Pot growers in California’s North Coast

Sunshine Johnston stops to smell the scent from one of numerous crops grown at Sunbodt Farms, whose name signifies that the crops are grown in the sun, not under artificial light.

Sustainable cannabis farmer Dillon Turner applies fertilizer to plants at Sunboldt Farms. Small growers fear the incursion of moneyed entities such as Big Alcohol.

Harvested cannabis buds are dried in a room on the sustainable marijuana farm owned by Sunshine and Eric Johnston.

Sustainable cannabis farmer Dillon Turner tends to a patch of pot plants at Sunboldt Farms in Redcrest, Calif.

Cannabis farmer Dillon Turner applies fertilizer to a row of plants at Sunboldt Farms.