Humboldt Cannabis Magazine Winter 2019

A Magazine & Directory of Culture, Cultivators, Products & Services

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Editor’s Letter HISTORY + CULTURE A Farm in the Mountains DewPoint keeps it in the family

TOURISM 16 Meet the Farmers

Food, wine and cannabis producers

gather at Garberville’s Benbow Inn FEELING GOOD 23

Sweeten the Pot

A spoonful of sugar helps

the medicine go down

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ENVIRONMENT 26 Keep it Clean

Making sure your

cannabis is eco friendly FOOD + DRINK 31 At the Source

Soma Juice’s journey to India INNOVATION 40 In the Zone

Humboldt cities make room

for cannabis manufacturing

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56 FARM & PRODUCT DIRECTORIES 62 WINNING CANNABIS CULTIVATORS 64 ADVERTISER INDEX

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If you’re curious about where your cannabis

and a chance to hang out with the folks who raise the finest cannabis money can buy.

Humboldt manufacturing is thriving these days, too. “In the Zone” gives you a tour of the Papa & Barkley plant and the designated cannabis business areas that cities around the county have created to nurture the industry. That’s good news for both small producers and folks who want to support them, like BEAR Extraction House. Speaking of locally grown and processed, we’ve got a spread of edibles you’ll want to check out. Chocolates, gummies and more for every taste and intensity.

From local to global: The Humboldt-based Soma company is taking its balanced organic juices to the next level. The targeted formulas (which are delicious, by the way) use herbs, spices and natural juices to boost health and relaxation, and maybe, just maybe, replace your morning coffee. And Soma is working with farms in rural India to source native herbs while helping locals there by investing in improving sustainable practices. Soma is also teaming up with Humboldt farmers on a line of infused beverages, so look out for those on the shelf, too.

Of course, if you can come up for a visit, you’re always welcome.

comes from, take a trip up to Humboldt to breathe our fresh air and stroll under our redwoods. If you can’t get away right now, no worries. In this issue, we’ll give you the lay of the land — and introduce you to the folks who work it.

How safe and eco-friendly is the cannabis you’re buying? Well, if you’re shopping at a legal dispensary (and make sure you are), it’s been thoroughly tested for all kinds of contaminants and grown subject to strict environmental regulations. In “Keep it Clean,” you’ll learn how your tinctures and flowers are checked and double checked before they reach you — and how you can go further to minimize their impact on the planet.

One family-run farm keeping it natural is DewPoint. Andelain and Prem Roy come from a long line of Humboldt cultivators growing the best way they know: in the mountain sunshine, with their hands on every plant. We’ll take you to the place they call home in “A Farm in the Mountains,” and you’ll see why the best cannabis comes from one of the most beautiful places in California. Of course, if you make it to the Emerald Triangle in person, it’s not like you can just walk up and chat with our farmers. Oh, wait, you can! In this issue, we’ll show you to a table at one of Southern Humboldt’s Meet the Farmers events — fantastic local food and drink,

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DEWPOINT FARMS IS NESTLED in the highlands of the towering, ancient

redwoods, overlooked by the peaks of the King Mountain Range, with the Mattole River, clear as glass and sparkling green, winding its way through the land below. The natural elements create a perfect micro-climate for growing quality cannabis.

In a rapidly expanding industry faced with a whirlwind of shifting regulations and stiff competition, Andelain Roy, owner of DewPoint Farms, is a third-generation Humboldt cannabis cultivator who’s thriving. DewPoint follows a family tradition of love and dedication

to growing cannabis. A mother of two, Roy considers carrying on that cannabis farming legacy an honor. She explains, “This is not just a business. It’s our home. One we’re proud to raise our children in and teach them to continue this way of life. We were born in Humboldt County and it is the only place we dream to be.”

According to the Humboldt County Growers Association, “Humboldt County now leads the state in licensed cannabis cultivation.”

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Above: Andelain Roy among the plants at DewPoint Farms. Photo by NomadiCam Opposite: Robust Xibalba from DewPoint Farms.

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receive an annual state license. The farm’s methods are rooted in a foundation of sustainability and environmentally conscious practices. The plants are showered with water from the Mattole River watershed and raised in only natural sunlight and solar energy is used to power 100 percent of the farm. The family’s own food crops grow alongside their cannabis plants.

Andelain is not only dedicated to her craft and family tradition but to her community and the land. She sits on a handful of nonprofit boards, provides support to the Mattole Watershed and Mattole Fire Department financially and by lending her voice. “It’s important for people to know [Humboldt cannabis cultivators’] passion, and know who we are and what we stand for.

We’re a family and it is our responsibility to ensure our land is protected and our industry continues to thrive,” she says.

“We have generations of blood, sweat and tears poured into our lands and our craft.”

When Roy is not on a trip to the river with her family, packing school lunches or managing her business, she and her husband, Prem, are in the fields cultivating some of the best quality cannabis Humboldt has to offer. They start their days at sunrise: Prem heading to the fields for 12 to 14 hours and Andelain to prepare breakfast, send her children off to school and finally to the office to answer emails and tackle the stack of compliance paperwork until night. After the children are tucked in bed, Andelain and Prem convene to discuss the days ahead over Sleepy Time tea. Then they head to bed and start their routine again at dawn.

Being a small family farm can have its fair share of opportunities and obstacles. Large, multi-million-dollar cannabis companies that don’t rely on sunshine and seasonal cycles can harvest every week while DewPoint harvests twice a year. Although this may seem to place DewPoint at a disadvantage, it’s what puts Humboldt cannabis on the map and earns devotees from all corners of the world. “I will never commoditize my plants. I value the quality and uniqueness of my products far too much,” states Andelain.

DewPoint does not have a team of seasoned business professionals managing all aspects of the company. That means Andelain is the compliance manager, sales team and co-cultivator. When they need to lead marketing and sales, she swaps her farm boots for heels, throws on her suit and drives off in her diesel truck to the

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next business meeting. “One day I’ll put on my suit, which doubles as my armor because at times I feel I am fighting for my livelihood.

The next day, I’ll be working alongside Prem in the fields. When people purchase my product, they should know Prem and I planted those seeds and touched every plant. Our motto is ‘look, listen, and feel,’ and we employ our senses each time we step foot into our greenhouses.”

With regulations being constantly overhauled, cannabis cultivators are faced with a host of challenges. Each unexpected change or added fee could make or break small family farms. In 2018, when packaging regulations were in place, the Roys planned on investing $100,000 in product packaging materials. If they had, DewPoint would not have recovered from the abrupt termination of the packaging regulation that followed. With the most recent changes in the system of tracking and tracing cannabis from farm to dispensaries, she lost significant time and money spent hiring and training an employee for the program, along with the purchase of thousands of dollars of materials. But as the dust begins to settle, she is thankful for the structure and safety protocols to keep cannabis safe, legitimate and high-quality.

There are other practical benefits to legal farming, too. Last fall she and her neighbors gathered with Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal to develop a neighborhood watch and train community members. Andelain explains that cannabis farms can be vulnerable to crime “as a cash-based business and [given] the fact that we are required to list our address in public records. … Prior to legalization, we would have never worked hand in hand with the sheriff on matters of safety and security. This meeting proves times have changed for the better and the community is stronger than ever.”

Whatever comes next, when the sun comes up on the mountain tomorrow, the Roys will be up and back to work.

“Our motto is ‘look, listen, and feel.’”

Joyce Endaya is owner of NomadiCam Productions at www.NomadiCam.com.

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MEETthe MEE FARMERS FAR Food, wine and cannabis producers gather at Garberville’s Benbow Inn

By Stella Girkins Photographs by Sam Armanino

DRIVING UP U.S. HIGHWAY 101, the towering redwood trees of Richardson Grove State Park act as a portal into southern Humboldt County, representing the larger than life reputation that the area holds: a history of counter culture and cannabis cultivation. Emerging on the other side of the canopy, the lighted sign of the Benbow Historic Inn poised over the highway for decades represented contrasting sides of Humboldt’s culture and economy. However, with legalization, local cannabis growers and inn management have built a surprising bridge with a new dinner series called Meet the Farmers and host an open discussion about the history and future of farming in Humboldt County.

At the end of September, the Benbow Inn collaborated with the Southern Humboldt Business & Visitor’s Bureau (SHBVB) to host its second Meet the Farmers event, featuring a dozen resident cannabis cultivators, along with two vintners. The affair also acted as a reception for Feast of Fields

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Meet the Farmers took place on a cool autumn evening on the back lawn of the Benbow Inn. Hosts, speakers and guests mingled on the lawn, sipping Briceland Vineyards’ wine and Gyppo Ale Mill brews, and nibbling on hors d’oeuvres provided by the inn. Then, SHBVB Director Laura Lasseter called the first round of speakers to the front tables framed in the background by the stone arch of Benbow Bridge while the rest took a seat on the white lawn chairs.

