Emerald Triangle
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Sep 21, 2026
MikePANELIST
So having the right amount of moisture in the air and elevation, just like you're talking about.
MikePANELIST
That's why the hills of, of Mendocino and Humboldt County, what they call the Emerald Triangle, have-
Broderick ChavezGUEST
Mm
MikePANELIST
... were, were long famous for that before everybody started engineering it in their garage.
Jesse IHOST
It was actually my uncle.
Jesse IHOST
He lived in a little cabin in Northern California in what they call the Emerald Triangle.
Jesse IHOST
So the biggest ganja growing area in California.
Jesse IHOST
Wow, okay.
Sean CherrySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm also on the board with Hannah and on the marketing committee.
Sean CherrySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And yeah, we're here representing for... all of the local brands and farmers in Humboldt County and the Emerald Triangle, really.
Sean CherrySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's 12 farms in this box, but not just from Humboldt.
Sean CherrySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They're also from Trinity and from Mendocino as well.
Maggie PhilipsbornCORRESPONDENT
well first introduce yourself and then tell us more about it
Walter WoodSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So I'm Walter Wood from Soul Spirit Farm and we've been up here farming for 25 odd years and we grow some regenerative cannabis and we like to tell people that the best flower out there is sun grown and grown in the earth.
Walter WoodSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And so we're just really proud of regenerative farming in the Emerald Triangle.
Walter WoodSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And so my wife here has put together this beautiful box that has 12 different farms represented from the Emerald Triangle.
Billy JensenHOST
It's very much still like the Wild Wild West up there.
Billy JensenHOST
And that was where they call it the Emerald Triangle.
Billy JensenHOST
This is a little bit kind of – some people like to include it in the Emerald Triangle.
Billy JensenHOST
It's a little bit further out.
Billy JensenHOST
It's a little bit more desert-y.
MargaretHOST
The clearest example of this is a region you've probably heard me mention before if you've been around the show for a while.
MargaretHOST
Northern California, Humboldt, Mendocino, and Trinity Counties, what eventually got nicknamed the Emerald Triangle.
MargaretHOST
It's the late 60s.
MargaretHOST
People were leaving San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury and heading north into those hills looking for cheap land and a chance to live outside the mainstream.
Ariel Delgado DixonGUEST
I actually have it right on my desk.
Ariel Delgado DixonGUEST
It's called Tales of the Emerald Triangle.
Ariel Delgado DixonGUEST
Um-
Barbara DeMarco-BarrettHOST
Oh, okay
Len MayHOST
fueled you with FlowCon? And look, I'm going to preface this.
Len MayHOST
I spent a lot of time in the Emerald Triangle.
Len MayHOST
I was in Nevada City.
Len MayHOST
I met.
Michael SteinmetzGUEST
And I saw him like two, three times in the purchasing room over like that couple months period.
Michael SteinmetzGUEST
And I smoked a joint with him once or twice in the parking lot.
Michael SteinmetzGUEST
And he was like, hey, have you ever been up to the Emerald Triangle? I'll take you a trip.
Michael SteinmetzGUEST
I was like, no, of course I've heard about it, but I've never been.
Obie StricklerGUEST
Born and raised in Southern Oregon.
Obie StricklerGUEST
Parents moved out of the big city down in L.A. up to kind of the northern tip of the Emerald Triangle.
Obie StricklerGUEST
So cannabis has been in the fabric of my life and this area, you know, since I was born.
Obie StricklerGUEST
You know, I just did an op-ed in High Times.
Lynn SmythHOST
This account is of two Bigfoot sightings and ongoing strange activity in Northern California.
Lynn SmythHOST
I'm originally from Southern California, but I've always had ties to Northern California around the Emerald Triangle area, Mendocino, and Humboldt.
Lynn SmythHOST
After a while, I made the move up there.
Lynn SmythHOST
I already knew the Bigfoot subject from when I was a kid and seen the Patterson-Gimlin film and knowing it was tied to that general region, so I stayed interested and did some reading.
Chad CultgenHOST
This is where everybody has gotten in trouble.
Chad CultgenHOST
Like California, what is known as the Emerald Triangle, which is in Northern California where a bunch of weed is grown.
Chad CultgenHOST
under prior presidents they would just send in the fbi dea whoever to just bust their operations and like haul everybody to jail even though recreational marijuana use is legal in california federally it was not but now federally it's been decriminalized but in texas they're like fuck that recriminalized and so now if you get caught with any weed you're going to jail for life in texas
Mary LouHOST
for life it's fucking insane but for
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