In Episode 94 [8] of the CounterVortex podcast [9], Bill Weinberg presents a special cannabis harvest season interview with Karla Avila in Northern California's Emerald Triangle. A licensed producer of artisanal outdoor cannabis for the legal market through her homestead-based company Flowerdaze Farm [10], Avila is an advocate for small-scale "legacy" growers through her work with the Trinity County Agriculture Alliance [11]. She is also a founding member of the statewide Origins Council [12], which is seeking to establish official "appellations [13]" for cannabis, certifying a strain's regional origin. Avila discusses the challenges now facing small legacy growers who are struggling to keep alive heirloom genetics and ecologically sound cultivation methods in a legal market increasingly dominated by large-scale enterprises [14] on an agribusiness model [15]. Listen on SoundCloud [8] or via Patreon [16].
Production by Chris Rywalt [18]
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