Opinion: Why this environmentalist farmer will vote to recall Gavin Newsom
By Ed Seaman More than a third of Californians are living at or near the poverty level. We pay the highest income taxes and the highest gas taxes in the country. The extent of the damage that the state government has done and continues to do to our children, our small business economy, our poor Read More →
Glass House Brands reports Q2 loss, growing revenue as it plans expansion into Ventura County
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Two cannabis growers in Santa Barbara County to pay environmental fines
The Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office has settled cases against two cannabis growers for violating environmental laws. Both settlements were announced Aug. 17. The first was with 805 Agricultural Holdings, which will pay $40,000 in civil penalties to a variety of state and county agencies. The fines settle a complaint that the grower “unlawfully Read More →
Dubroff: Ventura County ballot measure put Houweling’s in the cannabis cat bird seat
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Tri-county region’s total farm revenue up 4.6% in 2020
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Houweling’s Tomatoes will become state’s biggest cannabis greenhouse
Houweling’s Tomatoes is closing its 125-acre Camarillo greenhouse and selling the facility to a cannabis grower — a deal made possible by a Ventura County ballot measure last year that was sponsored and supported by a company affiliated with Houweling’s. Houweling’s, an indoor tomato and cucumber grower that has been in the Camarillo area since Read More →
Houweling’s to close Camarillo greenhouse, lay off 486 workers
Houweling’s Tomatoes, an indoor tomato and cucumber grower based in Camarillo, will lay off nearly 500 employees and will cease operations by the end of September, according to a notice filed with the state of California and county of Ventura. California’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, or WARN, requires companies to notify state and Read More →
