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Representative Jared Huffman Reintroduces SHIP Act to Protect Small Cannabis Businesses
Representative Jared Huffman Reintroduces SHIP Act to Protect Small Cannabis Businesses National Craft Cannabis Coalition applauds reintroduction of bill that would enable direct-to-consumer shipping across state lines My bill would ensure CA farmers and producers can ship their products straight to consumers, which inherently protects our local agriculture industry and small businesses up and down the North Coast.” SACRAMENTO, CA, UNITED STATES, July 22, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ --...
LEGACY GENETICS STUDY INVITES HISTORIC CANNABIS COMMUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN LANDMARK PROJECT
LEGACY GENETICS STUDY INVITES HISTORIC CANNABIS COMMUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN LANDMARK PROJECT The LCG seeks to define, document, and legally protect as intellectual property the individual and collective genetic resources of legacy cannabis breeders and cannabis cultivation communities.
LEGACY CANNABIS GENETICS STUDY LAUNCHES COMMUNITY MEETINGS TO TAKE CALIFORNIA’S UNDERSTANDING TO NEXT LEVEL
LEGACY CANNABIS GENETICS STUDY LAUNCHES COMMUNITY MEETINGS TO TAKE CALIFORNIA’S UNDERSTANDING TO NEXT LEVEL Cannabis has been hidden in plain sight without academic attention for too long.
California's Ground-Breaking Legacy Cannabis Genetics Study Announces Free Public Webinars
California's Ground-Breaking Legacy Cannabis Genetics Study Announces Free Public Webinars “People and Their Plants, a Community-Driven Study” offers slate of informational webinars to engage stakeholders in state’s cannabis history This study will create a foundation that ensures value is firmly wrested back to the very people who should be recognized for their heroic efforts to breed and sustain unique genetic plant material.” — Origins Council program advisor Hannah L.
Groundbreaking Legacy Cannabis Culture and Genetics Research Launches at UC Berkeley
Groundbreaking Legacy Cannabis Culture and Genetics Research Launches at UC Berkeley Origins Council and United Core Alliance team up with CA academics to launch “Legacy Cannabis Genetics: People and Their Plants, a Community-Driven Study” Having been relegated to the shadows for the past 60 years, the legacy of California's extraordinary cannabis is finally coming into the light.” — Origins Council Executive Director Genine Coleman BERKELEY, CA, US, July 28, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- A...
Humble Bundle News, Reviews and More
We’ve been doing Humble Bundle sales for a while now and people seem to really love them. In each one, there is a collection of books from our library and you get to choose how much you pay. For each sale, a portion goes to a charity! Our latest bundle is a special one. This […] Continue Reading
National Craft Cannabis Coalition Forms to Promote Policies That Support Small Cannabis Producers
Six state-level organizations from CA, OR, WA, VT, ME, and MA form coalition to support DTC sales for small, independent cannabis producers Legally recognizing cannabis farming as agriculture and allowing craft producers to sell directly to consumers is essential to small operators, consumers, and patients across the U.S.” — Mark Barnett, Policy Director at the Maine Craft Cannabis Association SANTA ROSA, CA, UNITED STATES, September 20, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The National Craft Cannabis...
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‘LADY BUDS’ DOCUMENTARY SCREENING HELPS CA LAWMAKERS LEARN IMPACT OF CANNABIS LEGALIZATION
Craft cannabis farmer Chiah Rodrigues, featured in 'Lady Buds,' joins the screening. Activist and 'Lady Buds' subject Felicia Carbajal joins the April 25 legislator screening. Origins Council screens documentary ‘Lady Buds’ for industry association membership, state officials, public, and regulators on April 25 in Sacramento This event is a unique opportunity to educate state policy makers on the realities facing legacy cannabis cultivators . . .
Brot’s Modern German Fare Gives Energy to a Flood-Ravaged Guerneville
San Francisco Kristen Fisher Brot will serve sausages, potato salads, schnitzels, and German beer just in time for Memorial Day wekend by Gretchen Giles May 22, 2019, 10:01am PDT “I was doing menu research when it hit me: this is the food I ate as a child,” chef Crista Luedtke says with a laugh.
DigiFab, Electronics, 3D: Everything Good in One Humble Package
Is this the year that you finally make space for the water cutter or laser cutter or vinyl cutter you’ve been wanting to get? Hope so! What about that 3D printing project you’ve been thinking through or the new living room set you’d like to build with a CNC router? Absolutely, those too. If you solely researched these machines via their company’s own advertising, they’d all sound great.
