correlation to moon cycles, harvesting rainwater, utilizing alternative energy and using all-natural pest management techniques.

Though cannabis grown indoors or in greenhouses is popular with consumers, Diem believes that there will be a “renaissance of sungrown cannabis.” Like grapes, cannabis carries a “sense of place” derived from the water, climate and soil, which give it a unique taste and smell that he says indoor-grown cannabis generally lacks. Indoor cannabis has the innate benefit of looking pretty without having to battle the elements; indoor buds are pristine, sparkly with resin and sometimes higher in THC. But there can be downsides. For instance, without exposure to natural predators, indoor plants are left prone to infestations of mites. This is often corrected using pesticides. And regardless of how pretty the final product may be, Diem believes that “the goal should be about how it

“The goal should be how it makes you feel.”

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Brett Todoroff, left; Johnny Deim, right. Courtesy of Humboldt Brothers.

makes you feel” and that putting in the effort to do it right is worth it.

After an extensive search to find the right producer, Coppola caught wind of Humboldt Brothers from a mutual contact in Napa. At this point, Coppola had yet to find a producer that offered the right product to fit his vision or that operated their business in a compatible way.

Likewise, Humboldt Brothers turned away what Diem called, “other high-end companies that just weren’t a good fit.” When they met, Coppola pitched his idea and was able to sample various flowers to choose exactly what he wanted to include in his line of luxury cannabis. From their partnership, the Grower’s Series was born.

The final product is a variety box containing a selection of three different types of organic cannabis (one indica, one sativa and one hybrid), as well as rolling papers, a small pipe and matches. All of this is housed in a bottle-shaped tin labeled with the famous Coppola name and the respective “vintage.” The package is perfect for the cannabis-curious and for those looking to explore some of the best of what is available in California.

The Grower’s Series is a nod to the parallels between wine and cannabis. Murphy believes that consumers’ familiarity with wine may offer a bridge to cannabis consumption and tourism.

There are still no official appellations, or geographical growing areas, recognized by the government for cannabis. But the California Department of Food and Agriculture hopes to be able to start approving appellations by 2021, drawing yet another link between the cannabis and wine industries, and, of course, creating a host of opportunities for Humboldt County to officially establish itself as the “Napa of cannabis.”

Humboldt County has long been considered a leader in California’s cannabis production and the recognition of Humboldt Brothers’ work by a cultural icon like Coppola is a step toward destigmatizing the cannabis industry and the region that depends upon it. As Diem commented, the collaboration is “not just about Humboldt Brothers — it’s about Humboldt County.”

The Grower’s Series is available online. Find more information at www.humboldtbrothers.com.

Erin Young is a wine educator, consultant and Wine & Spirit Education Trust student. She lives in Eureka.

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Humboldt growers collaborate in a quest to find superior cannabis genetics Story and Photos by Thadeus Greenson

IT’S A CLOUDLESS late September day at the

Humboldt Seed Co. near Orleans, which sits tucked above the Klamath River in the eastern-most stretches of Humboldt County. As a small group walks up a hill, past a vegetable garden and a small creek, the farm’s main cannabis cultivation site comes into view, with large →

A flowering cannabis plant at Humboldt Seed Co.’s farm near Orleans.

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plants in full bloom, their colas stretching toward the sky and their pungent scent filling the air.

But this isn’t the typical grow scene. Instead of hundreds and hundreds of identical plants — grown from clones or seedlings designed to produce indistinguishable cannabis flowers of the same strain — virtually no two plants at the site are the same. Instead, the garden is a showcase of cannabis diversity. Tall, spindly plants intermix with short, squat ones. The plants’ foliage varies from deep purples and seaweed greens to almost mossy, fluorescent chartreuse. The buds range in size from footballs to golf balls and their scents cross the spectrum from vibrant fruits and florals to biting odors of cheese and gasoline. Even the plants’ origins are wildly diverse. Some were grown from seeds long tucked away in sock drawers and hidden compartments, or brought back from Jamaica, while others are crosses or modifications of popular strains.

It’s a giant, raw cannabis buffet.

The garden, Humboldt Seed Co. owner and founder Nat Pennington explains, is one of the centerpieces in a massive, collaborative effort dubbed the “phenotype mega hunt,” in which Pennington and his cohorts are studying 10,000 different cannabis plants with the aim of finding a few “unicorns.” Indeed, the vast majority of these plants — 99.5 percent — will be crossed off the list and discarded, as the goal of the hunt is to comb through all this genetic variation to find the truly unique, whether it be a flavor profile, unusually high THC and CBD content, robust yields or, ideally, some combination thereof. These 50 or so plants will then be used to clone, breed and — ultimately — create seed stock.

