A heritage California cannabis farm on the Mendocino coast. Three generations of one family. Same land, same way of growing it, since the year the lease was signed.
See the fall harvest
The fall harvest came in lighter than last year — about 720 pounds of trimmed flower — but the cure on what came off the back ridge is the best we’ve had in maybe four seasons. Six SKUs on the shelf and online, starting November 14. Allocation opens for long-time customers a week before.
Earl Hadley signed the lease in 1976 right after he moved up from Berkeley. He planted the first crop that spring, cured it in the same barn that’s still our cure room today.
His daughter Margaret took over in 1999 after the medical legalization era opened up. Her son Jesse runs the day-to-day now — started in 2018 — but Earl is still on the payroll, still chooses the year’s cuts at 78, and Margaret still works the seasonal trim crew.
Annual finished flower: about 2,400 pounds. Two retail partners in California carry us. Everything else moves through the farmstand. We’re small on purpose. We’re going to stay that way.
“The fall harvest finished last Saturday. About 720 pounds of trimmed flower came in — smaller than last year, but the cure on what came out of the back ridge is the best we’ve had in maybe four seasons. Margaret and Jesse have it all hung now. The first jars open around Thanksgiving. Six things will be on the farmstand and in the two California stores that carry us, starting December 1. Thanks for sticking with us another year. The farm is still here. The cure room is still small. The family is still doing the work.”
Every bud that ships from Halfmoon is hand-trimmed by a person who has been on the trim crew for at least one full season. We don’t machine-trim. We never have.
The cure runs 32 days minimum — longer than the standard for California cannabis by a factor of three. Slow cure is the entire difference between flower you taste and flower you tolerate.
The cultivation discipline Earl set in 1976 hasn’t shortcut once. Sun-grown outdoor. Hand-trimmed. Single-strain harvests. 32-day minimum cure. Same five practices for fifty seasons.
Long-time customers get first allocation access seven days before the public on-sale. Sign up to be on the list for spring '27 allocation.
Request the spring '27 list
Halfmoon Cove, CA 95460
Mendocino County
Cash and cards. Closed Sunday and Monday. Ask the floor for the current shelf.