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		<title>Report: Unlicensed Cannabis Grows Use More Water Than Licensed Grows in California</title>
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<p>The University of California, Berkeley (UCB) recently published a scientific brief in February regarding illegal water use for cannabis plants.</p>
<p>Entitled “<a href="https://kymkemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CRC_Brief_WaterUse_2024.pdf">Water Use: Cannabis in Context</a>,” the brief was conducted by individuals at the <a href="https://kymkemp.com/2024/02/08/researchers-at-uc-berkeley-find-that-keeping-cannabis-farms-in-the-licensed-market-is-key-for-preventing-impacts-to-streams/">Berkeley Cannabis Research Center</a>, which is part of the College of Environmental Science Policy &amp; Management. The Cannabis Research Center has been reviewing cannabis water use since 2017, and the most recent brief is split into four sections posed with a question.</p>
<p>First, “How much water does cannabis use relative to stream flow?” explains that cannabis water use in regions along the Northern California coast and semi-inland areas (primarily Humboldt and Mendocino County) represents a “small fraction” of surface water supplies year-round, and especially during the months of July, August, and September. However, cannabis grows aren’t spread out evenly amongst these areas, with many farms gathered near one another. In those areas, “cannabis water demand represents &gt;10% of available supplies during the dry season.” Researchers also make an important note that the watershed samples they refer to include demand mainly from unlicensed farms.</p>
<p>The researcher’s second section addresses the comparison between water demand between unlicensed versus licensed farms. “Unlicensed cannabis accounts for significantly more cultivated area than licensed cannabis farming and therefore has a much larger water demand footprint,” <a href="https://kymkemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CRC_Brief_WaterUse_2024.pdf">researchers explained</a>. “Furthermore, because unlicensed cannabis farms often have little to no water storage on-site, water is extracted from watersheds on demand, which tends to peak in August.”</p>
<p>Ultimately, unlicensed farms consume much more than licensed farms throughout the year. “Water demand for unlicensed cultivation therefore exceeds that of licensed cultivation to an even greater extent in the driest time of year when stream flow is lowest,” <a href="https://kymkemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CRC_Brief_WaterUse_2024.pdf">the authors stated</a>, recommending that incentives be provided for licensed farmers to be able to obtain or retain their existing licenses while “increasing off-site stream storage” to use as irrigation during the summer months.</p>
<p>The third section explores how much residents in Humboldt and Mendocino Counties consume in comparison to the amount of water that licensed grows utilize. Researchers studied 91 watersheds and found that resident’s demand for water usage far exceeded that of licensed cultivators by 97%. “On average, licensed cannabis farm demands are one-tenth the amount of water as residential demand,” the brief states. “Water demands for other forms of agriculture in the region far exceed those of cannabis and residential use.”</p>
<p>Finally, the last section examined water used licensed cannabis grows and found that those cultivation sites only used 4% or less of streamflow in the month of August, some even without additional water storage. “If licensed cannabis farms had enough water storage capacity to accommodate at least half of their annual water demand, there would be no watersheds among those sampled exceeding 2% of their estimated streamflow availability,” the authors concluded. “If licensed cannabis farms had storage capacity equivalent to their annual water demand, licensed cultivation would not require more than 1% of available flow in any sampled watershed.”</p>
<p>The release of this brief is well-timed to educate voters as spring approaches, which is also when they will have the opportunity to choose, approve or reject the <a href="https://hightimes.com/news/ballot-initiative-could-crush-cannabis-cultivation-in-humboldt/">Humboldt Cannabis Reform Initiative</a> (HCRI) which will appear as Measure A on the upcoming ballot. If approved, it would severely hinder local growers by banning them from making any changes to their farms. A report analyzing the HCRI was prepared for Humboldt County Board of Supervisors by the Humboldt County Planning Department in <a href="https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/631973f14db5e2a6859bbd21/6463f4f3747575a0169d2e22_Humboldt%20County%20Planning%20Department%20Analysis.pdf">March 2023</a>, explaining the harms of such a measure. “HCRI has been written to effectively discourage existing permit holders from modifying their permits in any way,” the report stated. “This includes adding infrastructure intended for environmental protections or modification of activities or site configuration to adapt to the evolving industry. These restrictions affect the smallest of farms permitted in Humboldt County to the largest cultivation sites.” </p>