Joining Pennington in the day’s efforts are Daniel Hendricks and Travis Poe of HendRx Farm, a cannabis clone nursery based in McKinleyville. Each has a three-ring binder filled with scoring sheets, which they will use to grade the plants across a variety of categories on a scale of one to 10. They’ll log the plants’ identification numbers, then judge their scents — both in strength and aromatics — flower colors, vigor, disease resistance and the density of their trichomes, those little crystals found on cannabis flowers that house much of the plants’ cannabinoids, terpenes and flavonoids (or, as Pennington dumbs it down for a reporter, “the little doohickys that have all the good stuff in them.”)

There’s a glee evident in the air as the judges go about their task. One comes across a Trainwreck plant and remarks on how all of Humboldt County smelled like this not long ago, back when it was the “it” strain everyone was growing.

“That’s so gassy,” Poe remarks, after taking a deep sniff from another plant’s bud, explaining it has that quintessential “diesel” smell.

Hendricks, meanwhile, is sizing up a plant in the next row. His gloved hands gently pull a bud open and he inhales deeply through his nose.

“Wow,” he says. “That’s just got the household cleaner smell. I just want to wash my clothes in it and walk around.”

After a couple hours of smell and eye tests, the trio huddle around a folding table set up in the garden area. On it sits a portable liquid chromatograph that Pennington uses to conduct field potency tests that allow him, within about 15 minutes, to learn the THC and CBD content of a given bud. Each of the three men has brought back a couple of samples from the field, and Pennington sets about meticulously weighing them out, cutting them up and 46

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Humboldt Seed Co. owner and founder Nat Pennington smells a cannabis flower as a part of the phenotype mega hunt in 2018.

“When you combine all these things — the phenotype, the chemotype and the genotype — and you see something that comes out wonderful, that’s called a dreamotype.”

placing them in test tubes with a solvent solution that will then be fed into the machine.

Pennington explains that the phenotype hunt is one leg of the stool — the one that allows cannabis experts to judge the plant based on its observables. The other legs are chemotype and genotype testing, which in turn allow them to see the exact chemical makeup of the plant (ie., just how much of the marketable measurables like THC and CBD content it has) and map its genetics through DNA sequencing.

“When you combine all these things — the phenotype, the chemotype and the genotype — and you see something that comes out wonderful, that’s called a dreamotype ... but that’s pretty cheesy,” Pennington says.

The unicorn hunt’s roots stretch deep. Pennington, after all, has a background in fisheries conservation with Klamath Riverkeeper and the Salmon River Restoration Council and was involved in writing the grant that ultimately helped determine through DNA testing that the spring Chinook is a distinct species from its fall-run counterparts. But this incarnation of the hunt seems to have begun in earnest a handful of years HUMBOLDT CANNABIS

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Clockwise from top left: Skyler Palmer, head of cultivation at HendRx Farm, looks on as Humboldt Seed Co. founder Nat Pennington prepares a cannabis sample for testing; a sample is weighed out to ensure consistent results; Pennington (center) stands with HendRx Farms owner Daniel Hendricks (left) and Palmer as they celebrate the fruits of the 2018 phenotype mega hunt.

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ago when Pennington reached out to HendRx farms to make an unusual order. Typically, the nursery serves commercial customers whose orders take a certain uniformity. For example, they need 600 clones of OG Kush or Girl Scout Cookie that they aim to cultivate to bring to market as a single batch. But Pennington wanted something much different.

“Nat called and wanted to order 10 of everything,” Hendricks recalls with a laugh.

The pair met in McKinleyville some time later and hit it off.

Pennington, who’s been breeding cannabis since 1999 and launched the Humboldt Seed Co. in 2001, had released a wildly popular strain — Blueberry Muffin — the year before. Pennington had crossed a potent purple strain with The Raz, a strain known for its raspberry flavor, back in 2008 and one of the pairings offspring had the unique phenotype of smelling almost exactly like a blueberry muffin. After coining the name, it took Pennington a couple of years of further breeding work to create the strain and a consistent seed stock that could guarantee someone buying a Blueberry Muffin seed could grow a plant with the desired characteristics. The strain blew up and is now planted worldwide.

And Pennington had the foresight to license the strain, having found an old licensing agreement for Honeycrisp apples and modified it for cannabis, meaning he received — or was due — a small licensing fee for every clone sold from California dispensaries.

When Pennington and Hendricks sat down, Pennington had another creation he was really excited about — Pineapple Upside Down Cake, a cross between Pineapple Trainwreck and Cookie Monster — that had been the result of another mini phenotype hunt. The trouble was that Pennington only had a single plant with the phenotype profile he wanted and it was struggling.

He ended up handing the plant off to the folks at HendRx, who ultimately turned that one sickly plant into thousands of clones, which have now, in turn, spawned tens of thousands.

