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Cannabis Operator, Winemaker Make Peace in the Sta. Rita Hills of Santa Barbara County
Cannabis operator John De Friel signed an agreement not to sue Kathy Joseph, owner of the Fiddlestix Vineyard, if pesticide from grapes should contaminate his plants. Photo by Melinda Burns.
A zoning permit for the 24-acre Central Coast Agriculture cannabis operation at 5645 Santa Rosa Road west of Buellton was approved by county Planning Commission on May 12. The owner, John De Friel, also runs a 30-acre cannabis operation at 8701 Santa Rosa; it includes a processing building and was approved by the county Board of Supervisors on May 4. Courtesy photo.
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In January 1848, six Mormon men bunked together in a small wood cabin along the South Fork of the American River in Cullumah, as the Nisenan named the land where they had lived for thousands of years, meaning “beautiful valley.” The men, part of the U.S. Army Mormon Battalion, had traveled from Iowa to San Diego to fight in the Mexican-American War, which, fortuitously or not, was close to an end upon their arrival. The war allowed the victorious United States to acquire more than 500,000 square miles of Mexican territory from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean. Undeterred, the men headed north to become laborers at John Sutter’s sawmill