While there are no rules as to what speakers discuss in their allotted time, many farmers spoke in anticipation of Feast of Fields and, in particular, International Cannabis Farmers Association’s Taste of Terroir Education. The International Cannabis Farmers Association (ICFA) describes itself as a group of cannabis farmers, scientists, and other thoughtful stakeholders working together to promote the unique quality and ecological benefits of sun-grown cannabis products. ICFA member Tina Gordon of Moon Made Farms described her involvement: “I joined up with ICFA because I fell in love with this plant being grown outside and the sun-grown expression of this plant. I feel compelled in a very deep way to see this process going forward.”

One of the core beliefs of the ICFA is preserving the heritage of traditional farming communities. This means growing outdoors where natural factors, such as light, soil, topography and climate, affect the buds. “(ICFA) is a sun-grown specific organization,” said Chrystal Ortiz of High Water Farms. “We will always be a sun-grown specific organization because we feel it is really important that there be advocacy that is directly related to sun-grown farmers and the issues that we face.”

The criminalization of marijuana farming pushed the practice indoors, where these factors had little effect on the outcome of the product. Furthermore, growing indoors put a major burden on the environment in an area where people are typically environmentally conscious.

After being busted for marijuana cultivation, Robert Steffano of Villa Paradiso passed time in jail by thinking about the environmental impact of his indoor grow operation. “I started doing the math on how much fuel and diesel I was running those years and it’s just disgusting,” he said. “It’s enough to drive to the moon and back two and a half times.”

However, with legalization, farms are investing more time and money into how the environment can enhance a bud’s profile and how farming practices can improve the land. They want farming and the environment to have a mutually beneficial relationship. “Cannabis as

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a cash crop has allowed us to take risks with our farming and experiment with just how beneficial, how regenerative for the land we can make the things that we do and risk it,” said Daniel Stein of Briceland Forest Farm. “If we were betting the farm on a crop of carrots, I wouldn’t be able to say, ‘Hey, I’m going to do no till this year and see how that goes.’”

With the return to outdoor farming along with the influx of competitive cannabis markets, there’s a heightened discussion about what makes Humboldt grown marijuana so special and a lot of that comes down to terroir. Terroir, in the most basic of terms, is the environmental factors that affect a crop and is most commonly associated with grapes and the wine-making process. This includes factors such as soil, topography and climate. Vintners have been studying these properties for decades. However, cannabis growers are now adopting the term in order to define buds.

“It takes a long time to understand how the soil affects (a crop) — how the weather affects it, the wind and things as simple as a change in the curvature of the land,” said Andrew Morris of Briceland Vineyards. “It takes a long time to develop that and it’s interesting to see the parallels between what happens with wine and cannabis farming.” However, Morris, whose vineyard has operated for over 30 years, believes that terroir is not just about the land, but its history and the people that live on it. “We normally think of terroir as being the land and the weather, but really it’s local influences, which include the people and the cultural tendencies and all the things that make a place what it is,” he explained.

However, speakers agreed that what truly makes crops grown in Humboldt County unique is not just the environmental climate but the cultural climate, as well. “We have something very special here beyond just the cannabis. We have this really strong community that comes together over everything — fire protection, land conservation, cannabis cultivation,” said Galen Doherty of Whitethorn Valley Farms.

“It’s what really unites us and makes us different than much of around California.”

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Stein also echoed this sentiment, saying, “A lot of this comes down to place and the magic that happens with the right people and the right connection to place. That’s what we’re talking about when it comes to terroir and the magic that comes out of this plant in this place.”

Many of the speakers also noted another difference between Humboldt cannabis cultivation culture compared to the rest of the world: female representation. In fact, women made up almost half of the speakers at the inn that evening. Wendy Kornberg of Sunnabis explained how she travels frequently for her job and speaks at a lot of cannabis events. “What you see going to events is a lot of guys,” she said. “What I see up here is a lot of women being represented in our economy and the equality that we have here is something super special.”

Despite the air of celebration, farmers also spoke of the hardships that came with cannabis cultivation from losing their livelihoods to the difficulties of going through the permitting process. “We’ve all been through the guerilla growing era where the helicopters hovered over us and pushed us underground, to the days of diesel dope, to reemerge under greenhouses and into the green rush and now, finally, legalization,” said Nik Erikson of Full Moon Farms. “What I’ve definitely seen here tonight, looking at all of you, is that we’ve come out of this stronger and wiser and more attached to the plant that binds us all.”

Listening to all the speakers at the second Meet the Farmers event, it’s clear that “Humboldt grown” is about more than just cannabis. It’s the food that is grown here and the wine that is produced. Perhaps, most importantly, it’s the people and community here that make all these crops taste so sweet. As Sunshine Johnston of Sunboldt Grown put it, “When you combine the juice of those grapes from the land with the food that’s grown here and finish it with good herb, it’s good for your soul.”

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IN HUMBOLDT, we’re no

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takes as little toll on the planet as possible.

We’ve all heard about stream diversions, poisoning of wildlife, chemicals in the soil and hash labs exploding. So now that cannabis is legal in California, how do you know what you’re buying at your local dispensary is not only safe, but also not damaging the planet? After all, you can buy a perfectly legal mattress never knowing it’s soaked in cancer-causing chemical fire retardants. So what about your weed?

While you won’t find the organic certification on your Durban Poison just yet, growers and distributors are making a point to source product that’s eco-friendly and healthy in every phase of the production here in Humboldt County.

Ray Markland, owner of EcoCann, a cannabis dispensary in Eureka’s Old Town, knows a thing or two about the cannabis business — he grew up in Humboldt, after all. He points out that most of the people in the legal marijuana business here aren’t only in it for the money; they do it because they care about creating a sustainable industry for the county. After the hard lessons of the Gold Rush and the logging industry, sustainability is the goal for lots of folks across the spectrum of businesses here.

You can go a long way toward making sure your cannabis is eco friendly just by buying legal product from a licensed dispensary.

California has extremely strict guidelines as to what can and can’t be sold. Farms have to adhere to stringent guidelines concerning things like water usage, grading and pest control, and they can be inspected at any time. All cannabis is tracked from the cultivator to the distributor to the dispensary to the consumer.

All dispensaries in Humboldt County are licensed but elsewhere in the state, unlicensed outlets exist due to a lack of enforcement resources. They may even look like legal outlets. One way to check that out is to search a dispensary's name on Weedmaps.com, where the shop’s license will be posted, if it has one. You can also cross-reference that by going to the California Bureau of Cannabis Control and typing in the license number there (sometimes searching for a name in the BCC can get tricky since dispensaries aren’t allowed to have bank accounts).

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“ever-changing assortment of exotic and classic strains,” ADDING, “there is something in the catalog for every cannabis connoisseur.”

that looks for cannabinoid content (the amount of THC, CBD and other cannabinoids present), runs microbiological screening (for salmonella, E. coli and other bacteria), and checks for mycotoxins (mold) and heavy metals (cadmium, lead, arsenic and mercury), as well as moisture content.

The biggest category of testing, however, is for chemical residues — mainly pesticides and fungicides.

Flower products are tested for 66 different chemicals, including myclobutanil, pyrethrin and spinosads, to name just a few. Extracted products are tested against their own set of parameters, since the extraction process means any harmful chemicals present will be in a more concentrated form, just like the cannabinoids themselves.

Once the product gets to your local dispensary, the outlet gets info on the delivery person — including the year, make and model of their car — and who received the product in the store.

Then there’s a two-part signing process just to receive it.

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Even though California has certain rigid standards about how things can be grown — no pesticides that would harm wildlife, no stream diversion — there are still legally compliant farms around the state that use less eco-friendly and more energy-intensive methods for growing. For one thing, legal outdoor growing is always going to be the most eco-friendly, since 28

the product is grown in the sun instead of under energy-sucking grow lights. And since Humboldt County has the perfect climate for growing cannabis, it’s kind of a no-brainer. Many growers around our part of the Emerald Triangle also go the extra mile to incorporate rainwater catchment systems and solar power.

EcoCann sources as much product as possible from growers who are doing

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“Talking Trees focuses on exotic strains that are then made into top-shelf extracts, both solventless and solvent-free,” HE SAYS. “Listen to the Trees.”

everything they can to leave a smaller carbon footprint here in Humboldt. As a consumer, you’ve got a broad range of choices and the power to support farmers and companies that are going that extra mile. Asking for full-term or sun-grown Humboldt cannabis is a good place to start.