“It was beautiful,” Hendricks says. “We were sold out months in advance and watched as it traveled throughout the state and then back to Humboldt.”

Through the success of Pineapple Upside Down Cake and a mutual love of genetics and breeding, a deep partnership was formed

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between Humboldt Seed Co. and HendRx, with both companies feeling an acute sense of urgency to seize Humboldt County’s place amid the burgeoning recreational cannabis market in California.

Pennington says he received advice some years ago that really stuck with him: “Don’t assume that the holy grail of weed is already here and that you just need to stabilize it,” he recalls. “Get out there, get creative and be an artist.”

The idea stuck and, through the success of his two small-scale phenotype hunts and his collaborations with HendRx Farms and Dark Heart Nursery in the Bay Area, the vision for a massive, collaborative hunt took hold.

“I knew somebody was going to do this and that somebody was going to do it publicly, so it just had to be us,” Pennington says.

Hendricks agrees Humboldt County is the natural home for such an effort.

“What happens here in the cannabis industry echoes out,” he says. “We are the epicenter. We are the Silicon Valley of cannabis. We started businesses in our garages ... and we have the deepest population of cannabis genes on the planet.

Nat had this vision and it was about seeing all of Humboldt collaborate on a project of historic significance.”

Ultimately, they brought in a host of partners, including Happy Dream Farms, Blessed Coast Farm, Humboldt County Indoors, Kind Peoples, Outliers Collective, South Ridge Farms and others, and everyone brought whatever unique cannabis genetics they had to the table, whether they be unique strain crosses or seeds long tucked away that had come to take on an almost mythic quality. But the partnership also demanded a lot of sacrifice, in both labor and space.

First and foremost, participating farms were agreeing to give up a portion of their cultivation space to grow plants that would likely never make it to market. Due to state testing requirements and market forces, it isn’t practical for a farm to grow 100 different unique plants with the aim of harvesting a saleable product, as each unique plant would have to be tested in a different batch, an expensive process. Further, each of the farms was also agreeing to meticulously track the project plants’ development, tying each to a unique tracking number, and to take cuttings of the plant to be grown in a vegetative state in a controlled nursery, ensuring that any “unicorns” found at the project’s conclusion could be replicated through cloning.

“At the end of the day, it’s a tracking nightmare — it was a self-imposed, track-and-trace nightmare,” Pennington says, adding that the project ultimately tracked not just 10,000 plants, but an equal library of clones as well.

It was shortly after 9 a.m. on a Monday in March and Hendricks had on a white laboratory coat that — coupled with his long, curly hair — gave him more than a hint of mad-scientist vibe. He was scrawling notes on a white board in HendRx Farms’ warehouse, giving a reporter a mini course on plant breeding 101. It was stuff straight out of Intro Biology as he walked through how breeders work to eliminate or isolate certain plant attributes to, say, breed tulips of a certain color or cannabis of a certain potency.

The 2018 phenotype mega hunt was over but its fruits were just hitting market. In an effort to make the hunt worth everyone’s time, they had settled on a tiered roll out. First, HendRx started offering clones — cuttings of a mother plant that are its exact genetic replica — to select local farms, giving both the nursery and the farms a kind of head start in getting what they hoped would be popular strains to market.

“They’ll have exclusive early access to the latest and greatest before the rest of the state,” Pennington says. In the background, Pennington planned to keep doing the much more intensive and prolonged breeding process needed to form a stable seed stock.

They were pleased with the results of the hunt, saying it unearthed a number of unicorns — so many, in fact, that they were going to slow roll their releases to market.

First up were Vanilla Frosting, The Bling and Magic Melon. A few months later, Pennington would say the slow-roll plan paid dividends. By the time they looked to expand distribution beyond Humboldt County, Vanilla Frosting — a high-yielding, potent variation of the popular Gelato lines — was already the source of industry buzz. When Dark Heart Nursery held a special release event in Los Angeles for the strain — offering a limited supply of clones for $100 a piece — the line stretched down the street and around the corner.

The 2019 Northern California Grow Off — an annual competition prized by growers that sees farms given identical clones and then compete to grow them into the most potent plants — is also featuring some “unique genetics” from the 2018 hunt. As of June, Hendricks says his nursery had also rolled out Carmel Cream, Squirt, Lemon Grass and Inside Out, a strain that “looks like indoor even when grown outdoors,” with additional mega hunt strains slated to be released in the second half of 2019.

Meanwhile, Pennington and his colleagues have already shifted their focus to the 2019 mega hunt, bringing on additional farms and nurseries. But the approach is different this year. In 2018, the focus was on planting as many varietals as possible to find unique genetics — “really special things,” as Pennington puts it — that they could work with in subsequent seasons. So the 2019 hunt is carrying that work forward, taking some of the 2018 unicorns and cross

“We started businesses in our garages ... and we have the deepest population of cannabis genes on the planet. Nat had this vision and it was about seeing all of Humboldt collaborate on a project of historic significance.”