As Russian River Floods, Guerneville Restaurants Fight to Stay Above Water
Restaurateur and hotelier Crista Luedtke arrived home to her flooded town of Guerneville on Tuesday night to a terrible choice. After returning from a restaurant research trip to Germany, Luedtke found a town divided by an overflowing river: She could either head home to her partner and their dogs, or check in on her hotel and restaurants on the other side of Guerneville. Leudtke chose her businesses: Her partner and their dogs will be just fine.
Arduino v Raspberry Pi: Battle of the eTitans
The annual Humble deal featuring our amazing collection of Arduino and Raspberry Pi ebooks is upon us once again, running from today through Monday, March 4. You can snap up over $300 of Make:’s best wisdom on the subject of microcontrollers for as little as $15. It’s emphatically in your best interest to check it out. But then what do you do? After all, figuring the different uses for a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino can be a head scratcher. Naturally, you want both — but they do different things.
Catch Some (Major) Air: New Space Humble Bundle!
We were glued to our screens last month as NASA successfully landed the InSight module on Mars. (Bet you were, too.) What an amazing sight a Martian sunrise turns out to be! Now, we’ve got the bug. The bigtime Space Bug. Accordingly, our final Humble Bundle ebook deal of the year is all about catching major air, whether you’re building a Cube SAT like NASA did to assist the InSight, shooting a homemade rocket up to the edge of the atmosphere, or piloting an Arduino-driven drone you built yourself.
Tips and Tales from Gareth Branwyn
In honor of the new DIY Humble collection launching today, we checked in with Make: author, columnist, and one-time editorial director Gareth Branwyn, whose most recent book, Tips and Tales from the Workshop, is the featured title in this bundle. Gareth is an accomplished author and journalist who has significantly shaped geek culture and led maker culture. His books include Borg Like Me, The Happy Mutant Handbook, and The Best of Make:.
This is It: Our Annual Electronics eBooks Deal
Having a basic understanding of electronic components means having a basic understanding of the possibilities for making in the 21st century. The fields of facial recognition and machine learning promise innovation opportunities beyond what we might thought possible even 10 years ago. Suddenly, even designing your own circuit board is an ordinary maker skill! So is programming an interactive wearable device using any language from Python to MakeCode. But it all comes down to electronics.
The Best of Digi-Fab: New eBook Collection
We’re proud to announce that a collection of our best 3D and CNC printing books is now available with StackSocial. From ‘Getting Started With’ texts that outline the essentials of digi-fab technology to advanced project-based volumes that promote hands-on learning, this trove of ebooks would cost hundreds of dollars if purchased separately. You can have them all for just $20. Here’s a run-down of the books on offer. We hope that you agree that getting this much knowledge for just $20 is a steal.
Healdsburg SHED Has a New Executive Chef and Hours
Healdsburg SHED co-owner Cindy Daniel announced yesterday that award-winning culinary director Perry Hoffman is leaving her kitchen for France and beyond. Recently named one of Eater’s California Essential 38 Restaurants in 2018, SHED brought Hoffman on in 2015 to lead its ambitious programs: the Café and the SHED Pantry Line of products. During his tenure, the Café received a 2018 Bib Gourmand and was named to Michael Bauer’s Top 100 Restaurants list for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Humble Bundle: New Books, New Podcasts
Our Programmable Boards Humble Bundle gains a frisson of excitement today by unlocking two new “mystery” titles! We have two new podcasts with their authors launching today as well. Both are ebooks that we create specifically for our Humble Bundle projects. This time, we’ve tied the new book releases with the debut of a Make: Books Podcast series in which editor Patrick DiJusto has far-ranging discussions with authors about their topics.
New 'Programmable Boards' Humble Bundle Deal Launched
A new Humble Bundle deal launches today and runs through Monday, July 2, at 10:59amPT. Featuring our best ebooks and Make: magazine issues on Programmable Boards, this collection would cost over $450 were you to purchase each one separately. Among the beauty of Humble Bundle deals is that you can pretty much choose how much you’d like to pay, from $1 to $20 — or more — while also determining the access. Perhaps you don’t need everything we’ve got on offer. But we kind of think that you do.
