For many people, Sonoma County conjures up images of rolling hills, world-class vineyards and weekend wine-tasting getaways, but there's more than just grapes being grown there. There's also a blossoming cannabis industry.
"It's got its challenges, like growing cannabis anywhere. It's hard to find the perfect environment anywhere to grow cannabis," said Erich Pearson, a cannabis grower in Sonoma County and CEO of SPARC.
From Mendocino and San Francisco to Sonoma, Pearson has grown cannabis in California for more than a decade.
"This year has been great," Pearson said, speaking on the weather in Sonoma County. "It's been extremely dry, a little bit hotter than we like, but with that, we get drier evenings and drier mornings, and that results in less mold pressure, and that results in us letting the flowers fully mature to really get a ripe fruit."
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