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breeding them into new creations. For example, Penningon says he crossed a variation of his Blueberry Muffin with Mother’s Milk, from Bodhi’s Seeds in Santa Cruz, which took silver and gold medals, respectively, at the High Times Cannabis Cup, and has “quite a few of them” planted for this year’s hunt.

“I think it’s OK for me to say we’re not doing as much but we’re really honing in on last year’s winners,” Pennington says. “We’ll still get to at least 3,000 to 4,000 plants.”

Milling about in the HendRx Farms warehouse that day in March, Hendricks and Pennington also talk excitedly about what the future holds for cannabis as it is scientifically mainstreamed and treated like most agricultural products and less like something with seeds that need to be hidden away in sock drawers. Already, Hendricks says, they have DNA testing that can test seedlings for specific attributes — like a susceptibility to powdery mildew or drought resistance — and cull their stock accordingly.

“It gives you the opportunity to learn things about your plant before you actually grow it,” he says, adding that this allows breeders like Pennington to work at hyper speed, freed of the restraints of annual growing cycles.

But what they are most excited about is the sense of collaboration in the air, the fact that a seed company and a clone nursery — direct competitors, in a sense — can work hand in hand, sharing information freely in a quest for superior genetics. And the urgency of the moment isn’t lost on them.

They know that deep-pocketed companies and investors are plunging into the cannabis industry with the power to market specific strains and products, and to produce them on a massive scale.

“There are outfits with actual marketing budgets, as opposed to calling a neighbor you know who can draw a little bit and saying, ‘Hey, can you draw me a logo?’” Pennington says. “But we’re all on the same team. People aren’t at odds. They’re trying to figure out ways to work together.”

A version of this story previously ran in the North Coast Journal, where Thadeus Greenson is the news editor.

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Product Directory Cannabis BLUNTS Kuda Cannabis Kuda

CIGARS The Heart of Humboldt 3 Kings, 2 or 4g Berry White, 3 or 4g Blackberry Frost, 5 or 4g Chemdawg OG, 4 or 4g Steal Your Face6 or 4g

CLONES Humboldt Patient Resource Center GG#4 GSC Mendo Breath Key Lime Pie Platinum Punch Purple Starburst Romie Melon Cake Challenger Deep HendRx 1 Haze 20-Year Trainwreck Banana Punch Banana Split Blood Orange Blue Cupcake Blueberry Muffin No. 10 Blueberry Muffin No. 4 Calihari Kush Candy Cane Carmel Cream Cement Shoes Charlie Girl Don Carlos Ebola No. 7 Family Jewels Forbidden Fruit Forbidden Mints Garlic Cookies Gelanade Gelato Gorilla Glue No. 4 GSC Harle Tsu CBD Ice Cream Cake Inside Out Jager Ken’s GDP Lemon Grass Lemon Tree Loco Dawg London Pound Cake Mac Melon Magic Melon Mai Tai Mandarin Cookie Mimosa Mother’s Milk No. 31 OG Kush Papaya Punch Pineapple Apple Upside Down Cake

Purple Apricot Purple Punch Ringo’s Gift CBD Sin Cake Skycuddler Kush Sour Diesel OG Squirt Sundae Driver Tangie THC Bomb The Bling The Grow Off NorCal 2019 The MAC Trident CBD Vanilla Frosting Venom OG Wedding Cake Bx Wedding Tree No. 53 Source Nursery 707OG Gelato 33 Jack Herer Pineapple Upside Down Cake Purple Punch Strawberry Banana

DRY TRIM Humboldt Sungrowers Guild Banana OG Banana Split Birthday Cake Blue Cheese Berry Cookies & Cream Creme Brulee Euphoria Forbidden Fruit Gelato #33 Green Crack GSC Ice Cream Cake Jack Lemon Tree M! OG M1 OG Miss USA Northern Lights OG OG Cookie Breath Orange Cookies Orange Creamsicle Peanut Butter Breath Platinum Cookies Pur Kush Purple Punch Purple Urkle Ringo’s Gift, CBD SFV OG Sherbet Key Lime Pie Sluricane Strawberry Berry Fields Sunday Driver, CBD Sunset Sherbet Super Sour Diesel Trinity Star Tropicana Cookies Wedding Cake White Tahoe Cookes Zkittles Ztrawberriez True Humboldt Blue Zkittles