<p>More recently, former Board of Supervisors member Mark Lovelace, who has spent the past seven years advising other California counties and cities on cannabis regulations, wrote an op-ed for <a href="https://www.times-standard.com/2024/02/08/my-word-measure-a-would-make-small-scale-cannabis-farms-unviable-in-humboldt-county/"><em>Times Standard</em></a> urging voters to vote no on Measure A. “Based on my professional analysis, I believe that Measure A will deal a devastating blow to the small cannabis businesses it purports to want to help,” Lovelace wrote. “The measure will impose an unrealistically small limit on the size of any new cannabis farms and will deny even the smallest ‘craft’ farmers any opportunity to grow or adapt their operations within Humboldt County. With cannabis prices continuing to fall, small farmers will be assured of making less money every year until they are no longer viable.”</p>
<p>Lovelace described the measure as “<a href="https://www.times-standard.com/2024/02/08/my-word-measure-a-would-make-small-scale-cannabis-farms-unviable-in-humboldt-county/">grossly uninformed and demonstrates a deep lack of understanding of the cannabis industry and basic economics</a>.” Measure A cites any grow larger than 10,000 square feet (which he describes as slightly larger than the average suburban lot), is a “large grow.” Additionally, the average size of all licensed Californian cultivator lots are more than 27,000 square feet, 93 cultivators are larger than 100,000 square feet, and nine include more than one million square feet.</p>
<p>In addition to other important points of defense of local cannabis growers, Lovelace summarizes the effect that Measure A may have on small cultivators. “Measure A would put Humboldt County’s small cannabis farms at an extreme disadvantage against large growers elsewhere in the state, rendering them largely unviable in an increasingly competitive industry. I urge Humboldt County’s voters to vote NO on Measure A,” <a href="https://www.times-standard.com/2024/02/08/my-word-measure-a-would-make-small-scale-cannabis-farms-unviable-in-humboldt-county/">Lovelace concluded</a>.</p>
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<p>Dry farms are rare in California, but the results people like Chrystal Ortiz of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/high_water_farm/?hl=en">High Water Farm</a> are able to pull off without watering their cannabis plants all summer are pretty amazing. Sure it takes a Goldilocks type of microclimate in the middle of Humboldt County just off the Eel River—the same neighborhood that hosts all the state’s dry cannabis farmers—but what those farmers are able to do is pretty impressive. It is certainly a leap of faith to start. Ortiz described the trauma of her first season trying dry farming as she watched the plants wilt before they adjusted to their new life on the dry farm, but it worked out. These days she pumps a lot of the product coming out of High Water Farm in bulk. She estimated about 70% percent of her product goes to brands that will use the flower to fill their jars, and the rest goes to hash companies. Dry-farmed cannabis has crazy terpene profiles that make for great hash.</p>
<p>Ortiz also holds back enough product to make sure she has enough cannabis to run great half-ounce deals at her shop, Herb &amp; Market Humboldt in Arcata, which she runs when she isn’t splitting farm duties with her husband Noah Beck.</p>
<p>“We’ve had great weather so far,” Ortiz told <em>High Times </em>of the 2023 season. “We started super late because the field was wet pretty late. And so we didn’t get the plants in the ground until a week after [summer] solstice.”</p>
<p>Moisture retention in dry cannabis farming is critical, but for young plants too much moisture can still lead to a lot of issues. This year, Humboldt’s rainy winter led to the latest start at High Water Farm since they started dry farming in 2018.</p>
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<h2 id="how-dry-farming-works" class="wp-block-heading"><strong>How Dry Farming Works</strong></h2>
<p>The field, the quality of its soil, and the local microclimate all play a massive role in what is happening at High Water Farm.</p>
