HCGA highlights women in cannabis

Humboldt County’s cannabis farmers have paved the way for environmentally and ethically produced cannabis in California and beyond.

In an effort to highlight the farmers — especially women — who have built and continue to uphold our world-renowned legacy, the Humboldt County Grower’s Alliance has teamed up with GW Smoke Break TV to produce “Legends of the Fall,” a promotional video series to launch Friday, Sept. 10 on social media.

“We’re working with Daniel Montero from GW Smoke Break TV for an interview series on the local cannabis industry,” said HCGA executive director Natalynne Delapp. “The idea was just to bring

together all of these women in cannabis to talk about their role in the industry as well as their values, hopes and dreams, to share it out with the world and put more of a face to the industry beyond what is often presented.”

The first installment of “Legends of the Fall” peers into the lives of nine local farmers.

Alicia Renata, owner and operator of Blue

Rock Gardens, is a second-generation farmer following in her mother’s footsteps to produce organic cannabis.

“Since I’ve been here, the organic movement, the save the trees, save the creeks, preserve land for the people — it’s all part of the same thing and when you bring that to what you do bring it to everything you do,” Renata said. “… The things that people smoke around the world, in Europe and in Amsterdam, all have direct connections here.”

Tina Gordon, the owner of Moon Made Farm, moved to Southern Humboldt in 2007 to pursue long-held aspirations of producing sustainably grown therapeutic cannabis and food-based medicine. She acknowledges “the female expression of the plant” but cultivating in alignment with the lunar calendar and by using regenerative cultivation methods.

“There’s personality to the land … it’s those expressions that give us something very special and very unique,” Gordon said.