FLOWER Above Cannabis Banana Split Chocola-tonic (1:1 CBD:THC) Mimosa Platinum OG Sour Diesal Lemon Kush Underdog OG Aloha Humboldt Forbidden Fruit Golden Lemons White Tahoe Cookies Briceland Farms Cuddlebud The Country Club African Orange Angel Food Cake Big Smooth Blackberry Fire Blue Zkittles Blueforia Coyote Blue Cuddlebud Dragon Punch Dream Queen Gelato #33 Gelato #41 GG4 Ice Cream Cake LA Kush Cake Lemon Kush Mango Sherbet OG Kush Paradise Punch Purple Punch Purple Urkle Reserve OG Sour Diesel Stick Figure Strawberry Banana Strawberry Diedel Sugar Cookie Sundae Driver Sunset Sherbet SuperFruit Wedding Cake White Buffalo Dean Creek Farm Blueberry Ice Cream Cake Purple Punch Fresh off the Hill Farm Banana Punch Charlie Girl Crème Brulee Ebola No. 7 Forbidden Mints GG4 GMO Cookies Ice Cream Cake Lemonade Mai Tai Mendo Breath Mimosa Papaya Punch Pineapple Tonic Purple Apricot Purple Punch Sour Patch Kids Sour Strawberry Sundae Driver No. 6

True OG Wedding Crashers Z Cubed Zkittlez Full Moon Farms King Louie OG Luna Cookies Northern Berry The Heart of Humboldt 3 Kings Berry White Blackberry Frost Blueberry Muffin Buddha Chemdawg OG Citral Skunk Crippler Crippler Critical Mass Dark Knight Fire Kush Gorilla Glue #4 Green Crack Lemony Sniffit Maui Wowie Pandora Prezidential Kush Royal Kush Steal Your Face Humboldt’s Dankest Blue Cookies Cherry Lemonade Dosi Breath Wedding Mints Fruity Peebles OG Humboldt Legacy Farm Ice Cream Cake Sundae Driver Watermelon Lifesavers Humboldt Sungrowers Guild Banana OG Banana Split Birthday Cake Blue Cheese Berry Blue Zkittles Cookies & Cream Creme Brulee Euphoria Forbidden Fruit Gelato #33 Green Crack GSC Ice Cream Cake Jack Lemon Tree M1 OG Miss USA Northern Lights OG OG Cookie Breath Orange Cookies Orange Creamsicle Peanut Butter Breath Platinum Cookies Pure Kush Purple Punch Purple Urkle Ringo’s Gift, CBD SFV OG Sherbet Key Lime Pie Sluricane Strawberry Berry Fields

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PRODUCT DIRECTORY Sunday Driver, CBD Sunset Sherbet Super Sour Diesel Trinity Star Tropicana Cookies Wedding Cake White Tahoe Cookes Zkittles Ztrawberriez Mainely Humboldt Ice Cream Cake Mac 1 Miss USA Mountainwise Farms 3 Kings Mandarin Cookies Platinum OG Sour Skittles Sour Tangie Natures Jar Platinum Alien OG Peak Banana Breath (THC 16.4%) 1/8 Jar Banana Split (THC 18.3%) 1/8 Jar Banana Split (THC 18%) 1/8 Jar Blueberry Muffin (THC 15.26%) 1/8 bag Butterscotch Kush (THC 27%)1/8 Jar Cherry Juice (THC 20.1%) 1/8 Jar Cherry Juice (THC 20.1%) 1/8 Jar Chocolate Hashberry (THC 22.5%)1/8 Jar Cookies (THC 24%) 1/8 jar Dosidos (THC 18.5%)1/8 Jar Gelato 41 (THC 15.2%) 1/8 jar Key Lime Pie THC (21.6%) 1/8 Jar Lemon Juice THC (21.3%) 1/8 Jar Lemon Tree (THC 25.2%) 1/8 Jar Mendo Breath (THC 12.9%) 1/8 Bag Mendo Breath (THC 18.1%)1/8 Jar Mendo Breath FT (THC 25.3%) 1/8 Jar Mendo Breath LD (THC 18.1%) 1/8 Jar PEAK Strawberry Rocks, 1/8 (bags or jars), 1/4 oz (bags) or 1oz (bags) Purple Anarchy (THC 12.9%) 1/8 Bag Purple Punch (THC 21.2%) 1/8 Jar Purple Punch (THC 21.3%) 1/8 Jar Strawnana THC (26.8%) 1/8 Jar Sunset Sherbet (THC 20.3%) 1/8 Bag Sunset Sherbet (THC 20.3%) 7gram Jar Super Sour OG (THC 23.3%) 1/8 Jar Tangimal Cookies (THC 17.9%)1/8 Jar The Original (THC 20.5%) 1/8 Jar Trinity Star (THC 19.49%) Wedding Cake (THC 24.8%) 1/8 Jar Zkittlez (THC 19.9%)1/8 Jar Zkittlez (THC 26.2%) 1/8 Jar Reed Family Pharms 3 Kings OG Purple Punch Riverview Gardens Blueforia Dragon Punch Sapphire Rose SoHum Royal Blue Shark Emerald Sorbet M1 OG