<p>Ortiz explained that dry farming is ideal in their area because the undisturbed redwood trees hold the water table, or the layer of water underneath the soil, in place.</p>
<p>“When you come in from the coast and you get to the very first Avenue of the Giants exit, you get just past the fog bank,” Ortiz said. “And then you’ve got old-growth redwoods that are like holding the water table. That’s really what I think is happening between the river and the old-growth redwoods on the Giants. They’re keeping water in the water table. So the fir isn’t drinking them all up like everywhere else where there’s been so much heavy logging, and we get that 20 to 30 degrees warmer than the coast. Yet, we’re still like 10 to 15 degrees cooler than Garberville.”</p>
<p>Every day the sun heats the soil, releasing stored up moisture from the night before and the morning fog. That moisture travels up through the roots and hydrates the plant, which keeps the soil ridiculously soft. </p>
<p>First, the soil is prepped in the winter. It will need to hold all the nutrients that the cannabis plants will require to get through the season since they won’t be getting watered. One of the things in Ortiz’s favor is that the property is on an old alfalfa farm. Alfalfa is popular as a cover crop to help improve soil quality for cannabis farmers that plant straight into the soil. Ortiz and Beck grow alfalfa in the winter and then till it into the soil in the spring to help the soil hold nitrogen. They also use goats to eat the cover crops, and their droppings get tilled back into the already awesome soil.</p>
<p>Why is the soil at High Water Farm so dope? Essentially the same thing happens on the Nile River in Egypt, where every now and then a big flood deposits a massive layer of silt along the banks, a lot of the silt that washed down rivers in Humboldt includes sawdust from logging operations and mills. The last big flood in 1964 left a 10- to 15-foot layer of silt along the Eel River’s shores where the farm sits.</p>
<p>Ortiz said while they don’t find many rocks when they prepare the field each spring, old branches from past floods seem to work their way back up through the soil. They’ve taken to building little shrines with redwood branches that they discover around the farm.</p>
<p>The silt, in addition to the alfalfa-eating goats, is the backbone of the farm’s plant nutrition profile. </p>
<p>“It’s just this kind of little Goldilocks zone where the river meanders through and it’s coming out just about sea level. We’re almost at sea level and so [the river is] coming out to the mouth pretty soon and it’s just swift and cold,” Ortiz said.</p>
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<h2 id="always-improving" class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Always Improving</strong></h2>
<p>Every year there is still room for improvement. This year features some new hardware from one of the neighbors, a transplanter tool, that made getting the plants in the ground a cinch.</p>
<p>“It was even crazier than usual where we have our plants and little foragers and we shook all the dirt off and had them bare root exposed,” Ortiz said. “We just pulled the transplanter behind and dropped the plants in the trowel, and they planted. We planted the whole 20,000 square feet in less than six hours.”</p>
<p>When planting they will mix a little a handful of <a href="https://terravesco.com/">TerraVesco</a> worm compost and some sort of good organic dry amendments. In the past they have also included Perfect Blend, <a href="https://drearth.com/">Dr. Earth</a>, or <a href="https://royalgoldcoco.com/crown-jewels-fertilizer/">Royal Gold</a>. Royal Gold has a new product called Crown Jewels that Ortiz used last year. After a little handful in the planting hole, and that’s it for the whole season. Ortiz estimates she only bought 10 or 12 small bags of amendments this year.</p>
<p>We asked what has changed the most about her mentality as she heads into her sixth season without any irrigation for her plants. She was quick to point to the deficiencies in the market that prevent her from going crazy with a bunch of different strains.</p>
