Bringing The Farmers’ Market To The Weed
“Cannabis should be a fulcrum or a lever for the transportation of good food”
A bulb of purple-striped Medici garlic and a unique type of pepper, a cross of Joe’s Long Cayenne and Hungarian Sweet Paprika, were not something I expected to buy at the cannabis sesh in Oakland, California.
It’s the first Friday in October, and the senior cannabis club, Tokeland Seniors, is having one of its regular gatherings, which take place on the first and fifth Fridays of the month. When I get there around 6 p.m., there are no seats left, and the Root’d in the 510 cannabis lounge is swirling with activity. The basketball game is playing on a theater-sized assemblage of eight TVs, and there are about 150 people, most of them senior citizens, seated at tables toking up.
Through the haze of smoke and the rumblings of a party all around us, Casey O’Neill of HappyDay Farms is selling vegetables with his team from his Mendocino County farm. There are bags of apples, potatoes, and salad mixes on the table beside him.
“We can’t bring the weed to the farmers’ market, so we bring the farmers’ market to the weed,” O’Neill says.
The cannabis flowers HappyDay grows are at the front of the house in the dispensary. In the lounge, produce grown alongside the pot is being sold.
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