Marijuana Farmers Slide off the Mantle of Secrecy: A Grower’s Guild is Born

Placards invite like-minded individuals to sit together at Tuesday night’s meeting known as What’s After Pot. Last night, the Redway Mateel  Center in the southern heart of Humboldt County held a precariously balanced collection of  about 200 people–each of them worried in their own way about how marijuana legalization would change their area. Gathered around long tables with placards defining

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Grocery Shopping Humboldt–Choose Carefully–The Dynamics have Changed Since Last Year

Last year, I priced groceries at the SoHum, Fortuna, and Eureka Safeway and Ray’s stores. And found little difference between the prices within each chain and only minimal differences between the Safeway and the Ray’s stores.  Then, I went to Winco and took the exact same list of groceries (right down to 8.9 oz box of Cheerios) and priced the

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SFGate (The Chronicle Online) Perks Up at the Mention of Post Pot Economy

Tuesday night’s meeting at the Mateel Community Center is drawing attention outside of Southern Humboldt.  This morning’s Times Standard had a nice article  by Donna Tam about the local forum concerning the economic repercussions of marijuana legalization.  KMUD talk show host, Anna “Banana” Hamilton  is working to form a coalition of local business people, growers, county officials, etc. to meet

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Wild, Wild Humboldt–A Currant Look

Wild currants are blooming beside Highway 101 right now.  They start in late February and explode by April.  The vivid pink flowers and dark rounded green leaves are simply spectacular.  They are my favorite flowering bush.  Look for them with their heads in the sun and their roots in well drained creek beds. The sun and rain yesterday merged on

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SoHumBorn Sunday: ToothFairy

In December 2008, a Southern Humboldt blogger began posting fictional tales of the marijuana culture. Some people were appalled. Most were enthralled. For three months her stories gripped the online community and then, abruptly, she was gone. Even though SoHumBorn pulled her blog, for months her stories were available in the cached version but eventually they, too, were swallowed into

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Love That KHSU

Several times over the years , someone has heard my name on the KHSU pledge drive.  “Hey,” they ask, “What are you doing that for?  People don’t have to pay.”  And you don’t.  No one makes you dish out any money.  You can just turn on the news to excellent national coverage  and listen without cost. But nothing is really

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Bravo! Humboldt County Tourism Site is Promoting Humboldt's Marijuana Premiership to the Cannatourist

Because marijuana is still illegal in most aspects, using Humboldt’s premier status in the field to advertise to the cannatourist is difficult to say the least.  But it isn’t impossible. Humboldtcounty.com, an unofficial tourist information site for our area, has a discreet example of how to appeal to the marijuana tourist as well as to the ecotourism movement as a

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