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Sunrise Mountain Farm Creme Deluna Top Choice Cannabis Runtz Tangimal Cookies Wedding Cake Villa Paradiso Berry Nectar Nectar 99 Rattlesnake OG Whitethorn Farms Jack Herer

FLOWER/INDOOR Humboldt Patient Resource Center GG#4 GSC Mendo Breath Key Lime Pie Pure Kush Platinum Punch Romie Sunset Sherbert x High Octane OG Purple Starburst Melon Cake Challenger Deep Talking Trees 4 Kings 1g 4 Kings 3.5g 3.5g Angel Food Cake 1g Angel Food Cake 3.5g Blue Dream 1g Blue Dream 3.5g Gelato 1g Gelato 3.5g Green Crack 1g Green Crack 3.5g Huckleberry Flower 1g Huckleberry Flower 3.5g Lemon Meringue 1g Lemon Meringue 3.5g Pacific Frost 1g Pacific Frost 1g Pacific Frost 3.5g Pacific Frost 3.5g Pineapple Upside Down Cake 1g Pineapple Upside Down Cake 3.5g

FLOWER/SUNGROWN Talking Trees Angel Food Cake 1g Angel Food Cake 3.5g Blue Dream 1g Blue Dream 3.5g Candy Kush 3.5g Gelato 3.5g Layer Cake 1g Layer Cake 3.5g

KEIF Peak Afgoo (THC 49.23%) Super SOur OG (THC 47.9%)

LUX PRE-ROLLS The Heart of Humboldt Ak-47, 1.25g Blue Dream, 1.25g Buddha, 1.25g Citral Skunk, 1.25g Crippler, 1.25g

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Dark Knight, 1.25g Green Crack, 1.25g Maui Wowie, 1.25g Pandora, 1.25g Prezidential Kush, 1.25g Royal Kush, 1.25g Trainwreck, 1.25g White Buffalo, 1.25g

PRE-ROLLS Above Cannabis Banana Split Platinum OG Aloha Humboldt Blueberry Cookies, hash infused 1g Bubble Gum, hash infused 1g Forbidden Fruit 3.5g Golden Lemons 3.5g Sour Diesel, hash infused 1g Sour OG, all flower (2- 1.25g prerolls per pack, 2.5g total) Three Kings, hash infused 1g White Tahoe Cookies 3.5g The Country Club Banana Split Blue Zkittles Blueberry Muffin Gelato Gelato #41 GG4 OG Kush Pineapple Upside Down Cake Pink Lemonade Platinum OG Stick Figure Sunset Sherbet Thin Mint GSC Trinidad OG The Heart of Humboldt 3 Kings, 1.25g Berry White, 1.25g Blue Dream, 1.25g Buddha, 1.25g Chemdawg OG, 1.25g Citral Skunk, 1.25g Crippler, 1.25g Dark Knight, 1.25g Green Crack, 1.25g Green Crack, 1.25g Maui Wowie, 1.25g Ogre, 1.25g Pandora, 1.25g Prezidential Kushv Royal Kush, 1.25g Steal Your Face, 1.25g Trainwreck, 1.25g Humboldt Patient Resource Center GG#4 GSC Mendo Breath Key Lime Pie Pure Kush Platinum Punch Romie Sunset Sherbert x High Octane OG Purple Starburst Melon Cake Challenger Deep Humboldt Sungrowers Guild Hybrid Indica Sativa

Kiskanu 5 Pack Premium Pre-Rolls Single Pre-Roll Kuda Cannabis Kuda Peak Banana Split (THC 18.3%) 5pack (3.5grams) Banana Split (THC 18%) Blueberry Muffin (THC 13.45%) Cherry Chem (THC 12.9%) 5pack (3.5grams) Gelato (THC 13.4%) 5pack (3.5grams) Orange Sherbet (THC 14.7%) 5pack (3.5grams) Platinum OG (THC 16%) Vanilla Crème (THC 18%) SkyHigh Humboldt SkyHigh OG Sunrise Mountain Farm Creme Deluna Talking Trees 4 Kings .6g 4 Kings 1g Blue Dream .6g Blue Dream 1g Cherry AK .6g Cherry AK 1g Cookie Kush .6g Cookie Kush 1g Golden Cookies .6g Golden Cookies 1g Green Crack .6g Huckleberry .6g Huckleberry 1g Lemon Merigue .6g Pacific Frost .6g Romulan Grapefruit .6g Romulan Greapefruit 1g Sour Diesel 1g x 6 Pack Variety 3.6g .6g Zkittles .6g Zour Patch Kids .6g

