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Donated tub of pot trimming supplies at volunteer fire department auction As I’ve probably mentioned already, I’ve been on the Briceland Volunteer Fire Department for over 10 years now. (My first day of EMT training was September 11, 2001, in fact.) Yesterday evening, during our regularly-scheduled bi-monthly training meeting, the discussion about fighting fire in [read more ...] By Mikal Jakubal This post from two weeks ago was about a woman in Redway who has been feeding ravens and now claims someone is poisoning them. Her solution is a bit, um, wacky, to say the least. The post generated a few comments, one of which I’ll excerpt below because it got me thinking about our [read more ...] By Mikal Jakubal Whale Gulch Labor Day party at Four Corners.
One of my main documentary peeps lives in the Whale Gulch community, possibly the most remote region of the SoHum area, straddling the Humboldt/Mendocino County lines on the ridge above the ocean. You get there via a winding, one-and-a-half-lane mostly-paved road with blind corners and [read more ...] Internet antennas atop ancient redwood SoHum’s off-grid lifestyle and our extremely rugged topography create special access challenges, whether by car or computer. We live on the dusty, tortuous, slide-prone backroads of both the physical landscape and the internet superhighway. We surf the web in high-clearance 4WD. While many people are still on 16K-24K dialup modem connections [read more ...] By Mikal Jakubal “Huh?” That was my first thought as I drove by the woman holding the sign in Redway this morning. Being one of the more unusual protest signs I’d ever seen, I pulled over and walked back. Here’s the short version that I got from her, paraphrasing a bit since I didn’t record it. She (who [read more ...] By Mikal Jakubal Note: I had started the previous post about seeds before the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. I wanted to finish the story as it was, so what I excluded was the fact that as I was off photographing those seeds, a boombox in the background at the friend’s house was tuned to our local [read more ...] I’m busy with family over the holiday, so won’t be posting a whole lot, but I had to share this from Kym Kemp. For those who don’t live in pot-growing country, the standard unit of trade is one pound of weed and pounds conveniently fit in Reynolds turkey bags—which are also reputedly smell-proof, even to [read more ...] The 20th annual Hemp Festival continues today with some interesting policy forums starting at 2:30pm. Worth checking out if you want to keep up on where the industry is heading in Humboldt County and statewide. Hemp Fest 2010 – Day 3 – Interactive Forum & Panel Discussion What: An Interactive (Hemp) Forum and Panel Discussion By Mikal Jakubal It's just a few brown leaves… After yesterday’s tarantula in the trim scene photo, I thought I’d share these much more gruesome (to growers) images of pot-farm terror. Powdery mildew, mold and stretching buds are three end-of-season demons that rival thieves and law enforcement as the stuff of grower nightmares and B-grade slasher [read more ...] Maybe it was after some “White Widow.” (Caution, open this post carefully to avoid upsetting contents.) Ah, so this is what the “trick” part of “trick or treat” means when you don’t give candy to the little goblins at the door. I thought it meant they’d egg your house or cover the trees in your yard with [read more ...] |
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