<p>“The game has changed so much like trim, people need 200 pounds of one varietal,” Ortiz said. “We’ve really had to scale back on the excitement around a bunch of different flavors as weed smokers and realize we need to do what does really well in the dry farm.”</p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="1200" height="800" src="https://i0.wp.com/hightimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HighWaterFarm_LaOsaBiovortex_00008.jpeg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1" alt="" class="wp-image-301395" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/hightimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HighWaterFarm_LaOsaBiovortex_00008.jpeg?resize=1440%2C960&amp;ssl=1 1440w, https://i0.wp.com/hightimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HighWaterFarm_LaOsaBiovortex_00008.jpeg?resize=360%2C240&amp;ssl=1 360w, https://i0.wp.com/hightimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HighWaterFarm_LaOsaBiovortex_00008.jpeg?resize=100%2C67&amp;ssl=1 100w, https://i0.wp.com/hightimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HighWaterFarm_LaOsaBiovortex_00008.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/hightimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HighWaterFarm_LaOsaBiovortex_00008.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/hightimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HighWaterFarm_LaOsaBiovortex_00008.jpeg?resize=380%2C253&amp;ssl=1 380w, https://i0.wp.com/hightimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HighWaterFarm_LaOsaBiovortex_00008.jpeg?resize=800%2C533&amp;ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/hightimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HighWaterFarm_LaOsaBiovortex_00008.jpeg?resize=1160%2C773&amp;ssl=1 1160w, https://i0.wp.com/hightimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HighWaterFarm_LaOsaBiovortex_00008.jpeg?resize=80%2C53&amp;ssl=1 80w, https://i0.wp.com/hightimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HighWaterFarm_LaOsaBiovortex_00008.jpeg?resize=72%2C48&amp;ssl=1 72w, https://i0.wp.com/hightimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HighWaterFarm_LaOsaBiovortex_00008.jpeg?resize=760%2C507&amp;ssl=1 760w, https://i0.wp.com/hightimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HighWaterFarm_LaOsaBiovortex_00008.jpeg?resize=1600%2C1066&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https://i0.wp.com/hightimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HighWaterFarm_LaOsaBiovortex_00008.jpeg?resize=200%2C133&amp;ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/hightimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HighWaterFarm_LaOsaBiovortex_00008.jpeg?resize=720%2C480&amp;ssl=1 720w, https://i0.wp.com/hightimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HighWaterFarm_LaOsaBiovortex_00008.jpeg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" data-recalc-dims="1"><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Checking out cannabis on the High Water Farm homestead.</figcaption></figure>
<h2 id="a-rare-breed" class="wp-block-heading"><strong>A Rare Breed</strong></h2>
<p>Ortiz estimates there are about six permitted dry cannabis farms in the entire state, and they are all located on either side of the river in her neighborhood. Some of her dry-farming compatriots nearby include <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sensiboldt/">Sensiboldt</a> as well as longtime farmers Rosie Reynolds and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/canndo_attitude/">Beth Dunlap</a>. Better known as Farmer Beth, Dunlap has been cultivating on her dad’s old farm for 38 years, it’s where she grew up.</p>
<p>These three farms—High Water Farm, Sensiboldt Organics, and Cann-Do Attitude—collaborate on the Dry Farm Cannabis brand together.</p>
<p>“And we put a lot of stuff out under Dry Farm Cannabis, we put pre-rolls out, we put jarred weed out, we put bulk weed out,” Ortiz said. “And so that’s kind of an exciting collab because then between the three of us we can vend directly to consumers at different events and stuff.”</p>
<p>Ortiz said part of the reason it’s exciting is because it’s just more fun and easier to not have to be out there tooting your own horn. You can make a space and share it and each rep for each other.</p>
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<h2 id="holding-space-for-small-farms-saving-humboldt" class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Holding Space for Small Farms &amp; Saving Humboldt</strong></h2>
<p>After spending many years deep in the heart of Humboldt County politics as legal cannabis emerged, Ortiz now considers her main activism as the dispensary, <a href="https://herbandmarkethumboldt.com/">Herb &amp; Market Humboldt</a>, where she holds space for those small farms trying to hold on.</p>
<p>“We don’t have a ton of customers. We’re not super busy. But you know, there’s also like 100 dispensaries in Humboldt County and it’s like selling sand at the beach,” Ortiz said. “But it is a space where farmers can learn. They can directly interact with consumers and see why their packaging doesn’t work. Why their labeling doesn’t work.”</p>