PRE-ROLLS/FLOWER Aloha Humboldt

PRE-ROLLS/HASH Aloha Humboldt Bubblegum Sour Diesel Three Kings

SEEDS The Country Club Fire OG Lemon Kush Mango Sherbet Purple Pany Dropper Truffula Tree Vanilla Frosting Willy G’s Lebanese HendRx 7 Layer Cake Calihari Kush Earth Day Cake Ebola No. 7 Equilibrium CBD Wedding Tree

Elevated Farmer’s Choice 1:1 Fog Berry Lemon Sugar Kush OG Kush Professor Chaos Purple Anarchy Rebel Sour Relaxed Sour Diesel Tangie Tsunami Trainwreck Humboldt Sungrowers Guild Blueberry Muffin Dandy Land Orange Creamsicle Purple Punch Zkittles Humboldt’s Dankest Banana Kush Dream Queen Gelato Distillate SFV OG Peak Apricot Papaya (THC 71.9%) Cherry Pie (THC 53.9%) Cookies & Cream (THC 50.2%) Durban Poison (THC 63.3%) Fruity Loud (THC 46.6%) Gelato (THC 50%) Lem OG (THC 68.3%) Mendo Breath (THC 49.5%) Tangie (THC 62.25%)

EXTRACTS TERPENES Humboldt Seed Company Available Upon Request

VAPES Kuda Cannabis Kuda

The Country Club Black Jack Bubble Hash Candyland Moose Tracks Bubble Hash Golden Cookies Key Lime Pie Bubble Hash Mendo Breath Red Powder Hash SFV Green Power Hash Temple Balls

HASH ROSIN

Concentrates BUBBLE HASH Talking Trees 4 Kings 1g 1g Cake Mix 1g Cherry AK / Pineapple 1g Golden Lemons 1g Huckleberry 1g Lemon Sherbert 1g Pack a Punch 1g Papaya Zkittles 1g SFV 2.0 1g SFV OG / Gelato 1g Sour Diesel 1g Sour Glue 1g Z Lime Pie 1g Z Sherbert 1g

CARTRIDGES The Country Club Ancient Lime Balanced Chernobyl Dairy Queen Live Sauce Double Sour OG Eel River Kush Live Sauce Cart

Talking Trees Gorilla Gas 1g Pineapple Tsunami 1g TTF Blend 1g

LIVE RESIN Humboldt Patient Resource Center Pure Kush Platinum Punch Sunset Sherbert Romie Humboldt’s Dankest OG Sours - Diamonds with Terp Sauce Zkittles Peak Blue Guava (THC 76.2%) Blueberry Muffin (THC 63%) Gin & Juice (THC 71.3%) Humboldt Terp Council: Lemon Meringue (THC 62.4%) Orangeade (THC 68.1%) Papaya Verde (THC 70.9%) Passion Orange Guava (THC 73.5%) Venom OG (THC 67%)

Zkittlez (THC 63.7%) ZMuffin (THC 63%) Talking Trees Miss USA 1g Pack a Punch 1g Pink Lemonade 1g Sunset Sherbert 1g The Country Club Sour Face Sunset Sherbet

LIVE ROSIN/ SOLVENTLESS Talking Trees Cookie Kush 1g GG4 1g Key Lime Pie 1g Mimosa 1g Miss USA 1g

Tea (1 tea bag) Satori Sleep Better Blend Tea (1 tea bag) Satori Trimmer Treatment Tea (1 tea bag) Satori Yerbe Mate Tea (1 tea bag)

TINCTURE The Country Club Trident CBD Papa & Barkley Releaf Tincture 1:1 CBD:THCA Releaf Tincture 1:3 CBD:THC Releaf Tincture 1:30 CBD:THC Releaf Tincture 30:1 CBD:THC

Hardware BATTERY

LIVE ROSINS The Country Club Chernobyl Dair Queen Diamonds Diesel Dough Eel River Kush Mimosa Sauce Platinum Mermaid The Doctor

THCA The Country Club Sunrise Surprise

Talking Trees Micro USB concentrate battery

Natural Health BATH & BODY Papa & Barkley Releaf Body Oil Releaf Soak

Topicals BALMS

Edibles CANDY The Country Club Caramel Drops 1:1 Gem Juice Gummies Space Gem 10 Pack CBD Space Drops 10 Pack Sour Space Drops 10 Pack Sweet Space Drops ** 4 Pack Sour Space Drops 4 Pack Sweet Space Drops 4 Pack Vita Gems CBD

Kiskanu CBD Skin Rub Cannabis Skin Rub Papa & Barkley Releaf Balm 1:3 CBD:THC Releaf Balm 3:1 CBD:THC

