Willow Creek Cannabis Market in Arcata at Herb & Market Humboldt this Saturday
Press release from the Willow Creek Cannabis Alliance:
The Willow Creek Cannabis Alliance is happy to announce its first Willow Creek Farmers Market in collaboration with Herb & Market Humboldt on Saturday, May 7 from 1pm to 5pm at 427 H Street in Arcata at the corner of Samoa and H St.
Members of the Willow Creek Cannabis Alliance are small producers who practice their craft with respect for the plants, the community, and their region. Many people are curious about what’s available to consume, how it’s been grown, and ultimately where their money is going. The Willow Creek Farmers Market at Herb & Market offers a chance to create a connection between producer and consumer, much like the Arcata Farmers Market. This is a chance to develop relationships that go beyond the transactional and to explore the variety of products crafted by local family farms from a particular region.
Just as a wine region has unique characteristics, such as the limestone-heavy soil of Burgundy and its micro climates, the Willow Creek region is unique for its Mediterranean climate of warm days followed by much cooler nights. “This region is nested in the rugged mountains and dense forests of the Six Rivers National Forest an hour east of the Redwood National Forest,” explains Linsey Jones, owner-operator of Aloha Humboldt and a WCCA member. “The mountain sun, Trinity River and marine influence create unique micro climates that produce distinctive flavors that influence both cannabis and wine character. When someone smokes cannabis grown in the Willow Creek region or drinks wine from grapes grown in Willow Creek, they taste the place, the uniqueness of Willow Creek’s craft cannabis and wine.”
Farmers have been living and growing around Willow Creek for many decades. They know the region intimately. Meeting them at markets like the Willow Creek Farmers’ Market on Saturday at Herb & Market fosters a healthy place-based connection.
For Judi Nelson, owner-operator of Sol Spirit Farms and member of WCCA, “the farmers in Willow Creek are working together to increase awareness of place-based craft cannabis, starting here in our own backyard. We want to steer the statewide conversation towards people knowing where their cannabis comes from and how that affects their experience.”
They will share their craft product and their knowledge at tables set outside the Herb & Market dispensary at 427 H Street right after the Arcata Farmers Market, from 1pm to 5pm on Saturday. Product is available for purchase inside the store.
Herb & Market owner Chrystal Ortiz is excited to realize her vision of an experiential marketplace by having direct market access from farmers to consumers, utilizing farmers market stalls, and crafts. “It’s the intention of my space to showcase region-specific cannabis,” she explains.
The Willow Creek Cannabis Alliance is Humboldt County’s largest micro-regional producer alliance. The mission of the WCCA is to support their community and enhance awareness of the exceptional cannabis products crafted in the Willow Creek region and surrounding mountain communities. For more information, please visit willowcreekcanna.com.
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Growers suck
Y’all just capitalists and nothing more
Hater suck more.
And you live in America.
I guess you are more the Chinese communist style economy.
Maybe we can get you a ticket over there one way
Lock up Shang Hai style.
What do you do that isn’t about making money…? Enlighten us please or do you just have a grievance against growers in general? Look these are just farmers like any farmer in the US, trying to make a living… and coming out to market their stuff is just like any business going to a fair or trade show.. what is upsetting you?
Hard to live with no paper.
This is the way. Direct farm to consumer sales. Wishing the farmers success in their endeavors.
Yes!
yep… the direct to stoner market vertical integration needed BADLY…. they keep shitting on the game otherwise.
These are the people doing it right. Good job Willow Creek.
nothing like willow creek herb grown in a green house
Always had issues with PM and rot with full terms in WC. Deps kicked ass, but that’s not considered acceptable for appellations.
Appellations are rightly reserved for sun grown, in ground, plants. Deps sure do produce high quality flower, but it’s the influence of the fall weather as well as the genetics that actually work in a given climate that give different regions their unique flavor
Yes, I’m aware of the appellation rules. I think if you even cover them with plastic at all, say in Hayfork over night during an fall freeze it’s no longer appellation quality. Super tough standard to meet in my area.
I think appellations only make sense if the standard is fairly difficult to meet. From the talks I’ve heard about it supporting the survival of unique local genetics was a big motivation for the appellation proponents.
I know there’s some old hayfork genetics that can handle the cold. One of the craziest things I’ve seen was out on hayfork summit, going out around this time of year to help wake up the garden and the neighbor had 5 ft tall monsters already in the ground. My friends said he would plant the seeds direct in the fall after harvest and the seeds would often germinate through snow.
Tried the direct sow and yes they grew big, but often had hermi problems or revegged after a too early of a start. I still prefer to crack them inside early, but that required lights outside to prevent early flowering. Definitely not appellation friendly.
As for HF summit, it actually does better than down in the valley, especially the tributary watersheds (philpot, Duncan, rusch, barker, big creeks) where the cold air settles at night. The summit stays warmer over all. In the old days the flat spots down low would freeze way faster in the spring and fall than up on the hillsides.
Why does it have to be difficult to grow in an appellation zone? Champagne isn’t hard to grow in that particular region. Tequila isn’t hard to grow in that part of Jalisco, you can grow agave outside of that area, it’s just not that area. Maybe Willow Creek is hard to grow in, but it’s there. That’s why you couldn’t call Lodi weed Willow Creek weed.
Champagne requires more than just being grown in that region. There are viticultural practices that are specified as well as methods of wine making that are stipulated and both are more work than is strictly necessary to produce grapes or wine. The same is true of tequila.
Willow creek is not difficult to grow in, but allowing any weed grown in a certain geographical area to carry the appellation makes the appellation worthless. If there is terroir to be found in cannabis from a certain region it will certainly be from the native soil, the harvest season weather, and the particular strains that have been developed to thrive in the area. Being in the willow creek area doesn’t magically change your gelato clone grown in purchased soil with Athena nutrients into something special.
New York indoor for 900 in Florida is being mass produced and sold.
It’s da fire. As good as my 38% out door Mac one.
Growing Coastal!!!!
Yep. There’s a glut of cheap commercial weed all over the country
But will fetus ( twerp mansion ) and NJ Bryan be there discussing their vertically integrated business strategy and their lawsuit ? The green rush 2.0 continues.
Oh Jesus, is that douchebag from Jersey suing someone?? Or is someone suing him? Please tell me more!
Don’t forget…#sameteam! LOL
A swing…. And a miss for Jorge the big name dropper. Sorry you didn’t get invited.
Good luck to the people from WC trying to make it in a tough climate.
No such thing as Redwood National Forest. There is a Redwood National Park, though..
Great initiative, connect the farmers to their clients, and kuddos to Herb and Market for organizing this, I am getting more and more stoked about that dispensary..