Kristin Kirby is a freelance writer based in Humboldt County.

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PLAYING FOOTBALL IN HIGH SCHOOL, Marcus Armstrong would consume up to 4,000 calories a day in order to gain body mass for the sport and he bulked up quickly. “By noon, you were at roughly 1,500 to 2,000 calories and by the end of the day, you were at 4,000,” he said. Once he graduated and started his career, he knew he no longer needed to be carrying so much weight. However, cutting back from consuming that many calories proved difficult and Armstrong, who has a background in kinesiology, began conducting personal diet and exercise experiments to discover what worked best for his overall well-being.

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energy and improved digestive tract through consuming juice mixed with herbs and spices. This is how he eventually came to start his brand Soma, a new herbal Ayurvedic* drink made right here in Humboldt.

So far, Soma, which means elixir of the gods in Sanskrit, consists of three different blends: Namaste, Namaskar and Shanti. Namaste is designed as an alternative to a caffeine beverage for the morning with herbs and spices that can help improve heart and liver health, including ashwagandha that can help relieve stress.

Namaskar is for a middle of the day pick-me-up and has ginkgo bilboa, which can improve brain function and memory. Finally, Shanti helps the body relax and prepare for rest with mugwort and valerian root.

“Juice is healthier than most people think, especially if you drink it the way it’s supposed to be drunk: morning, noon and night,” Armstrong explained.

“There’s a high amount of calories in the morning, lower consumption during the day and the least at night.” Although Armstrong thinks many people already know this, they don’t practice it. So he created the Soma beverages to make it easier to get the body on track.

Armstrong began surround*Ayurveda is a holistic ing himself with a multi-faceted health system that originated in the Indian team to help him get the project subcontinent thousands off the ground. This included of years ago and is practiced today. colleague Tommy Bastin, Ryan Moran and Mike Lyons of Humboldt Legends and Flower Co., and Nik Erikson of Full Moon Farms. Erikson became a believer in the product the very first time he tried the Namaste morning blend. “It personally changes my own morning habits,” he said. “When I have it, I will skip coffee and I feel way better throughout the day.” From there, the team went down to check out a bottling plant in Sacramento. Seeing the potential, they decided to embark on the Soma journey together.

Although Armstrong had already been working closely with an herbalist to develop the recipe, he wanted to go to the source of the ingredients.

So the team decided to go to the state of Kerala, India, where Bastin had family, and seek out herbs and spices to use in the beverages. The trip lasted almost six weeks and they spent time learning from

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the locals, from pulling ginger and turmeric out of the backyard to going on medicinal farm tours and learning about hundreds of different plants with various health benefits and healing properties.

“They’re still so in touch with nature’s original path,” Erikson said of his time in Kerala. “Looking back at a lot of ancient medicines, they start plantbased. I think we got derailed from that course with the onset of monetary value and wanting to produce things in a lab and make them synthetically.”

Their hosts showed them unparalleled hospitality and attentiveness. The team was struck by the sense of community and family pride, not to mention the cultural connection to the earth. “They forage with camels or cows behind them. Cut down this plant. Dig up these roots,” Armstrong said.

“Then you have, literally, truck beds full of herbs that they now go and divvy up between all the families every day.”

Besides procuring ingredients from these small farms, the Soma team and their hosts in India set up an information exchange to continue to learn from each other. “We’re doing a cross educational thing with them, as well, about farming practices and being sustainable because they still use a lot of plastics in their methodologies,” Erikson said. However, over the course of their time in Kerala, it became clear to the team that they wanted and needed to have a bigger impact on their host’s state.

The Soma team saw lots of natural beauty in Kerala, but they also saw a lot of litter. “When poverty and population cross, pollution follows because they don’t have the resources,” Erikson 34

explained. The whole team spoke at length about ways they could help the Indian state they are representing with their brand. Although it is still early and they are just getting ready for their soft launch in Humboldt County, they have major plans down the road. “I feel like it’s part of our duty to do that because we’re gaining a lot from that culture, so we need to give something back,” said Moran.

Once they returned to Humboldt and began work on launching the Soma product, they noticed a fault in their plan. Besides sourcing ingredients directly from India, they were almost entirely based in Humboldt from conception to distribution. However, their bottling plant was located in Sacramento. They wanted to be 100 percent Humboldt employed, so they shifted gears and found a new bottling plant in Fortuna. This move set the team back a bit for their soft launch but it was well worth it. “That is something that we hold precious, that we are keeping everything local, but we have this bond with India,” Armstrong said. “We’re not getting every single spice that we’re using from India but the bulk of the spices that we’re using are going to come from India.”

Down the line, Soma plans to launch a CBDinfused line of beverages. The CBD will be sourced from Humboldt at Erikson’s cannabis farm Full Moon Farms. These infused beverages will be clearly distinguishable from the standard version, even going under a different name, Somaras. In order to make this happen, however, the team must work closely with the farms in India to make sure it can pass the same stringent Category 3 testing that cannabis products in the United States have

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Upper left: Mike Lyons driving in the foothills overlooking tea plantations. Above: Celebrating the winners of the rickshaw race.

Upper right: A display of Kalari martial arts on the Indian Ocean.

Right: Thomas John of Little Flower Farms.

Far right: One of more than 40 rivers running through the mountains of Kerala. Bottom right: Tommy Bastin̒s father in his herb garden.

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to overcome. “It’s more intense than any other product on the market,” Moran said. “Something that we’re really starting to look into is how we can promote better farming practices and show these farmers how they can farm organically.”

Although CBD will be a part of the Soma brand eventually and many team members currently work in the cannabis industry, Soma is a Humboldtbased product rooted outside of that industry.

“This is purely an organic venture as a feel-good move outside of cannabis,” Erikson said. “I really think the cannabis industry can be draining at times and it’s good to have a positive focus outside of that angle.” That being said, legalization has blurred the line between the growing community and the non-growing community. Permitted farmers are using the opportunity to openly invest in the people, putting money into sustainable farming methods and donating to local nonprofits.

In a way, Soma is a bridge between the two communities, a team comprised of players inside and outside the cannabis realm, coming together to inspire change in their consumers, the Humboldt economy and abroad in India. They hope that their products encourage a healthier lifestyle full of natural energy throughout the day, mental and

physical peace, and a restful, rejuvenating night’s sleep. They firmly believe in a grassroots approach based in Humboldt County from local production to local distribution and marketing. Finally, they look forward to working with the farmers in Kerala on a cross-educational level, learning from each other, and hope to eventually benefit India outside of the state of Kerala. “It’s an India-meets-Humboldt thing,” Moran explained. “We’re all in Humboldt and not only do we want to have a positive impact here, but we also want to have a positive impact in India because we’re going to be representing India.”

In the team’s eyes, Soma is less of a beverage and more of an alternative lifestyle brand. Not only do they hope that people get behind the potential physical and mental transformative powers of the product, but they also hope people see the possibility for change on a grander scale through Soma.

“It feels so good to do something for you and for other people, something that you can really stand behind and creating a culture around it,” Moran said. “You are so fortunate if within your lifetime you can create a positive culture.”

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Arcata established the Cannabis Innovation Zone (CIZ) in an area zoned as Industrial General/Industrial Limited in the northern portion of the city, along State Route 299. The city began looking into creating a Medical Marijuana Innovation Zone (MMIZ) for cannabis back in the former Flakeboard plant in 2015 knowing the state would soon go legal. “In short, we chose the area because of the extractive resource industries that have been [there] for the past several years,” says Community Development Director David Loya. “The predominant industrial uses in that area were ideal for a number of reasons THE TYPICAL CANNABIS CONSUMER

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to establish this new zone.” Loya says the city has no intention of putting a cap on the number of facilities operating in the CIZ and welcomes as many as the market will support. “The cannabis industry needs support regionally and across the state. The county is placed well in the industry for historic reasons and the cannabis businesses are lucky to have support throughout the county in the various cities.”

A grand opening ceremony in November welcomed a new warehouse to the CIZ, which promises to bring at least 70 new jobs to Arcata. The building resides in the West End Campus, which is already occupied by BEAR Extraction House, Northern Emeralds, UpNorth Humboldt, Humboldt Apothecary, SOURCE Nursery, Humble Hill and Simple Solutions, with Arcata Processing Co. and Flower Company soon to join.

“The city of Arcata has been our biggest ally,” says Stacia Eliason of BEAR Extraction House, who has been involved in the CIZ

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Opposite: The Arcata Cannabis Innovation Zone.

