Sonoma Hills Farm brings its first indoor-grown harvest to market
The Petaluma Gap farm's wholesale menu now lists indoor-grown Pink Jesus, years after the farm won the county's first legal cannabis cultivation permit.
SONOMA: Sonoma Hills Farm is selling indoor-grown cannabis for the first time. The Petaluma Gap farm's own wholesale menu now lists an indoor lot of Pink Jesus, its flagship sativa, testing at 21 percent THC and described by the farm as the bouquet it is known for, indoors for the first time.
The indoor crop has been a long time coming. When Sonoma County granted the farm its cultivation permit on September 30, 2019, the first legal cannabis permit issued in the county, the approved plan for the site paired a dry-farmed outdoor garden with an indoor greenhouse and a facility for plant propagation and strain development, and the first harvest was then slated for late 2020.
The farm is led by Aaron Keefer, the former culinary gardener for the Thomas Keller Group and The French Laundry, who joined as vice president of cultivation and production. The farm describes its approach as bridging cannabis with Sonoma's agricultural legacy and the farm-to-table lifestyle.
For Sonoma County's still-young legal cannabis industry, the greenhouse marks a turn: a farm that helped open the county's legal era is betting its flagship strains can thrive under glass as well as under the Petaluma Gap sun.
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