<p>Ortiz’s dispensary allows farmers to have an experience that’s really hard for them to get outside of the region in the protected environment Ortiz offers and then go do events in other places down south where the direct-to-consumer cash is.</p>
<p>“So they get to try it here and I see them. I see it work,” Ortiz emphasized.</p>
<p>While Ortiz has enjoyed helping out local cultivators, she expects things to ramp up politically over the coming months as Humboldt County looks like it will have a culture-shifting ballot initiative that could damn the county’s cannabis industry forever.</p>
<p>Humboldt’s cannabis farmers allege that the ballot initiative, currently labeled the <a href="https://www.nohcri.com/">Humboldt Cannabis Reform Initiative</a> (HCRI), was written by NIMBYs in Kneeland, California that are anti-cannabis and are way behind the times in the county.</p>
<p>“They went into the community and they lied to the community to get enough signatures,” Ortiz alleged. “It was pro-cannabis for farms 10,000 square feet or below only and blah, blah, blah, and turns out that they got enough signatures to get it off the ballot through nefarious ways. And now [the ballot initiative] is a really poorly written, really devastating proposition that threatens every single legal farm in Humboldt County.”</p>
<p>One of the scariest things about the initiative is it would become statutory law that would require another election to change. Some of the bad ideas include banning additional structures on cannabis farms, so cultivators wouldn’t be able to make any changes such as installing water tanks or solar panels. Arguably the most devastating part of all would be that the initiative would only allow for one cultivation permit per person per parcel, affecting many people who have spent years building out onsite distribution or manufacturing. The initiative would ruin them and the county’s cannabis industry.</p>
<p>The HCRI ballot initiative is slated to appear on the March 2024 ballot. Ortiz went as far as to say that it will be the end of Humboldt County’s licensed cannabis industry if it passes. There are so few licensed farmers right now as so many have already gone out of business. Ortiz thinks it’s going to be hard to see how much compassion we have from the cannabis community about keeping farms alive. She plans to talk to other business owners and note that if they support HCRI there won’t be any cannabis dollars left to spend at their establishments, period.</p>
<p><em>This article was originally published in the <a href="https://archive.hightimes.com/issue/20231101">November 2023 issue</a> of High Times Magazine.</em></p>
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<p>“I’ve always been somebody who was a minority among minorities, being marginalized and also being attracted to marginalized subcultures. Rock ‘n’ roll is where I found my family, and in cannabis, I found another family.” Inspired by the “female expression of the most powerful plant on Earth,” her words, Tina Gordon of <a href="https://www.moonmadefarms.com/">Moon Made Farms</a> carved out a cannabis brand, and a name for herself, in Humboldt County, California. But it hasn’t always been this way.</p>
<p>“I was living in San Francisco for most of my adult life, and during that time, I was living a very underground lifestyle with art, music and playing in bands, releasing records, van touring, that kind of thing, for about 20 years,” Gordon said. “I was in a bunch of different punk and metal bands; I did a mobile soundstage, that kind of thing. And I used to do art shows, photography, video. I really dedicated myself to having a full, creative life, to live lean, and to live life to the fullest.”</p>
<p>However, after two decades living that lifestyle, things began to transition. After going through a band break-up and a career shift, she was looking for where to go next. Suddenly, Gordon found herself spending more and more time in <a href="https://hightimes.com/news/petition-seeks-help-protecting-small-cannabis-farmers-in-the-emerald-triangle/">Humboldt County</a> instead of the Bay Area, first filming a documentary, then even dating someone in the area and realizing she wanted to spend all of her time there. She also fell in love with growing the cannabis plant, something she never would have tried in her previous life.</p>
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<p>“Moon Made Farms acknowledges the feminine in this plant, the moon being a symbol of femininity. The moon has a regular schedule with subtle changes every, single night. So, sun-grown isn’t just about the sun; it’s about the moon and the night cycle as well.”</p>
<p>“I didn’t even have houseplants in San Francisco,” she admitted. “I was really urban. And then when I went through my first season in Humboldt, and I saw this plant grow from seed to full expression, I was completely captivated, and it shifted my awareness to the natural world and how incredible it is. The sensory experience of growing this plant changed my life.”</p>