Popular Paella Master Opens New Santa Rosa Restaurant Next Week
Already booked to cook at over 200 events each year, caterer and chef Gerard Nebesky is adding some extra spice to his plate, opening a 65-seat restaurant in downtown Santa Rosa next week. Fresh off Napa’s Bottle Rock Festival, where his eponymous Paella stand sold the most covers of any food outlet onsite, Nebesky expands to a brick-and-mortar in the former Arrigoni’s Deli space on Fourth Street opening June 20.
Where to Eat on a Beach Day in Coastal Marin and Sonoma
A day spent out along the shores of Marin and Sonoma is a day well spent. And even if you pack a picnic, it's an additional pleasure to drop in somewhere for a beer, a cup of tea, a small bite, or a full-scale meal to tide you over until it's time for the next 10-miler along the beach. On a mission for oysters? Check out these ten great places for fresh mollusks. Follow along this route of the most notable spots arrayed from Stinson Beach to Bodega Bay from North to South.
Eater’s Guide to Memorial Day Eating and Drinking
The official summer kickoff is here, even though San Francisco summers are more hat-and-scarf than shorts-and-sandals. Either way, put on some weather-appropriate clothing and stake out some summer fun, from eating oysters in Marin to drinking wine in Napa and Sonoma to driving down the coast to Monterey. Staying in town? Treat it like a staycation and explore the city. Load up on fried chicken, take the kids out for hot dogs, or just drink beer on a patio somewhere.
Cosplay Crazy: New Humble Bundle and Competition
Today, just in time for Maker Faire Bay Area, Humble Bundle launched an awesome new cosplay ebook bundle packed with great ideas for building your own weapons, armor, fantastical costumes, and props. By lucky coincidence, this new bundle matches up with our first-ever Maker Faire Prop Contest. Ending this Friday, May 17, the contest has three great sets of prizes and is judged by a who’s-who of Bay Area cosplay experts. Humble’s “Cosplay 2.0” bundle features a variety of Make: titles.
Classic Concepts in Our New "Mad Science" Humble Bundle
For our “Mad Scientist” Humble Bundle, we delved into the archives to amass a stack of best-selling titles that are unmoved by cultural trends. After all, the essentials of chemistry and biology are indelible for the millennia; so are the basics of forensic inquiry. Fire is now as fire was then. Even the mechanics of rocketry has bedrock in the wisdom of physics. For those looking to immerse themselves in science, this Humble Bundle is for you.
9 Hot New Dining Destinations in Downtown Santa Rosa
In 2014, Dalia Martinez and Jason Sakach transformed an oil change-type building into their infinitesimally small breakfast and lunch café the Naked Pig (435 Santa Rosa Ave., Santa Rosa) and had an immediate hit by serving fresh real food. Taking over a downtown storefront in 2016, they most recently opened the Flower + Bone diner to focus on preserved and foraged foods. Rewarding the brain as well as the stomach, F+B’s cerebral portioning has prompted at least one request for second helping.
New Humble Bundle Celebrates Smart Women with 'Geek Gals' | Make:
Launching today and running for the next two weeks only, we join other publishers in a new Humble Bundle “Geek Gals” promotion, offering two ebooks from our archives — Getting Started with Adafruit Flora and Wearable Electronics — as well as a brand-new ebook written especially for this Bundle, The Geek Girl’s Guide to Geek Women by Lynn Beighley, author of more than 20 technical and nonfiction books.
Sous Geek: New Humble Bundle Deal | Make:
The new Humble Bundle “Sous Geek” cookbook collection would like you to ponder: How much liquid is in a mouse? This is exactly the type of question that Sous Geek participant and Cooking for Geeks author Jeff Potter relishes, breaking down a (metaphoric) mouse to explain how you can guess a small-sized rodent’s water weight. Once you’ve got critters sorted, how can you tell when the oven is hot enough? Put a bowl of white sugar in there, Potter suggests.
NEW: Electronic + Arduino Faves Added to Humble Bundle | Make:
Today we add two new Arduino and electronics books to our end-of-year Maker Skill Builder Humble Bundle deal, bringing the total to nearly $300 worth of ebooks available for a price you name. This particular Bundle focuses on honing essential maker skills like working with sensors and solder. We also commissioned two books just for it! Intended to get you up and using these languages immediately, Jumpstarting JavaScript and Jumpstarting C are not available anywhere else but this Humble Bundle.