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process since the very beginning. “We had just bought the old Wayne Bare trucking property with the intention to do cannabis on site ... the MMIZ concept came as a great and pleasant surprise to us since that was aligned with what we were hoping to do.” Eventually, the Arcata City Council decided to zone some 12 properties in Zone 1 and limited permits available in Zone 2. “After a couple years of building updates on our site, we were licensed to operate at the beginning of 2018.”

Similar to Arcata, Rio Dell established the Humboldt Rio Dell Business Park (HRDBP) located at the former sawmill situated along U.S. Highway 101 that has sat defunct for well over a decade. “The vision for the park is for it to be a value-added manufacturing center for the Emerald Triangle, although there is a good amount of interest and activity in cultivation itself,” says Rio Dell City Manager Kyle Knopp. “The city began aggressively looking into legalized cannabis in December of 2015. The HRDBP came about as a compromise by the city council that was divided over newly legalized cannabis.” Despite division among the council, it recognized the economic need in the community and the potential of legal cannabis.

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city. Along with the creation of 25 local jobs, Knopp says revenue from cannabis this year will be in the low six figures, which is a huge feat for such a small city. “A traditional non-cannabis business would need to do $15 million in annual taxable sales in order to generate the same revenue for city services. We will actually take in more cannabis tax revenue than any other city in the Emerald Triangle but we actually have one of the lowest rates of those cities that do have taxes.”

Knopp says there are currently six licensed facilities operating in the HRDBP: two manufacturers, a testing laboratory, one processor, one distributer and one indoor cultivator. “On the immediate horizon is another cultivation facility, one tester, one processor, a nursery (with a tissue culture facility) and two dispensaries. We also have another four projects in various stages of early development.” Most of the operators in the business park take in product from unincorporated portions of the county, with some coming from Mendocino and Trinity, as well.

Eureka has taken a slightly different approach, choosing to allow cannabis manufacturing throughout the city. The majority of cannabis manufacturers have set up shop in the Hinge District, along U.S. Highway 101 between Broadway and A Street.

“It wasn’t necessarily intended to become the epicenter of cannabis manufacturing in Humboldt County, it just happened to benefit from a mix of the right zoning and a location outside of the Coastal Zone,” says Rob Dumouchel, Eureka’s acting planning and building manager. “All of the industrially zoned parcels in the city are in the HUMBOLDT CANNABIS

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Coastal Zone except for those found in the Hinge between Third and Fourth streets, what some colloquially refer to as ‘Extraction Alley.’” Dumouchel says the city of Eureka wanted to avoid creating a special cannabis overlay district and instead chose to look at cannabis manufacturing as a regular manufacturing use. “If it’s appropriate for manufacturing to exist in a commercial or industrial zone district, then there’s really no reason that cannabis manufacturing can’t be included within it.”

The city has received approximately 40 manufacturing applications, half of which have been approved to operate. “I think it’s important to understand that cannabis manufacturing exists along a wide spectrum,” says Dumouchel. “On one end, we have big companies like Papa & Barkley that have a large and efficient manufacturing operation spread across multiple locations in the city. In the middle, we have small businesses that have found success with great products and branding, like Kiskanu or Space Gem. We also have operations that are just two dudes in a small commercial space making bath bombs and pre-rolls.”

Papa & Barkley has taken an unusual approach with its spread across Eureka, akin to its distinctive take on processing cannabis. Adam Grossman founded Papa & Barkley in 2016 in honor of his father and his father’s dog, Barkley. The company’s signature Releaf Balm was initially created by Grossman in an effort to relieve his father’s debilitating back pain and get him out of hospice care. Ultimately, the experience inspired Grossman to perfect his process and share it with others.

What is unique about Papa & Barkley is its whole plant infusion process, which simply uses water, heat and pressure. Dave Aumentado, production facilities manager, led a tour through Papa & Barkley’s Second Street facility, where the full process

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can be observed. Upon walking into the 9,000-square-foot building, you’re hit with the rousing scent of cannabis, peppermint and lavender. As we made our way into the processing portion of the facility, jovial employees were checking and placing lids on freshly filled jars of their signature Releaf Balm along an assembly line. A Nirvana track played over the commotion of machines and employees.

Aumentado walked me through the whole plant infusion process from start to finish. It begins with cannabis grown by any of the 150 Emerald Triangle farms the company partners with. “When legalization came up, there was this fear that a lot of [small farmers] wouldn’t be able to make it,” says Aumentado. “We found a once-ina-lifetime opportunity, here at the end of prohibition, to be able to set the standard for what we want to see in the industry. Supporting local farmers is a part of that.”

The trim and small buds are packaged in 2-pound black bags and taken to a tumbler that shakes the keef, or resinous trichomes, away from the plant material.

That keef is packaged and labeled, and will eventually make its way into little white sleeves that are pressed under high heat. “Essentially, this is extracting cannabinoid content in the form of a concentrate,” says Aumentado. The end product is rosin that is eventually used for Releaf capsules and patches.

The plant material left over after keefing is soaked with organic coconut oil. The infused oil is eventually pressed and filtered away from the plant matter. The oil is then blended with beeswax and essential oils, and packaged as Releaf salves and balms.

Aumentado says Papa & Barkley is bursting at the seams — that’s why it decided to move into the new facility at the south end of Eureka. The company will still operate in the locations spread across Eureka but the new location will be the hub.

Papa & Barkley is just one example of a Humboldt-based cannabis business focused on staying local. And that’s a task made easier when processing finds welcoming space. Eureka’s approach to zoning for cannabis manufacturing may be different from Arcata or Rio Dell, but one thing remains clear: Each municipality is focused on maintaining the Humboldt brand by supporting local farmers and local cannabis businesses.

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Trinity Diesel • 5065 Boyd Rd Arcata (707) 826-8400 • trinitydiesel.com

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Farm Directory Aloha Humboldt CANNABIS

Pre-Rolls 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 ORDERING INFORMATION

Aloha Humboldt alohahumboldt.com UpNorth Humboldt - Distributors info@upnorthhumboldt.com 707-840-6263 @alohahumboldt

Bear Extraction House CONCENTRATES

Live Resin Peanut Butter Breath (74% THC, 6.4% Terpenes) Forbidden Fruit (74% THC, 8.9% Terpenes) Ice Cream Cake (74% THC, 6.5% Terpenes) Sherbet (78% THC, 4.8% Terpenes) Cartridges Banana OG (66% THC, 11.3% Terpenes) Lemon Tree (68% THC, 12.8% Terpenes) Gelato 33 (83% THC, 6.0% Terpenes) ORDERING INFORMATION

URSA Extracts sales@ursaextracts.com @ursaextracts WOX Extracts wox@woxextracts.com @woxextracts

Orange Cookies Royale w/ Cheese Shark Shock Underdog Wedding Cake ORDERING INFORMATION

True Humboldt Truehumboldt.com 707-444-TRUE

Full Moon Farms CANNABIS

Flower Banana Mango Blueberry Gelato Blueberry Zkittles Caramel Cream Cream Brullee Gas Station GG#4 Lemon Grass Louie OG Luna Cookiesy Mac 1 Magic Melon Northern Berry Pineapple Upside Down Cake Squirt Vanilla Frosting Venom Gelato White Tahoe Cookies Wille G ORDERING INFORMATION

Humboldt Legends flowercompany.com Peak Industries info@peakindustries.com Altum Mind altummind.com info@altummind.com 707-517-6463 Sisu sisuextracts.com sales@sisuextracts.com 707-475-3833 UpNorth Humboldt - Distributors info@upnorthhumboldt.com 707-840-6263

Briceland Forest Farm

The Heart of Humboldt

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Flower Cuddlebud ORDERING INFORMATION

Briceland Forest Farm bricelandforestfarm@gmail.com

Emerald Queen Farms

Flower Crippler Fire Kush Pandora ORDERING INFORMATION

The Heart of Humboldt theheartofhumboldt.com theheartofhumboldt@gmail.com 707-822-9330

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HendRx CANNABIS

Clones 1 Haze 20-Year Trainwreck Banana Punch Banana Split Blueberry Muffin No. 4 Blueberry Wedding Cake No. 24 Calihari Kush Candy Cane Candy Chrome Carmel Cream Charlie Girl Chocolate Hashberry Chocolate Malawi Eagle Scout Ebola No. 7 Flow White Freakshow Gelato Gelonade Granimals GSC Guava Kush Honey Banana Ice Cream Cake Inside Out Jager Lemon Tree MAC Melon Magic Melon Mai Tai Marshmallow OG Mochi Gelato Mother’s Milk No. 31 NF1 Notorious THC O’Geezus OG Kush 4.21 Papaya Punch Pineapple Upside Down Cake Purple Apricot Purple Punch Raspberry Parfait Ringo’s Gift CBD Runtz Skycuddler Kush Skywalker OG Slurricane SlurriMAC So Hum OG Squirt Strawberries & Cream Strawberry Shortcake Sundae Driver No. 6 T1000 Tangie The Bling The Grow Off NorCal 2019 The MAC Trident CBD Vanilla Frosting Venom OG Wedding Cake Wedding Cake Bx Wedding Tree No. 53 White Runtz XJ-13 Zkittles Zookies