<p>As she began listening to the earth and the plants she was growing, she started to realize how sacred the relationship between cannabis and grower truly is. Seeing how cannabis thrives when given rain-caught water, fresh air, full sunlight and all the other natural elements that can be granted through outdoor growing in the Emerald Triangle, Gordon knew she had a new obsession. Now, instead of making music and art, she’s all about growing the juiciest, most gorgeous buds. But she never left the social justice element behind.</p>
<p>Gordon started learning permaculture regenerative techniques and working them into her growing to develop more sustainable practices around producing cannabis. As an advocate for outdoor growing, she is always trying to learn more. And as a social justice advocate, she always tries to pull in queer folks, women and other marginalized people to work on her farm.</p>
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<p>“I’ve always been somebody who was a minority among minorities, being marginalized and also being attracted to marginalized subcultures,” Gordon said. “Rock ‘n’ roll is where I found my family, and in cannabis, I found another family. And when something changes your life as much as cannabis, there is a responsibility to pay it forward, a responsibility to do activism work and social justice work and to help educate people about the true value of this plant.</p>
<p>Through education, she wants to make sure that the focus is on sun-grown and natural cannabis, a personal passion.</p>
<p>“Misconceptions about outdoor-grown flower are based on the industry standard,” she said.</p>
<p>“That started because of prohibition, when all the outdoor farmers were forced inside, so indoor farming became the industry standard. Now that we’re emerging out of prohibition, it just feels like the plant should go back outside. Now, during that time, some incredible advancements have happened. A lot has happened in the way of genetics and techniques around this plant, but I would love to see this plant go back outside, and for there to be extensive research done on the properties and potential of what this plant has to offer.</p>
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<p>Now, Moon Made Farms is known on the market for producing quality, sungrown, sustainable cannabis that stands out from the rest, but it wouldn’t have been possible without the hard work and ethos that Gordon puts into her work. She’s also thrilled that she gets to revisit her musician days and sell merch for her farm, and she loves studying the growth cycle of the plant. As for the moon, to her, it’s a celebration of the feminine within the cannabis plant, the dark within the light.</p>
<p>“Moon Made Farms acknowledges the feminine in this plant, the moon being a symbol of femininity. The moon has a regular schedule with subtle changes every, single night. So, sun-grown isn’t just about the sun; it’s about the moon and the night cycle as well. This is a photosensitive plant. It’s sensitive to light. And that quality of light will affect the plant in every way, so one of the most important things about the plant being grown outside is that exposure to the night sky. And so, Moon Made Farms is acknowledging lunar farming techniques, an ancient way of cultivating all plants, as well as the symbol of the feminine that the moon represents.”</p>
<p>Read this story originally published in <em>High Times </em>July 2021 Issue in our <a href="https://archive.hightimes.com/article/2021/7/1/moon-made-farms">archive</a>.</p>
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<p>The cannabis industry’s famed <a href="https://hightimes.com/news/california-news/growers-in-the-emerald-triangle-are-facing-a-potential-extinction-event/">Emerald Triangle</a> is made up of the lush growing regions in Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties of Northern California—but high taxes and large corporations are threatening this community of multi-generational farmers who want to grow high quality weed as a passion, not just for profit. </p>
<p>One local Humboldt advocate and farm owner, Rose Moberly, is bringing awareness to the plight of the Emerald Triangle by circulating a <a href="https://www.change.org/p/sign-our-petition-to-tell-the-governor-to-eliminate-the-excessive-cultivation-tax-tax-reform-call-to-action-california-department-of-cannabis-control-gov-newsroom">petition to gain support</a>.</p>
