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Legalization’s onward march into the mainstream means that more gardeners than ever can grow some cannabis. Michigan and Illinois added medical marijuana cultivation rights this year. Oklahoma is in the midst of a legal medical genetics boom. The list goes on and on. Adult-use cannabis is legal in 11 states and more than 30 states…

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Most cannabis growers live in parts of the country with summers too short and cool to grow common cannabis varieties to full maturity. On this episode of Shaping Fire, host Shango Los speaks with Nat Pennington of Humboldt Seed Company about breeding for faster, early-finishing cannabis flowers, the importance of knowing the cannabis plant intimately,…

Warren Bobrow=WB: Where are you from originally? How did you decide on Humboldt? I grew up on a Biodynamic farm, what are your thoughts about this methodology in outdoor grown cannabis? Nathaniel Pennington=NP: I’m originally from Upstate New York and Philadelphia, but I hightailed it out to Humboldt County when I turned 18 after a…

Humboldt Seed Company – Eureka, CA “I bred my first seeds in 1998 in Humboldt County and fell in love with the idea of being able to create and explore new kinds of cannabis that the world has never seen before,” says Nathaniel Pennington, founder of Humboldt Seed Company. At 19 years young, Pennington moved…

t’s no longer a secret that Humboldt County’s economy is contracting. Countywide, sales tax receipts in the 2017-2018 fiscal year plunged 15 percent from the year before and it’s obvious, especially in Old Town Eureka, that businesses are feeling the pinch. Vacant storefronts abound. Anecdotally, anyway, the economic decline seems directly attributable to changes in…