Seeds 7 Layer Cake Calihari Kush Ebola No. 7 Equilibrium CBD Valley Girl Wedding Tree ORDERING INFORMATION

HendRx HendRx.farm info@hendrx.farm 707-840-5667

Honeydew Valley Farms CANNABIS

Flower Blue Dream Gelato GSC Lemonade Mike Larry OG Motor Breath OG Purple Punch Sherbert Sundae Driver Wedding Cake Wedding Crasher ORDERING INFORMATION

Honeydew Valley Farms brent@honeydewvalley farms.com 707-225-0098 @honeydewvalleyfarms

Humboldt Alchemy Group Concentrates Balanced-Hybrid (THC) Cannatonic (“Feel the Magic” CBD 6:1, award winning) Elevated-Sativa(THC, award winning), Groovy-Rainbow Applesauce (“Feel the Magic” CBD 2:1) Mountain Medicine (“Feel the Magic” CBD 1:1) Relaxed-Indica (THC) ORDERING INFORMATION

Humboldt Alchemy Group, Kris Johnson krisj@humboldt-alchemy group.com 707-602-5986

Humboldt Brand CANNABIS

Flower Blue Dream - Old Growth Cannabis Cuvee Cookies - Mountains of the Moon

FARMS

Fire OG - Humboldt Redwood Healing Gelato - Love Gelato GMO Cookies - Humboldt Cure Green Lantern - Ridgeline Farms GSC - Old Growth Cannabis Ice Cream Cake - Higher Ground Agriculture Ice Cream Cake - Ridgeline Farms Jack Herer - Love Humboldt MAC1 - Love Humboldt MAC1 - Stanky Dank Farms Mimosa - Higher Ground Agriculture OB1 OG - Humboldt Redwood Healing Pineapple Moon - Mountains of the Moon Platinum GSC - Old Growth Cannabis Purple Punch - Old Growth Cannabis Ridgeline Runtz - Ridgeline Farms Sherbet Reserve Skunk Face OG - Humboldt Redwood Healing Slurricane - Stanky Dank Farms Sour D - Sacred Garden Sour G - Humboldt Redwood Healing Sunset Sherbet - Old Growth Cannabis Wedding Cake - Ridgeline Farms Wedding Crasher - Stanky Dank White Runtz - Humboldt Redwood Healing Zurple - Highwaters Farm Pre-Rolls Platinum Cookies - ACME Romulan - ACME CONCENTRATES

Live Badder Pinot Kush - Humboldt Cure Live Resin Punch Berries - Humboldt Cure Live Sauce Orange Punch HTE - Humboldt Brand Pink Champagne - Humboldt Brand Zombie Fields - Humboldt Cure ORDERING INFORMATION

Humboldt Brand humboldtbrand.com bsherr@humboldtbrand.com 707-725-9377 @TheHumboldtBrand

Humboldt Legends Visit our website for a full list of products ORDERING INFORMATION

Humboldt Legends flowercompany.com

Humboldt Seed Company CANNABIS

Seeds AK 47 20 Regulars All Gas OG 10 Feminized ++ AKA Asphalt Plant ++ AKA Venom OG ++ All Gas OG 20 Regulars ++ AKA Asphalt Plant ++ AKA Venom OG ++ Amethyst 20 Regulars Apricot Papaya 20 Regulars Banana Mango 10 Feminized New for 2020 Banana Mango 20 Regulars Bigfoot Glue 10 Feminized Bigfoot Glue 20 Regulars Blueberry Muffin 10 Feminized Blueberry Muffin 20 Regulars California Sour Diesel 10 Feminized New for 2020 California Sour Diesel 20 Regulars Caramel Cream 10 Feminized New for 2020 Collie Man Kush 10 Feminized New for 2020 Collie Man Kush 20 Regulars Don Carlos 10 Feminized New for 2020 Don Carlos 20 Regulars Dream Queen 20 Regulars Dream Queen 20 Regulars Retail Box Early Girl OG Hybrid 10 Feminized New for 2020 Emerald Fire OG 10 Feminized ++ AKA Fire OG ++ Emerald Fire OG 20 Regulars ++ AKA Fire OG ++ Family Jewels 10 Feminized New for 2020 Freak Show 10 Feminized New for 2020 Freak Show 20 Regular New for 2020 G.S. Cookies 10 Feminized G.S. Cookies 20 Regulars Grow Your Own 10 Feminized 3 Bigfoot Glue, 3 G.S. Cookies, 4 Blueberry Muffin Hi-biscus 10 Feminized New for 2020 Humboldt Dream 10 Feminized New for 2020 Humboldt Dream 20 Regulars Humboldt Headband 10 Feminized Humboldt Headband 20 Regulars Humboldt Sour Diesel 10 Feminized New for 2020 Humboldt Sour Diesel 20 Regulars Jack Herer 20 Regulars Lemon Kush 10 Feminized New for 2020 Lemon Kush 20 Regulars Lemongrass 10 Feminized Lemongrass 20 Regulars Magic Melon 10 Feminized Magic Melon 20 Regulars Magic Melon Auto Flower 10 Feminized ++ AKA Solstice Auto Flower ++

Mango Sherbert 10 Feminized New for 2020 Mango Sherbert 20 Regulars Mango Trees 20 Regulars Notorious THC 10 Feminized New for 2020 OG Kush 10 Feminized OG Kush 20 Regulars Old Growth OG 20 Regulars Peach Cobbler 10 Feminized New for 2020 Pineapple Muffin 10 Feminized Pineapple Muffin 20 Regulars Pineapple Upside Down Cake 10 Feminized New for 2020 Pineapple Upside Down Cake 20 Regulars PPD 10 Feminized New for 2020 PPD 20 Regulars Purple Mountain Majesty 10 Feminized Purple Mountain Majesty 20 Regulars Raspberry Parfait 10 Feminized New for 2020 Royal Highness 10 Feminized New for 2020 Royal Highness 20 Regulars Sol Mate Auto Flower 10 Feminized New for 2020 Spring Fling Autoflower 10 Feminized New for 2020 Squirt 10 Feminized New for 2020 Stoopid Fruits 10 Feminized New for 2020 Stoopid Fruits 20 Regulars Sweet Annie 1:1 20 Regulars The Bling 10 Feminized New for 2020 Trainwreck 10 Feminized New for 2020 Trainwreck 20 Regulars Truffula Tree 20 Regulars Vanilla Frosting 10 Feminized New for 2020 Vanilla Frosting 20 Regulars Very Cherry 20 Regulars Wedding Tree 20 Regular New for 2020 Willy G’s Lebanese 20 Regulars ORDERING INFORMATION

Humboldt Seed Company info@HumboldtSeed Company.com Leaf Link LeafLink.com

Humboldt’s Legacy Farms CANNABIS

Flower Ice Cream Cake Sundae Driver Watermelon Gelato Watermelon Lifesavers Pre-Rolls Ice Cream Cake Sundae Driver

Watermelon Gelato Watermelon Lifesavers ORDERING INFORMATION

Humboldt’s Legacy Farms humboldtslegacyfarms.com info@humboldtslegacyfarms.com 707-601-6318

Humboldt’s Dankest CANNABIS

Flower Blue Cookies Cherry Lemonade Dosi Breath Fruity Peebles OG Wedding Mints CONCENTRATES

Cartridges Banana Kush Dream Queen Gelato Distillate SFV OG Live Resin OG Sours - Diamonds with Terp Sauce Zkittles ORDERING INFORMATION

Humboldt’s Dankest humboldtsdankest.com humboldtsdankest@gmail.com

Kiskanu CANNABIS

Flower Black Label Premium Flower Pre-rolls 5 Pack Premium Pre-Rolls Single Pre-Roll TOPICALS

Balms CBD Skin Rub Cannabis Skin Rub Body & Bath CBD Face Oil Cannabis Face Oil Cannabis Suppositories Intimacy Oil CBD Intimacy Oil Cannabis Intimacy Oil ORDERING INFORMATION

Kiskanu kiskanuhemp.com 707-798-6361 @kiskanu

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Flower Purple Anarchy ORDERING INFORMATION