<p>Moberly has an impressive and extensive history working in the cannabis history. Starting from her roots interning for the Colorado Senate as an environmental lobbyist to rising in the ranks of a trimming job, grow facilities and even a track-and-trace METRC auditor, she’s explored many facets of the cannabis industry. Things really took off two years ago when she was invited to travel to California to educate small farmers about the track-and-trace system. </p>
<p>Ultimately, this path led her not only to find love, but also to her current role as co-operator of a second-generation farm called Huckleberry Hill Farms. “Long story short, I wound up falling in love with a certain legacy farmer [John Casali], who challenges me to be a better woman everyday, and I moved out [to Humboldt] over two years ago.”</p>
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<p>Moberly describes <a href="https://www.instagram.com/huckleberryhillfarms/?hl=en">Huckleberry Hill Farms</a> “as mom-and-pop as it can get!” and her passion for cannabis advocacy and growing knows no bounds. However, small farmers in the Emerald Triangle are facing a dire situation. The tight-knit region of farmers are being challenged by corporations, who jumped onto the cannabis bandwagon once it hit mainstream popularity, without little effort in advocacy or legalization assistance. </p>
<p>“I think it’s important for people to realize where a multi-billion-dollar industry is being created from, and what they had to go through with the War on Drugs in order to legalize this amazing powerful plant,” Moberly told <em>High Times</em>.</p>
<p>More importantly, the shockingly high cultivation taxes that are required to grow in California makes operation difficult for all small farmers, not just those who operate within the Emerald Triangle region. If the current trajectory for taxes doesn’t change, it could be game over for small farmers everywhere. “All farmers no matter where they are in the state of California are suffering from over taxation and over supply,” she explained. “Together we need to communicate with regulators that if they are going to continue to permit farms without federal legalization, they will continue to drive the price down. The Emphasis on the Emerald Triangle has to do with protecting a culture that is not found anywhere else in the entire world, not just California.”</p>
<p>Moberly is confident that some of the nation’s best and most unique cannabis strains are bred in the Emerald Triangle, and if those farmers are forced to shut down due to exorbitant tax requirements, those strains could also disappear forever. “Furthermore, the Emerald Triangle is like the Amazon jungle of genetics. Some of the Legacy Growers here, I’m sure, hold a unique strain of cannabis that might even have the cure for cancer, or Autism, epilepsy, etc,” she said. “If those Farms aren’t able to make it in today’s climate some of those strains and cultivars might possibly be lost forever.”</p>
<p>Moberly shared that a recent local survey showed that 50 to 60 percent of cannabis farms won’t survive through 2022 if some kind of emergency regulations are put in place. Which is why she decided to take action and start the petition “<a href="https://www.change.org/p/sign-our-petition-to-tell-the-governor-to-eliminate-the-excessive-cultivation-tax-tax-reform-call-to-action-california-department-of-cannabis-control-gov-newsroom">Save the Emerald Triangle Legacy Cannabis Farmers</a>.”</p>
<p>“As a result, farmers who sold flower products last year at $1,400 a pound are now forced to sell their products at $300 per lb to pay their bills,” she wrote on the petition webpage. “Due to the state’s fixed dollar tax, those farmers will be asked to pay a 53 percent cultivation tax of $161.28; while the remaining leaf product which some farmers had to offload as low as $15 per pound will be charged $48 per pound for state taxes. At that price, they’re being subjected to a 320 percent tax rate!”</p>
<p>With enough signatures, she will send a letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom, as well as state legislature, to plead the case on behalf of California farmers everywhere. In the meantime, you can help support the cause by visiting the petition <a href="https://www.change.org/p/sign-our-petition-to-tell-the-governor-to-eliminate-the-excessive-cultivation-tax-tax-reform-call-to-action-california-department-of-cannabis-control-gov-newsroom">here</a>.</p>
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<p>Humboldt County is taking a bold step and offering support to cannabis growers. </p>
<p>Bedeviled by the ever-falling price of cannabis, growers in Humboldt County, <a href="https://hightimes.com/news/california-supreme-court-nixes-pot-for-prisoners/">California</a> have been offered a lifeline by local officials.</p>