BODY & BATH The Country Club Face Oil Realief Balm & Bath Soak Kiskanu CBD Face Oil Cannabis Face Oil Cannabis Suppositories

CAPSULES Papa & Barkley Releaf Capsules 1:3 CBD:THC Releaf Capsules 30:1 CBD:THC

INTIMACY OIL Kiskanu CBD Intimacy Oil Cannabis Intimacy Oil

DRINK Space Gem Gem Guice - Grape - 2 oz. Bottle

TEA Space Gem Satori Healing Hibiscus Tea (1 tea bag) Satori Humboldt Hack Away Tea (1 tea bag) Satori Meditative Mint

TRANSDERMAL PATCHES Papa & Barkley Releaf Patch 1:1 CBD:THC Releaf Patch 1:3 CBD:THC Releaf Patch 3:1 CBD:THC Releaf Patch CBD

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Humboldt Seed Company Amethyst AKA Blood Orange Asphalt Plant Banana Mango Bigfoot Glue Blueberry Muffin California Sour Diesel Collie Man Kush Cookie Monster Don Carlos Dream Queen Fire O.G. G.S. Cookies Humboldt Dream Humboldt Headband Humboldt Sour Diesel Jack Herer Lemon Kush Lemongrass Magic Melon Mango sherbet Mango Trees OG Kush Old Growth OG Pineapple Muffin Pineapple Trainwreck Pineapple Upside Down Cake Purple Mountain Majesty Purple Panty Dropper Royal Highness Solstice Autoflower AK-47 Stoopid Fruits Sweet A nnie 1:1 Trainwreck Truffula Tree Vanilla Frosting Very Cherry Willy Gs Lebanese

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Backbone Software Briceland Forest Farms Country Club Cannabis Dean Creek Farms Inc. Eureka Oxygen Fresh Off The Hill Farm Full Moon Farms The Heart of Humboldt (THCA) Heart of the Emerald Hendrx Farm Humboldt Cannabis Tours The Humboldt County Collective Humboldt County Growers Alliance Humboldt Patient Resource Center INSERT Humboldt Seed Company 4 Humboldt’s Dankest 12 Humboldt’s Legacy Farms 16 Inn of the Lost Coast 55 Kathleen Bryson, Attorney 43 Kiskanu Humboldt 11 Kuda Cannabis 7 The Land Man 33 Mainely Humboldt 49 Nature’s Jar 40 Mountainwise Farms 49 Pacific Paradise Arcata 2 Papa & Barkley 54 51 23 38 53 25 66 15 38 68 55 20 37 65

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Peak Industries, Inc. Proper Wellness Reed Pharms Riverbar Pharms Bed & Breakfast Riverview Gardens, LLC Satori Wellness Six Rivers Solar Sky High Humboldt Source Nursery Southern Humboldt HLA Southern Humboldt Royal Cannabis Company Sunrise Mountain Farms Top Choice Organics, LLC Trinity Diesel True Humboldt Villa Paradiso Whitethorn Valley Farm

Photograph courtesy of Humboldt Seed Company.

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FARM DIRECTORY

WHEN

QUALITY MATTERS

Here at Full Moon Farms, we pride ourselves on being one of the small craft farms nestled in the hills of Humboldt County. Being a craft farm means working with nature, respecting the land, always using organic methods and bringing you the highest quality cannabis that we can produce. Our family has been in Northern California for 7 generations, and we care deeply about our community, and give back to it as often as we can. Craft farmers have

a chance to break the traditional corporate model by putting people before profit, not always doing things the easy way, but doing things the right way — like a water neutral system that utilizes rain catchment and the use of companion plants to help with pest management and plant oil production. You can always feel good about our flowers.

Come taste the difference and see for yourself why the hills of Humboldt are so legendary. – Nik Erikson

TOP STRAINS FOR 2019-2020: GAS STATION

SPACE MONKEY OG

CREAM BRULEE

Headband x Sour Diesel.

A FMF signature strain with the right balance of a heavy hitting trifecta GG#4 × GSC × Louie OG small batch limited release (coming soon).

From farm friend Kevin Jodrey, this is sure to be a fan favorite. We can not wait to share this one with you.

LUNA COOKIES

NORTHERN BERRY

For all your fuel needs

KING LOUIE OG A pure indica with earthy notes and just the right splash of fuel.

28% THC

Award winning floral notes that permeate your senses and leave you smiling.

23% WINNER

THC

PRIVATE RESERVE CUT

Our award winning, fruity flower deliveries on both taste and effect.

A sensory experience that is sure to please!!!

WINNER

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SEE THE DIFFERENCE

CREAM BRÛLÉE (INDICA DOMINANT)

Nberry Macro

VA N A RK E N F UND S UP P OR T E RS

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