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By Mikal Jakubal If the full moon of two weeks ago was the “Ripoff Moon,” as my thieving neighbor put it, this dark moon has to be called “Rot-off Moon,” in dubious honor of the brown stem mold that is sweeping Northcoast pot gardens. “Stem mold” or “bud mold,” as it’s alternately called, is a species of [read more ...] By Mikal Jakubal Checking the weather report this morning, it looks pretty typical for August in SoHum: 100° today, cooling down to the high 80s during the week. A small reservoir-worth of water will get dumped on pot plants here in the next day or so. By the weekend, however, they’re forecasting a slight chance of [read more ...] By Mikal Jakubal Things have been a bit slow the last two weeks on the film production front. I was out of town and then had a cold for a few days, so didn’t do much. My participant who had the emergency surgery a couple weeks ago is doing well. Tomorrow at 8 a.m. I’ll be [read more ...] By Mikal Jakubal [fb-like] I got a phone message from one of my subjects explaining why she hadn’t callled me back a few days ago. Turns out she had a health emergency and ended up in surgery. While she was in the hospital, her child fell and required stitches. Both are home now and will be fine, [read more ...] By Mikal Jakubal [fb-like] “You’re definitely a boy. Nice try dude!” Said one of my film subjects after identifying and ripping out another one of half a dozen six-foot-tall male marijuana plants from her garden. It took pulling with all her might to uproot the them from the beds where they had been so carefully tended since I [read more ...] “Every adult should then grow cannabis on a limited area, about 30 grams of the drug and have to consume.” [fb-like] A journalist from Financial Times Deutschland was up here last month researching a story about the pot economy and the effects of legalization. Since she was interviewing one of my film [read more ...] By Mikal Jakubal [fb-like] Spent the morning at a somewhat typical homestead down a typical dirt road in SoHum, filming three generations of women and girls in the garden planting out the pot plants and tending the vegetable garden. Recorded stories of how they got here, some wild tales in the early days and what things are [read more ...] By Mikal Jakubal [fb-like] Besides trying to make a film, I run a small plant nursery Plants For The People that is right on the county road. I have a big “open” sign out, trying to draw people in from the road to look at my plants. (I also run a portable sawmill and backhoe.) I’m the [read more ...] |
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