<p>On Monday, the county opened up the application period for “Project Trellis,” a support program to provide a boost to local cannabis growers. The program draws upon the <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1294">California Cannabis Equity Act,</a> which was signed in to law in 2018 and sought to redress the harmful legacy of pot prohibition by “[ensuring] that persons most harmed by cannabis criminalization and poverty be offered assistance to enter the multibillion dollar cannabis industry as entrepreneurs or as employees with high-quality, well-paying jobs.”</p>
<p>This year, those eligible to participate in Project Trellis can <a href="https://www.times-standard.com/2021/08/16/10k-grants-available-to-cannabis-community-amid-struggle/">reportedly</a> apply for up to $10,000 “per service,” with more than $2 million overall in available grants through the program.</p>
<p>The deadline to submit applications is September 17. </p>
<p>That grant money is arriving at a critical time for Humboldt County farmers. </p>
<h3 id="humboldt-county-gets-rescued">Humboldt County Gets Rescued </h3>
<p>Natalynne DeLapp, the executive director of the Humboldt County Growers Alliance, <a href="https://www.times-standard.com/2021/08/16/10k-grants-available-to-cannabis-community-amid-struggle/">told the <em>Times-Standard</em> newspaper </a>that the county’s ““independent cannabis farmers are in crisis.”</p>
<p>“It is great that the county developed Project Trellis…and (has) secured nearly $5 million in funding from the state to support communities most impacted by the War on Drugs in entering the regulated cannabis market, but now it is time to get serious,” she told the newspaper.  </p>
<p>“Perhaps 200 of Humboldt County’s 900-plus cultivation operators, who can prove the War on Drugs has negatively impacted them, could receive up to $10,000 in fee waivers for professional services like fee waivers, technical assistance or installing solar or water storage systems. The wholesale price of cannabis has dropped below the cost of production,” DeLapp added. </p>
<p>She continued, “Unless we want an extinction event, which means losing our legacy farmers, it is imperative for the county to maximize funding allocations directly into the hands of our farmers.”</p>
<p>In the formation of Project Trellis, officials in Humboldt County said they “identified those most affected by the criminalization of cannabis in Humboldt County” through interviews and data.</p>
<p>“It was identified that certain populations and neighborhoods, particularly small growers, and those affected by past policies, while participating in the cannabis industry, were negatively impacted,” the program’s website says. “The findings of the Cannabis Equity Assessment were then used to create the Program’s equity eligibility requirements, which are outlined in the Local Equity Program Manual. Additionally the Local Equity Program Manual outlines the services available to those who meet the eligibility requirements. The Program implements the State of California and County of Humboldt’s legislative goals to further equity among those impacted by the criminalization of cannabis.”</p>
<p>The program has three levels of support: a Cannabis Business Micro-grant Program, a Local Equity Program, and a Marketing and Promotion Program. </p>
<p>The Micro-grant Program “provides cannabis businesses an opportunity to apply for funding to cover business related expenditures,” <a href="https://www.gohumco.com/195/Project-Trellis">according to the county</a>, while the Local Equity Program “provides resources to local communities and individuals who have been impacted by the War on Drugs.”</p>
<p>The Marketing Program is “designed to promote and maintain Humboldt grown cannabis as a national and industry brand.”</p>
<p>Passed two years after California voters legalized recreational marijuana, the California Cannabis Equity Act was seen as a way to bring illicit cultivators and sellers out of the shadows and into the regulated market.</p>
<p>Democratic state Senator Steven Bradford <a href="https://lasentinel.net/governor-brown-signs-california-cannabis-equity-act-of-2018.html">said at the time</a> that the bill “recognizes the failed efforts of the War on Drugs, but more importantly, it highlights the disproportionate devastation cannabis criminalization has had on communities and helps address the harms by reducing barriers to licensure and increasing opportunities for employment.”</p>
<p>Humboldt County has, for decades, been a cradle of marijuana production in the United States. Along with Mendocino and Trinity counties, it forms the “Emerald Triangle,” long considered the country’s largest cannabis producing region.</p>
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