Learn how to identify and buy authentic heritage cannabis with this three-part series listing the farms of the famed Emerald Triangle. Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity Counties comprise the US’ number one cannabis production region, but the Triangle is roiling as it adapts to California legalization. To better compete in the free market, California farms have exclusive rights to market their county of origin — like “Humboldt” — and they’re listed with the state for the first time. Check it out.
Heritage for Sale
More and more consumers want to vote with their dollars for cannabis grown in America’s marijuana heartlands. Now, that’s easier than ever before.
- Major brands like Loudpack and Flow Kana are marketing heritage farms
- Three counties participate in a pilot program called CalOrigin, that uses tax stamps to verify heritage crops
- The California Department of Agriculture is listing farms by county (see below). Falsely advertising Humboldt roots is now illegal.
Running low on flower?Heritage farmers are facing steep price declines and massive new costs as a reward for inventing modern cannabis in the Triangle. Comprised of three main counties, Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity, the triangle has produced classics like OG Kush, Granddaddy Purple, and Trainwreck since the ‘80s.
Counterfeit cannabis brands have long-undercut heritage farms, though. Just like counterfeit Gucci and Prada, counterfeit “Humboldt” is a global, multi-billion dollar business.Under California legalization Proposition 64, which passed in 2016, all commercial cannabis growers must be licensed and follow rules including not faking your county of origin. Only Humboldt County growers can use “Humboldt” in their names and packaging. Ditto for Mendocino, Trinity, and elsewhere.
To support the heartland of cannabis production, look for these farms on dispensary menus. This list comes from the California Department of Food Agriculture’s database of registered cannabis cultivators by county, including: Humboldt, Mendocino, Trinity and Lake. We’ll update our heritage county farms list each quarter. *
(*Not all these growers can be found on shelves yet. They have to pass stringent Phase 2 pesticide and pathogen testing screening, among other hurdles.)
Authentic Cannabis Farms of Humboldt County
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Registered Humboldt County Cannabis Growers:
- 1L GARDEN SUPPLY
- 30 DEEP
- 4Hands Farm
- 7 Leaf Clover
- 8 Mile Family Farms
- Enterprises
- ABC Farms
- Adobe People
- Alderpoint Road Farms
- Alpenglow Farms
- ANCIENT TRUTH
- Azure Terra
- Bear Buttes Buds
- Big Buck Crossing
- Big Rock Farms
- Blue Ridge Farms
- Bosworth Creek Botanicals
- Bubbas Bud Farm
- Cache Farms
- Cali Love Farm
- CaliGardens
- Calipso Organics
- Calisun Business Support Services
- CannaDream
- Canyon Farms
- Carlotta Gardens
- Casahumboldt
- Castle Ridge
- Catalyst Unlimited
- Catch A Cloud Farms
- Clear Creek Farms
- Clear Water Farms
- Cloud Hands Organic Farm
- Cougar Ranch Family Farms
- Coyote Ridge Farm
- Crossland Management
- Cuddeback Farm
- Cuddeback Farm
- CW Ranch
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- DCEden
- Dennis M & Karen L Silva
- Down River Family Farms
- Dry Creek Farms
- DSCD Holdings Group
- East Mill Creek Farms
- ECD
- Ecoyard
- Eden Farms Cooperative
- Eel River Dry Farms
- Eel River Family Farm
- Elk Ridge Holistic
- Emerald Dragonfly Farms
- Emerald Family Farms
- Emerald Queen Farms
- Empress Farms
- Family Tree Medicinals
- Fire Stream
- Flore Farms
- Forbidden Fruit Farms
- Forever Honeydew Farms
- Fresh Off the Hill
- Freshwater Farmacy
- Full Cup Farmstead
- Full Moon Farms
- Full Sun Farms
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- Ghost Ship Investments
- Goat Rock Ranch
- Golden Gardens
- Grass Valley Patient Resource Group
- Gravel Spur Farm
- Green Sanctuary
- Hanging Gardens orporated
- Happy Dreams Farm.
- Happy Heads Ranch
- HARRIS RESOURCES
- Hidden Prairie Farms
- Higher Ground Agriculture
- Homegrown Farms.
- Honeydew Creek Farms
- Hope Springs Farm
- Horse Mountain Farm.
- Huckleberry Farms DBA
- Huckleberry Hill Farms
- Huckleberry Lane
- Humboldt 36 Farms
- Humboldt Cheeba Works
- Humboldt County Indoors
- humboldt cultivators
- Humboldt Cure
- Humboldt Cure
- Humboldt Edge Farm
- Humboldt Exotics
- Humboldt Harvest Moon
- Humboldt Headless Chicken Ranch
- Humboldt Healing Collective
- Humboldt Heirlooms
- Humboldt Hills Natural Farms
- Humboldt Homegrown Cannabis
- Humboldt Homegrown Farms
- Humboldt Honey Flower
- Humboldt Redwood Healing
- Humboldt Spirit
- Humboldt Sungrown Collective
- HumboldtJohn
- Humcann
- HUMFDC Investment
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- Ice Box Flat Farms
- Indra Valley Strategic Marketing Group
- Innovation West DBA Panther Gap Farms
- Kamino
- Kan Agribiz.
- Kaya Mountain Farms
- Kimo
- King Range Farms
- Kings View Farms
- Lineage Farm
- Linnaeus Farms
- Lost Coast Elixirs
- Lost Creek Farms,
- Love Humboldt
- Lucy Gulch
- Luna Lumen Farms
- Mas Mota
- Matolle Acres
- Mattole Farms.
- Mattole Valley Organics
- Mazari Farms
- Medicine Wheel Farm
- Mike and Renee Rice
- MMF Management
- Mountains of the Moon
- Mule Creek Ranch
- Native Humboldt Farms
- Navaya
- NCR VII
- Old Goat Farms
- Organic Humboldt.
- Organnabliss Farms
- Pacific Cannabis Growers
- Panther Gap Organic Ranch
- Paradise 36
- Paradise Ridge Ranch
- Peach Tree Farms
- Pitt Varbano
- PJC Wellness
- Power Flower Farm
- Quantum Leasing
- Rainmaker Properties
- RBC Holdings
- Rebel Grown
- Redwood Terrace Farm
- Sacred Earth
- Schofield Farms
- Serendipity Associates.
- Skylar Giordano
- Smoking Moses Meadows
- Soul Arc Solutions.
- Southern Humboldt Royal Cannabis Company
- Southern Humboldt Seed Collective
- Stay Conscious.
- Stoney Bottom Farms
- Sunnyside Farms
- Sunrise Mountain Farms
- Tan Oak Farms
- TERRA FIRMA FARMS
- The Bluff Creek Company.
- The Hempire Company
- THE HILLS
- The Honeydew Creek Original Family Humboldt
- The Humboldt County Farms.
- The Humboldt Leaf
- Three Little Birds Farm
- Tohnic
- Tony Palamara
- Tree Frog Botanicals
- TTF
- Twin Creeks Farm
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- Vipa Farms
- Vitale Farms Business and Support Services
- White Acres Family Farm
- Wilderroots
- Willow Creekside Farms
- Yager Creek Farm
- Yumboldt
- ZEN RIDGE FARM
Are we missing someone? Got farm news? Email California Editor David Downs at david.downs@leafly.com or message him on Instagram.