Nab This Humble Bundle Deal of Skill Building Maker Books | Make:
Just in time for Hanukkah, Christmas, and the New Year — our Maker Skill Builder Humble Bundle offers up to $227 worth of killer content for just $20. Running through Dec. 27 and, as always, supporting the Maker Education Initiative, the final Humble of the year has two mystery books that will be “unlocked” on Wednesday, Dec. 20, and features two brand-new Jumpstarting books written specifically for this event.
Catch 'Em If You Can: Make Books Lightning Deals This Weekend | Make:
Amazon works in many magical ways, most of them seemingly confined to a shrouded metaphoric cave of wonders. And so it is with its weirdly semi-secret holiday weekend trove of Lightning Deals. We know the days that several of our best-loved books will be on massive discount this Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 25-26, as part of their Lightning Deals initiative. We just don’t know what time. Here’s a rundown of titles and the days on which they’ll be promoted.
Humble Bundle Exclusive: Grab Our Brand New Jumpstarting Series | Make:
Our new Electronics and Programming Humble Bundle gets even better today with the introduction of the Jumpstarting Series, featuring two new books written expressly for this deal! Jumpstarting the Arduino 101 and Jumpstarting the Raspberry Pi Zero W are ebook-only titles that we produced in order to make the Electronics and Programming bundle more enticing and an even better value. It also allows us to introduce the Jumpstarting series.
Get Charged Up with This New Electronics Ebook Humble Bundle | Make:
It’s Humble Bundle time again and we’re as excited as we always are at Humble Bundle time. A quarterly blow-out ebook sale, our Humble collections benefit the Maker Education Initiative and we’re amazed and delighted to report that we’ve donated $500,000 to this worthy nonprofit since 2015. Those monies have gone to support their Maker VISTA and Maker Corps programs in their efforts to bring comprehensive, learner-driven maker education to more youth.
A Simple Supply List for Lo-Tech Maker Camp Projects and Beyond | Make:
This week, the Maker Camp project path we’re focused on is the Give it Form track. These explorations take you from paper modeling to digital sculpting, showing how to transform flat 2D shapes into 3D forms. Start by prototyping with paper, before getting creative with cardboard construction, and then doodling and printing in 3D. This doesn’t have to be expensive. Most of the materials you need to do 3D projects at home can be found in your local crafts supply or hardware store.
Midsummer Maker Camp — It’s Never Too Late to Start! | Make:
Now in its fifth year, Maker Camp has become a regular part of the summer scene for students, teachers, parents, and makers across the globe. Based online, Maker Camp could be just a suggestion, a chimera, a virtual place to go and glean ideas. But from its aspirational concept has sprung a solid and tightly knit community that gathers to make, share, learn, and yes — fail — together.
Join in the Fun, Maker Camp Starts Today! | Make:
The free summer project series called Maker Camp launches today. Get all the fun of camp, without having to go outside and deal with the mosquitoes! Maker Camp is for young makers interested in DIY projects, making, creating, crafting, hacking, tinkering, and learning. It puts focus on STEM and STEAM essentials, and helps young people learn key science concepts while they’re having a great time exploring projects. It launches in tandem with the National Week of Making.
An Eater's Guide to the Russian River
Visitors have exalted in the Russian River's atmosphere of pure summer paradise since the train first went all the way to Guerneville in 1877. Just 75 miles North of San Francisco (approximately two hours by car), rental cabins and small family-owned resorts have long prospered there. Now new generations of vacationers are drawn by its swift green Russian River, towering redwood stands, and hot summer afternoons.
Where to Eat Along the Sonoma Coast
A day spent out along the Marin-Sonoma coastline is a day well spent, indeed. And even if you pack a picnic, it's an additional pleasure to drop in somewhere for a beer, a cup of tea, a small bite, or a full-scale meal to tide you over until it's time for the next 10-miler along the beach. On a mission for oysters? Check out these ten great places for fresh mollusks. Follow along this route of the most notable spots arrayed from Stinson Beach to Bodega Bay from North to South.
Celebrating Maker Faire Bay Area with Humble Bundle and Make: books | Make:
Even if you will not be attending Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend (May 19-21 at the San Mateo Event Center), you can still enjoy a bit of the fun and learning from afar! Whether your interests lie with drones, digital fabrication, the Internet of Things, music, history, toy-making, open source computing, or even cooking — the new Humble Bundle of Make: ebooks has got you covered.
Act Quick, Get The Arduino and Raspberry Pi 'Board Basics' Deal | Make:
Whether you’re controlling your home’s temperature with your Smartphone or helping your refrigerator keep track of its contents, the interconnected world is our world. Getting up to date and then staying current is the trick. A new ebook bundle from Make: and Humble Bundle pulls together the best, most informative titles we’ve produced on Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and other sensors, pairing them with LEGOs, Mindstorm, and robots.