True Humboldt truehumboldt.com info@truehumboldt.com 707-444-8783

Papa & Barkley EDIBLES

Capsules Releaf Capsules 1:3 THC Rich Releaf Capsules 30:1 CBD Rich NATURAL HEALTH

Body & Bath Releaf Body Oil 1:3 THC Rich Releaf Patch 1:1 Releaf Soak 1:3 THC Rich TOPICALS

Balms Releaf Balm 1:3 THC Rich Balms Releaf Balm 3:1 CBD Rich Tinctures Living Tincture: THCa Releaf Patch CBD Releaf Tincture 1:1 Releaf Tincture 1:3 THC Rich Releaf Tincture 1:30 THC RIch Releaf Tincture 30:1 CBD Rich Transdermal Patches Releaf Patch 1:3 THC Rich Releaf Patch 3:1 CBD RIch ORDERING INFORMATION

Papa & Barkley sales@papaandbarkley.com 888-981-9978 Customer Service help@papaandbarkley.com 844-234-8416

Peak

CONCENTRATES

Bubble Hash Blue Dream (THC 44.68%) Dark Dosi (THC 43.83%) Super Sour OG (THC 47.9%) Cartridges Durban Poison (THC 63.3%) Gelato (THC 50%) Karrot Cake (THC 65%) Live Resin 24K (THC 71.02%) Gelato (THC 64.43%) Miss USA (THC 70.38%) Original Glue (THC 75.8%) Sour Patch Kids (THC 65%) Wedding Cake (THC 69.02%) EDIBLES

Capsules CBD Capsules 9:1 RSO 2.0 CBD 3:1 ORDERING INFORMATION

CANNABIS

Flower Animal Cookies (indoor, THC 19.8%) Biscotti (THC 18.04%) Blackjack (THC 18.06%) Blue Garlic #4 (THC 20.42%) Blue Garlic #5 (THC 24.31%) Blueberry Muffin (THC 22.47%) Blueberry Muffinz (THC 23.71%) Cookies (THC 22.54%) Creme Brulee (THC 13.25%) Dandyland (THC 20.75%) Delato (THC 24.97%) Dosidos (THC 25.67%) Double Rainbow Sherbet (THC 23.1%) GG4 (THC 20.55%) GMO Cookies (indoor, THC 27.92%) Gorilla Sundae 2 (THC 17.02%) Gorilla’s Revenge (THC 17.59%) GSC (THC 19.8%) Hammer Time (THC 24.4%) Hindu Zkittlez (THC 23.89%) Ice Queen Sundae (THC 25.28%)

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Key Lime Pie (THC 16.85%) Lemon Diesel (THC 20.36%) Luna Cookies (THC 15.14%) Mendo Breath (THC 22.54%) Mimosa (THC 25.15%) Northern Berry (THC 21.43%) OG KUSH (THC 23.26%) OG KUSH (THC 23.49%) OG KUSH (THC 23.87%) Orangeade (THC 21.8%) Punch Breath (THC 23.29%) Purple Punch (THC 22.7%) Sherbet X (THC 24.68%) Snow X OG (THC 22.2%) Sour Snow (THC 26.95%) Strawnana (THC 19.66%) Sundae Driver (THC 14.64%) The Big Ol’ Bud (THC 16.17%) The Bling (THC 23.2%) Thin Mint (indoor, THC 20.45%) Thin Mint (THC 19.25%) Vanilla Frosting (THC 26.24%) Wedding Cake (THC 21.04%) Wedding Cake (THC 24.18%) Zkittlez (indoor, THC 21.84%) Pre-Rolls Bizcotti (THC 16.52%) Neapolitan (THC 21.03%) Pink Sunset (THC 26.27%)

Peak Industries info@peakindustries.com

Plant Humboldt CANNABIS

Plants Sexed female seed-grown plants in 2 gal. bags (strains vary) Cutting-grown plants in 4-inch pots (strains vary) ORDERING INFORMATION

Plant Humboldt planthumboldt.com orders@planthumboldt.com 707-923-5063

Redwood Roots CANNABIS

Flower Gelato 33 GMO Cookies

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Green Lantern Ice Cream Cake Jeds Diamond OG Lady Africa Lady Royal Lucy Lavender Mac 1 Mimosa Rose Water Zkittles Runtz Samoa OG Sunday Driver Sunset Sherbert Tahoe Venom Tangimal White Runtz Kief Gelato 33 GMO Cookies Green Lantern Ice Cream Cake Jeds Diamond OG Lady Africa Lady Royal Lucy Lavender Mac 1 Mimosa Rose Water Zkittles Runtz Samoa OG Sunday Driver Sunset Sherbert Tahoe Venom Tangimal White Runtz Pre-Rolls Gelato 33 GMO Cookies Green Lantern Ice Cream Cake Jeds Diamond OG Lady Africa Lady Royal Lucy Lavender Mac 1 Mimosa Rose Water Zkittles Runtz Samoa OG Sunday Driver Sunset Sherbert Tahoe Venom Tangimal White Runtz CONCENTRATES

Cartridges Various Strains .5ml & 1ml Live Resin Various Strains .5ml & 1ml ORDERING INFORMATION

Redwood Roots redwoodrootsfamily.com 707-923-1236

Sunrise Mountain Farms CANNABIS

Flower / Sungrown Dosi Punch Pre-Rolls Sour Patch

ORDERING INFORMATION

Sunrise Mountain Farms sunrisemountainfarms.com @sunrisemountainfarms

Villa Paradiso CANNABIS

Flower Berry Nectar Nectar 99 Rattlesnake OG ORDERING INFORMATION

Villa Paradiso villaparadisofarms.com robertoluigi@villaparadiso farms.com 707-272-7196 @villparadisofarms

Xotic Flavorz CANNABIS

Flower Xotic Brand, strains vary, 0.5 oz bags Xotic Brand, strains vary, 1 oz bags Pre-Rolls Xotic Brand, strains vary ORDERING INFORMATION

Xotic Flavorz 707-616-1359 trevor@xoticflavorz.com Emerald Family Farms sales@emeraldfamilyfarms.com

PRODUCTS

Product Directory

Cannabis CLONES HendRx 1 Haze 20-Year Trainwreck Banana Punch Banana Split Blueberry Muffin No. 4 Blueberry Wedding Cake No. 24 Calihari Kush Candy Cane Candy Chrome Carmel Cream Charlie Girl Chocolate Hashberry Chocolate Malawi Eagle Scout Ebola No. 7 Flow White Freakshow Gelato Gelonade Granimals GSC Guava Kush Honey Banana Ice Cream Cake Inside Out Jager Lemon Tree MAC Melon Magic Melon Mai Tai Marshmallow OG Mochi Gelato Mother’s Milk No. 31 NF1 Notorious THC O’Geezus OG Kush 4.21 Papaya Punch Pineapple Upside Down Cake Purple Apricot Purple Punch Raspberry Parfait Ringo’s Gift CBD Runtz Skycuddler Kush Skywalker OG Slurricane SlurriMAC So Hum OG Squirt Strawberries & Cream Strawberry Shortcake Sundae Driver No. 6 T1000 Tangie The Bling The Grow Off NorCal 2019 The MAC Trident CBD Vanilla Frosting Venom OG Wedding Cake

Wedding Cake Bx Wedding Tree No. 53 White Runtz XJ-13 Zkittles Zookies

FLOWER Briceland Forest Farm Cuddlebud Emerald Queen Farms Koko Kush Orange Cookies Royale w/ Cheese Shark Shock Underdog Wedding Cake Full Moon Farms Banana Mango Blueberry Gelato Blueberry Zkittles Caramel Cream Cream Brullee Gas Station GG#4 Lemon Grass Louie OG Luna Cookiesy Mac 1 Magic Melon Northern Berry Pineapple Upside Down Cake Squirt Vanilla Frosting Venom Gelato White Tahoe Cookies Wille G The Heart of Humboldt Crippler Fire Kush Pandora Honeydew Valley Farms Blue Dream Gelato GSC Lemonade Mike Larry OG Motor Breath OG Purple Punch Sherbert Sundae Driver Wedding Cake Wedding Crasher Humboldt Brand Blue Dream - Old Growth Cannabis Cuvee Cookies - Mountains of the Moon Fire OG - Humboldt Redwood Healing Gelato - Love Gelato

