Blessed Coast Farms' Owner Talks Humboldt Cultivation, Upcoming Rec Market

This article originally appeared in the July 2017 print edition of Cannabis Business Times. To subscribe, click here.

The “Emerald Triangle,” an area in northern California comprising Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity Counties, has a reputation as the mecca of cannabis cultivation for its highly fertile soil, ideal climate and the scores of cannabis farming experts who have made the region their home.

Siobahn and Adram Darwish, owners of Blessed Coast Farms, are such experts, with second-generation experience growing cannabis.

I first met Siobhan and Adram at the Marijuana Business Conference in Washington, D.C. Siobhan, who has 15 years of cultivation experience, spoke with pride in being the first licensed farm in Humboldt County. She was relaxed, but had an edge about her that let everyone know she meant business: a true “Humboldt chick,” as another cultivator later referred to her.

Adram spoke about how he stepped away from the day-to-day of the farm to focus on the couple’s other business: Darwish Building and Consulting. That company helps other cannabis farmers in the Emerald Triangle get their businesses up to regulatory standards and assists them in the municipal licensing process.

“We are forever grateful to our community and state that we have this opportunity for our small family farms to be able to grow legally,” they said after the show.

Here, Siobhan discusses details about their organic farm, the licensing process in Humboldt County and provides perspectives on the future of the Emerald Triangle.

To read the full article in Cannabis Business Times' July edition, click here.

Photos courtesy of Blessed Coast Farms