It’s a Wrap: Maker Camp 2016 | Make:
“Science in elementary schools is often put to the back burner because reading and math are a focus, but I love sharing opportunities for teachers to see their children, all of their children, be successful,” says Faye Harp, the assistant principal of Heritage Elementary school in Liberty Township, Ohio. Faye, who runs her school’s STEAM Lab, participated in Maker Camp this year for the first time. It’s safe to say that it was an opportunity for success.
Hone Your Cosplay Skills with Humble Bundle Deal and Shawn Thorsson Livestream! | Make:
Sometimes you want to own something that doesn’t exist. You’ve seen it in a movie or TV show, or maybe a comic book or manga, but it’s not real. When you figure out how to make your own props and costumes in cosplay, you can have everything that you want that isn’t real. You can actually pull an item into existence.
Pay What You Want for New Make: Books and Old Favorites | Make:
Our latest Humble Bundle pay-what-you-want deal for charity pulls together books that sell out onsite at our flagship Maker Faires as well as new titles just published. Benefitting Maker Ed, our Humble Bundle always has mystery titles held back for a week before being revealed. The curtain is now up and among the two mystery titles is the first Make: book by esteemed citizen scientist Forrest Mims.
Flash Sale: Pay What You Want for an Awesome Bundle of Make: eBooks | Make:
The chance to pay what you want for a raft of ebooks while benefitting charity is generally that happy moment when Make: and Humble Bundle are hosting a flash sale. Now is just such a moment. Running from today until 10:59am PT on Wednesday, October 12, one half of this bundle features books that always sell out at Maker Faire.
Educators Gather to Reimagine Schools as Platforms for Making | Make:
Launched last year as a way to bring a small number of interested educators together before World Maker Faire New York since they were all in town anyway, our Make: Education Forum returns this Friday, Sept. 30, as a new tradition unto itself. This forum is really close to Maker Media founder and CEO Dale Dougherty’s heart. If the question is: What makes a maker? The answer invariably is: Childhood. And how do most children spend the majority of their days? In school.
33 Must-Visit Restaurants in Sonoma County
Where to eat and drink above the Golden Gate by Jess Lander, Luke Tsai, and Gretchen Giles Updated Oct 21, 2020, 11:24am PDT View as Map by Jess Lander, Luke Tsai, and Gretchen Giles Updated Oct 21, 2020, 11:24am PDT As far as wine country goes, some might say that Sonoma is Napa’s more low-key, down-to-earth little sister — dotted with small, charming, family-run wineries, relatively few of which are the kind to command the big tour-bus crowds and big baller prices you’ll find in the Napa...
10 Great Places for Oysters in Coastal Marin
With Tomales Bay promising all things fresh and briny, obviously the best thing to eat when you're out in West Marin is nothing less than the humble oyster. And why stop at just 6 or 12, when there are so many places to enjoy these salty fruits of the sea? Grab a bushel to shuck and eat immediately, or transport home for later enjoyment. Whether you've been hiking the headlands, hanging at the beach, or swimming in the bay— slurping up some oysters is a great daytime activity.
Vote for Your Fave: Jack Link's Hangry Hack-A-Thon
Will it be the dancing “Beefbot” robot or the “Magic Beef Box” musical cabinet? Perhaps the overly complicated “Rube Goldbeef” contraption is the shoo-in. Or maybe it’s the direct reward system embodied in the “Push Button, Receive Jerky.” And there are more than a few pulling for it to be “The Hand That Feeds” beef-based prosthesis.
Score Awesome Electronics eBooks with Humble Bundle
Benefiting Maker Ed to ensure that kids receive engaging learning experiences through making, Make:’s new Humble Bundle deal focuses on electronics, summer projects, and cool stuff for Father’s Day — all at price you want to pay.
11 Essential North Bay Barbecue Spots
Let's get one thing straight: It's not grilled, it's smoked. And if someone had to stay up all night to tend it, all the better. The variations on a theme are endless, and the purists are many. Some say a vinegar-based sauce is best, while others are pro-mustard sauce. Or maybe the best sauce is tomato-based, with brown sugar. Then there are the sides: potato salad or coleslaw? As Bay Area natives know, everyone around here has a bone to pick with barbecue, and there's no one right answer.
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