GMO Cookies - Humboldt Cure Green Lantern - Ridgeline Farms GSC - Old Growth Cannabis Ice Cream Cake - Higher Ground Agriculture Ice Cream Cake - Ridgeline Farms Jack Herer - Love Humboldt MAC1 - Love Humboldt MAC1 - Stanky Dank Farms Mimosa - Higher Ground Agriculture OB1 OG - Humboldt Redwood Healing Pineapple Moon - Mountains of the Moon Platinum GSC - Old Growth Cannabis Purple Punch - Old Growth Cannabis Ridgeline Runtz - Ridgeline Farms Sherbet Reserve Skunk Face OG - Humboldt Redwood Healing Slurricane - Stanky Dank Farms Sour D - Sacred Garden Sour G - Humboldt Redwood Healing Sunset Sherbet - Old Growth Cannabis Wedding Cake - Ridgeline Farms Wedding Crasher - Stanky Dank White Runtz - Humboldt Redwood Healing Zurple - Highwaters Farm Humboldt’s Dankest Blue Cookies Cherry Lemonade Dosi Breath Fruity Peebles OG Wedding Mints Humboldt’s Legacy Farms Ice Cream Cake Sundae Driver Watermelon Gelato Watermelon Lifesavers Kiskanu Black Label Premium Flower Lagniappe Farm Purple Anarchy Peak Animal Cookies (indoor, THC 19.8%) Biscotti (THC 18.04%) Blackjack (THC 18.06%) Blue Garlic #4 (THC 20.42%) Blue Garlic #5 (THC 24.31%) Blueberry Muffin (THC 22.47%) Blueberry Muffinz (THC 23.71%) Cookies (THC 22.54%) Creme Brulee (THC 13.25%) Dandyland (THC 20.75%) Delato (THC 24.97%) Dosidos (THC 25.67%)

Double Rainbow Sherbet (THC 23.1%) GG4 (THC 20.55%) GMO Cookies (indoor, THC 27.92%) Gorilla Sundae 2 (THC 17.02%) Gorilla’s Revenge (THC 17.59%) GSC (THC 19.8%) Hammer Time (THC 24.4%) Hindu Zkittlez (THC 23.89%) Ice Queen Sundae (THC 25.28%) Key Lime Pie (THC 16.85%) Lemon Diesel (THC 20.36%) Luna Cookies (THC 15.14%) Mendo Breath (THC 22.54%) Mimosa (THC 25.15%) Northern Berry (THC 21.43%) OG KUSH (THC 23.26%) OG KUSH (THC 23.49%) OG KUSH (THC 23.87%) Orangeade (THC 21.8%) Punch Breath (THC 23.29%) Purple Punch (THC 22.7%) Sherbet X (THC 24.68%) Snow X OG (THC 22.2%) Sour Snow (THC 26.95%) Strawnana (THC 19.66%) Sundae Driver (THC 14.64%) The Big Ol’ Bud (THC 16.17%) The Bling (THC 23.2%) Thin Mint (indoor, THC 20.45%) Thin Mint (THC 19.25%) Vanilla Frosting (THC 26.24%) Wedding Cake (THC 21.04%) Wedding Cake (THC 24.18%) Zkittlez (indoor, THC 21.84%) Redwood Roots Gelato 33 GMO Cookies Green Lantern Ice Cream Cake Jeds Diamond OG Lady Africa Lady Royal Lucy Lavender Mac 1 Mimosa Rose Water Zkittles Runtz Samoa OG Sunday Driver Sunset Sherbert Tahoe Venom Tangimal White Runtz Sunrise Mountain Farms Dosi Punch Villa Paradiso Berry Nectar Nectar 99 Rattlesnake OG Xotic Flavorz Xotic Brand, strains vary, 0.5 oz bags Xotic Brand, strains vary, 1 oz bags

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KIEF Redwood Roots Gelato 33 GMO Cookies Green Lantern Ice Cream Cake Jeds Diamond OG Lady Africa Lady Royal Lucy Lavender Mac 1 Mimosa Rose Water Zkittles Runtz Samoa OG Sunday Driver Sunset Sherbert Tahoe Venom Tangimal White Runtz

PLANTS Plant Humboldt Sexed female seed-grown plants in 2 gal. bags (strains vary) Cutting-grown plants in 4-inch pots (strains vary)

PRE-ROLLS 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 Humboldt Brand Platinum Cookies - ACME Romulan - ACME Humboldt’s Legacy Farms Ice Cream Cake Sundae Driver Watermelon Gelato Watermelon Lifesavers Kiskanu 5 Pack Premium Pre-Rolls Single Pre-Roll Peak Bizcotti (THC 16.52%) Neapolitan (THC 21.03%) Pink Sunset (THC 26.27%) Redwood Roots Gelato 33 GMO Cookies Green Lantern Ice Cream Cake Jeds Diamond OG Lady Africa Lady Royal Lucy Lavender Mac 1 Mimosa Rose Water Zkittles

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Runtz Samoa OG Sunday Driver Sunset Sherbert Tahoe Venom Tangimal White Runtz Sunrise Mountain Farms Sour Patch Xotic Flavorz Xotic Brand, strains vary

SEEDS HendRx 7 Layer Cake Calihari Kush Ebola No. 7 Equilibrium CBD Valley Girl Wedding Tree Humboldt Seed Company AK 47 20 Regulars All Gas OG 10 Feminized ++ AKA Asphalt Plant ++ AKA Venom OG ++ All Gas OG 20 Regulars ++ AKA Asphalt Plant ++ AKA Venom OG ++ Amethyst 20 Regulars Apricot Papaya 20 Regulars Banana Mango 10 Feminized New for 2020 Banana Mango 20 Regulars Bigfoot Glue 10 Feminized Bigfoot Glue 20 Regulars Blueberry Muffin 10 Feminized Blueberry Muffin 20 Regulars California Sour Diesel 10 Feminized New for 2020 California Sour Diesel 20 Regulars Caramel Cream 10 Feminized New for 2020 Collie Man Kush 10 Feminized New for 2020 Collie Man Kush 20 Regulars Don Carlos 10 Feminized New for 2020 Don Carlos 20 Regulars Dream Queen 20 Regulars Dream Queen 20 Regulars Retail Box Early Girl OG Hybrid 10 Feminized New for 2020 Emerald Fire OG 10 Feminized ++ AKA Fire OG ++ Emerald Fire OG 20 Regulars ++ AKA Fire OG ++ Family Jewels 10 Feminized New for 2020 Freak Show 10 Feminized New for 2020 Freak Show 20 Regular New for 2020 G.S. Cookies 10 Feminized G.S. Cookies 20 Regulars Grow Your Own 10 Feminized 3 Bigfoot Glue, 3 G.S. Cookies, 4 Blueberry Muffin Hi-biscus 10 Feminized New for 2020

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Humboldt Dream 10 Feminized New for 2020 Humboldt Dream 20 Regulars Humboldt Headband 10 Feminized Humboldt Headband 20 Regulars Humboldt Sour Diesel 10 Feminized New for 2020 Humboldt Sour Diesel 20 Regulars Jack Herer 20 Regulars Lemon Kush 10 Feminized New for 2020 Lemon Kush 20 Regulars Lemongrass 10 Feminized Lemongrass 20 Regulars Magic Melon 10 Feminized Magic Melon 20 Regulars Magic Melon Auto Flower 10 Feminized ++ AKA Solstice Auto Flower ++ Mango Sherbert 10 Feminized New for 2020 Mango Sherbert 20 Regulars Mango Trees 20 Regulars Notorious THC 10 Feminized New for 2020 OG Kush 10 Feminized OG Kush 20 Regulars Old Growth OG 20 Regulars Peach Cobbler 10 Feminized New for 2020 Pineapple Muffin 10 Feminized Pineapple Muffin 20 Regulars Pineapple Upside Down Cake 10 Feminized New for 2020 Pineapple Upside Down Cake 20 Regulars PPD 10 Feminized New for 2020 PPD 20 Regulars Purple Mountain Majesty 10 Feminized Purple Mountain Majesty 20 Regulars Raspberry Parfait 10 Feminized New for 2020 Royal Highness 10 Feminized New for 2020 Royal Highness 20 Regulars Sol Mate Auto Flower 10 Feminized New for 2020 Spring Fling Autoflower 10 Feminized New for 2020 Squirt 10 Feminized New for 2020 Stoopid Fruits 10 Feminized New for 2020 Stoopid Fruits 20 Regulars Sweet Annie 1:1 20 Regulars The Bling 10 Feminized New for 2020 Trainwreck 10 Feminized New for 2020 Trainwreck 20 Regulars Truffula Tree 20 Regulars Vanilla Frosting 10 Feminized New for 2020 Vanilla Frosting 20 Regulars Very Cherry 20 Regulars Wedding Tree 20 Regular New for 2020 Willy G’s Lebanese 20 Regulars

