HAYFORK — It’s shortly before 8 a.m. and a touch above freezing at the Trinity County Fairgrounds. The food bank’s February distribution won’t begin for another half hour, but the line of cars already ...

The holiday season is a time for connection, reflection, and celebration. For the small, family-run farms of the Emerald Triangle, it’s also an opportunity to highlight the resilience and ingenuity of ...

Each January, we tell ourselves stories to make it through the season. Resolutions, declarations of self-betterment, and if you’re me, Dry January. It’s like being shot from a cannon through the ...

Emerald Triangle communities were built on cannabis. Legalization has pushed them to the brink Joseph Felice, right, and Kim Payne wait in line to receive food at the Trinity County Food Bank ...

HAYFORK — It’s shortly before 8 a.m. and a touch above freezing at the Trinity County Fairgrounds. The food bank’s February distribution won’t begin for another half hour, but the line of cars already ...

But the “green rush” that resulted has arguably harmed the Emerald Triangle more than it helped. Pots full of soil sit unused and growing weeds on Scott Murrison’s land in Hayfork on Feb. 7 2023.