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Contest & Awards
A Perennial Market Trendsetter, the 2022 Emerald Cup Marks 18 Years of Cannabis Excellence
The 18th Annual Emerald Cup Awards just lit Hollywood up! Presented live at the iconic Ricardo...
How the 2021 Emerald Cup Competition Brought Flavor Back to the Table
When a cannabis cultivator or craftsperson enters the Emerald Cup, they do so hoping to gain...
Cultivating Authenticity with Rebel Grown
Cultivating Authenticity with Rebel Grown By: Jack Riordan of Beard Bros. Pharms The tens of...
Ridgeline Farms: The Cannabis Growers That Brought the Emerald Cup Back to Humboldt
Originally Published By Jimi Devine on Cannabis Now April 11, 2019 Jason Gellman is a second...
Emerald Cup Spotlight: Sun Roots Farm
By: Direct Cannabis Network
Sun Roots Farm is a small family run homestead in Mendocino County specializing in food and medicine. Established in 2015 by Forrest Gauder and Patricia Vargas our belief is that, when the land thrives, we all thrive. The farm serves as a place of learning and reconnection to our greatest teacher, the Earth...
Nikki & Swami: A Cannabis Love Story
Seshin’ With Nikki & Swami: A Cannabis Love Story
By: Jack Riordan of Beard Bros. Pharms
In the era of the 24-hour news cycle and so much division here in the U.S. and around the world, it is too easy for many people to fall back on indifference in the absence of love. Those of us with a deep and honest relationship with cannabis are blessed, however, as this enchanted plant is rooted in love, as is the culture that has sprung up around it. The Emerald Cup is a celebration of both the plant and the people and at the heart of it all in Mendocino County you find Nikki and Swami, a couple of old school hippies turned...
CULTURE FROM CHAOS: KEVIN JODREY OF WONDERLAND NURSERY TALKS AUTHENTICITY & LEGACY
By: Jack Riordan of Beard Bros. Pharms
Growing up in the late 1970’s and early 80’s exposed Kevin Jodrey to a rugged upbringing on the streets of Oakland Beach, Rhode Island. Days and nights full of fistfights and big money back-alley deals began at an early age for Jodrey who caught his first felony cannabis case in 1983 for cultivation and distribution when he was...
Emerald Cup Award Spotlight: Ridgeline Farms
By: Direct Cannabis Network
Ridgeline Farms focuses on quality over quantity, family values and environmental stewardship in their owner-operated Cannabis Farm. They care deeply about cannabis, growing it with natural and organic techniques that both produce the highest quality product and...
Emerald Cup Award Spotlight: OM Edibles
By: Direct Cannabis Network
They are entirely passion driven and motivated by their love and connection to the cannabis plant. They believe that Cannabis is a superfood, something that you can use all parts of, and they also believe that when Cannabis is combined with...
Emerald Cup Spotlight: Newell’s Botanicals
By: Direct Cannabis Network
Newell’s Botanicals is a small company of social entrepreneurs with a mission to regenerate ecosystems and detox your cosmetics cabinet. Newell’s Botanicals initial focus was on making natural and organic skin, body, and hair care products and distributing them at...
Emerald Cup Spotlight: The Humboldt Cure
By: Direct Cannabis Network
The Humboldt Cure started as a family grow tradition, spanning over four decades in the world’s most renown region of craft sun-grown cannabis. With this on-going family tradition, they have mastered the craft of cultivation and harvesting which is no surprise they have become...
What are you smoking? The tangled web of cannabis varieties: Cannabis comes in a thousand flavors
With other plants, these would each be a distinct seed line or clonal cultivar. But...
Flower Judging for The Emerald Cup
By Nikki Lastreto If Swami and I were to count up the number of entries into The Emerald Cup...
The Emerald Cup: A Coming Together of Cannabis Culture Participants
By: Casey O'Neill I remember very well when Tim Blake asked me if I wanted to judge the Emerald...