Concentrates BUBBLE HASH Peak Blue Dream (THC 44.68%) Dark Dosi (THC 43.83%) Super Sour OG (THC 47.9%)

CARTRIDGES Bear Extraction House Banana OG (66% THC, 11.3% Terpenes) Lemon Tree (68% THC, 12.8% Terpenes) Gelato 33 (83% THC, 6.0% Terpenes) Humboldt Alchemy Group Balanced-Hybrid (THC) Cannatonic (“Feel the Magic” CBD 6:1, award winning) Elevated-Sativa(THC, award winning), Groovy-Rainbow Applesauce (“Feel the Magic” CBD 2:1) Mountain Medicine (“Feel the Magic” CBD 1:1) Relaxed-Indica (THC) Humboldt’s Dankest Banana Kush Dream Queen Gelato Distillate SFV OG Peak Durban Poison (THC 63.3%) Gelato (THC 50%) Karrot Cake (THC 65%) Redwood Roots Various Strains .5ml & 1ml

LIVE BADDER Humboldt Brand Pinot Kush - Humboldt Cure

LIVE RESIN Bear Extraction House Peanut Butter Breath (74% THC, 6.4% Terpenes) Forbidden Fruit (74% THC, 8.9% Terpenes) Ice Cream Cake (74% THC, 6.5% Terpenes) Sherbet (78% THC, 4.8% Terpenes) Humboldt Brand Punch Berries - Humboldt Cure Humboldt’s Dankest OG Sours - Diamonds with Terp Sauce Zkittles Peak 24K (THC 71.02%) Gelato (THC 64.43%)

PRODUCTS

Miss USA (THC 70.38%) Original Glue (THC 75.8%) Sour Patch Kids (THC 65%) Wedding Cake (THC 69.02%) Redwood Roots Various Strains .5ml & 1ml

TINCTURES Papa & Barkley Living Tincture: THCa Releaf Patch CBD Releaf Tincture 1:1 Releaf Tincture 1:3 THC Rich Releaf Tincture 1:30 THC RIch Releaf Tincture 30:1 CBD Rich

LIVE SAUCE Humboldt Brand Orange Punch HTE - Humboldt Brand Pink Champagne - Humboldt Brand Zombie Fields - Humboldt Cure

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

Edibles CAPSULES Papa & Barkley Releaf Capsules 1:3 THC Rich Releaf Capsules 30:1 CBD Rich Peak CBD Capsules 9:1 RSO 2.0 CBD 3:1

Natural Health BODY & BATH Papa & Barkley Releaf Body Oil 1:3 THC Rich Releaf Patch 1:1 Releaf Soak 1:3 THC Rich

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

BODY & BATH Kiskanu CBD Face Oil Cannabis Face Oil Cannabis Suppositories

INTIMACY OIL Kiskanu CBD Intimacy Oil Cannabis Intimacy Oil

Photograph courtesy of Humboldt Seed Company.

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HISTORY + CULTURE

HUMBOLDT CANNABIS MAGAZINE congratulates the Humboldt cultivators who won awards at the 2019

50%

39 winners

Sungrown flower wins

8

first place wins

BHO LIQUID first – Zkittles | Terp Hogz / Humboldt Terp Council second – Banjo | Humboldt Terp Council third – ErrlHill BlueBerryMuffins live resin from Humboldt Seed Co. | ErrlHill / Humboldt Seed Co. fourth – Forbidden Jelly Suprize | Suprize Suprize / Neukom Family Farms fifth – Peach Z | Humboldt Terp Council

BHO SOLID first – Rainbow Driver Suprize | Suprize Suprize / Sabertooth Farms second – Strawberry Banana Batter ArcataX | Royal Budline fourth – Hibiscus Batter ArcataX | Fire Mountain Farm / Humboldt Seed Co.

CARTS - CO2 first – Nectar - Ancient Lime | Eel River Organics second – Elevated Sativa Vape Cartridge | Humboldt Alchemy Group fourth – Key Lime Pie 1902 | Wildseed fifth – Forbidden Fruit 1901 | Wildseed

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CARTS - LIVE RESIN fifth – URSA Liquid Diamond Sauce Cartridge | Lemon Tree URSA Extracts

CBD - TINCTURE first – Lady Benbow Full Spectrum High CBD Tincture SG | Chemistry / Lady Sativa Farms third – Wellbeing CBD Rich | Humboldt Harvest

CBD - CARTS second – Cannatonic 6:1 CBD Vape Pen Cartridge | Humboldt Alchemy Group

CBD - FLOWER third – Harle Bubba | Amaranth Farms

EDIBLES - SWEET second – Gummy Mango 100mg | Binske

FLOWER - PERSONAL USE third – Blackjack | Debbie Perticara sixth – Eden's White Fire | Debbie Perticara

FLOWER - PRE ROLL first – Mixed Light “It's It” Pre-Roll | Talking Trees Farms

FLOWER - SUNGROWN first – Ridgeline Runtz | Ridgeline Farms third – White Runtz | Humboldt Redwood Healing fifth – Ice Cream Cake | Ridgeline Farms seventh – GMO Cookie | Green Light Farms ninth – Green Lantern | Ridgeline Farms tenth – Gelato 41 | Lost Coast Elixirs fourteenth – Candied Banana | DewPoint sixteenth – Love Humboldt's Mac 1 | Love Humboldt nineteenth – Roze Water Zkittles | Savage Farms twentieth – Do-Si-Dos Zkittles | Savage Farms

ICE WATER HASH first – THC BOMB 104u Water Hash - Papa’s Select | Humboldt Kine Farms second – Peanut Butter Breath 104u Water Hash - Papa’s Select | Humboldt Kine Farms third – Wedding Crasher 104u Water Hash - Papa’s Select | Humboldt Kine Farms

SOLVENTLESS ROSIN WINNERS fifth – Tar Hill Pink Lemonade Premium Live Rosin - Papa’s Select | Tar Hill Cannabis seventh – Runtz Rosin | Zenganic Inc. Kalya Extracts / Sky High Humboldt ninth – Passion | Suprize Suprize

TINCTURE third – Humboldt Harvest Tincture THC | Humboldt Harvest fifth – Living Tincture | Papa & Barkley

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Advertiser Index Insert Aloha Humboldt

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Inn of the Lost Coast

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Backbone Software

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Kathleen Bryson, Attorney

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Backbone Software

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Kiskanu Humboldt

2

Bear Extraction House

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Redwood Roots

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Briceland Forest Farms

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Lagniappe Family Farm

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Emerald Employment

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The Land Man

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Emerald Queen Farms

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The Mill Yard

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Eureka Oxygen

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North Coast Cannabis Compliance

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Fox Farm Soil and Fertilizer

29

Papa & Barkley

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Full Moon Farms

3

Peak Industries, Inc.

12

The Heart of Humboldt (THCA)

25

Plant Humboldt Cannabis

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Heart of the Emerald

48

Shelter Cove Tourism

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Hendrx Farm

11

Southern Humboldt HLA

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Honey Dew Valley Farms

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Sunrise Mountain Farms

25

Humboldt Alchemy Group

51, 53 Trinity Diesel

22

Humboldt Brand

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Villa Paradiso

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The Humboldt County Collective

6

Xotic Flavorz

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Humboldt Legends

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Humboldt Seed Company

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Humboldt Wholesale Arcata

4

Humboldt’s Dankest

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Humboldt’s Legacy Farms

Photograph courtesy of Humboldt Seed Company.

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Est. 2015 Cultivating consistently clean cannabis, sustainably in the hills of Southern Humboldt County since 2015. Our cannabis is sun grown, in native soil, amended with premium compost produced on site, with organic, and when possible locally sourced inputs. These practices result in Honeydew Valley Farms choice product quality. The beautiful Honeydew Valley is located in Humboldt County, California, land of the redwoods, the world’s tallest trees.

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Available: Light Dep and Outdoor, A-Bud, B-Bud, Trim and Biomass

MISSION STATEMENT

Honeydew Valley Farms, LLC is family owned and operated by experienced cultivators under guidance of a certified soil scientist. We focus on utilizing best business and environmentally sustainable practices.

Our goal is to create high quality cannabis products that meet the needs of the community.

HONEYDEW VALLEY FARMS, LLC (707) 225-0098 P.O. Box 171 Honeydew, CA 95545

@honeydewvalleyfarms

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PRODUCT DIRECTORY

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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

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BREEDING . PHENOTYPE DISCOVERY . NURSERY WWW.HENDRX.FARM 707.840.5667 @HENDRXFARM @HENDRXFARMERS CCL18-0001546

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