{"id":3886,"date":"2026-07-06T12:11:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=3886"},"modified":"2026-07-06T12:11:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:11:02","slug":"new-for-the-backyard-herb-garden-cannabis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=3886","title":{"rendered":"New for the backyard herb garden: cannabis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From her postage-stamp-sized backyard near the BART tracks, Penny Barthel is growing a revolution.<\/p>\n

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About 10 years ago, the longtime educator, gardener, author and foodie began to raise cannabis in her lush, colorful kitchen garden in Albany. A novice to cannabis, Barthel\u2019s project was as extension of her love of \u201cmessing around with herbs\u201d to formulate new recipes. She also wanted to help a friend grow the plant for a loved one with stage 4 cancer.<\/p>\n

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In mid-May, Barthel held up a roughly six-inch-tall \u201cBlue Orchid\u201d cannabis plant in a small pot that she\u2019ll soon transplant into her garden, alongside her mint, thyme, blueberries, edible flowers and lemon trees. She expects this and the \u201cOrange Cream Pop,\u201d \u201cLemon Grass\u201d and \u201cPenny\u2019s Pine\u201d cannabis plants she\u2019ll be growing this summer to shoot up as high as\u00a0 6 or 7 feet during the season, which lasts until early October.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey really look like shaggy Christmas trees when mature,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Barthel wants everyone to be able to grow cannabis in their backyards \u2014 because it\u2019s fun and because they can put the plant to use in a variety of ways, including therapeutically. Cannabis is used medically to help people sleep, reduce anxiety, alleviate minor aches and more.<\/p>\n

Of course, Barthel\u2019s mission would have put her on the wrong side of California law before 2016, when Proposition 64 made recreational use legal. Theoretically, her mission still puts her in the crosshairs of the U.S. government, because cannabis continues to be classified as a Schedule 1 drug with \u201cno accepted medical use\u201d by the feds.<\/p>\n

But Barthel wants to challenge what she calls the \u201cunexamined narratives\u201d that cannabis is a dangerous gateway drug or can only be appreciated by stoners. She doesn\u2019t see why cannabis can\u2019t become as much a summer fixture in backyard gardens as tomatoes, beans or other popular annuals.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI will say my real goal is pretty lofty. I want cannabis to be legalized and to be available and safe and legal for anyone who wants to grow it in their backyards,\u201d said Barthel. \u201cAnd the best way to do that is just to encourage people to grow it and see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of her mission, Barthel published her 2021 book \u201cThe Cannabis Gardener\u201d (Ten Speed Press), after her initial research into cannabis biology and its applications in medicine, food and even cosmetics prompted her to fall in love with it, she said. Four years ago, she began partnering with Emily Gogol, an Oregon-based grower and advocate for home cultivation, to give talks on cannabis at nurseries and garden clubs around the Bay Area, from Concord to Dublin to Cupertino.<\/p>\n

The two women have booked an increasing number of speaking gigs over the past year, including at popular venues like Sloat Garden Centers and SummerWinds nurseries around the Bay Area, and even at the venerable Marin Art and Garden Center. To Barthel, who also serves on the board of the Berkeley Herbal Center, the uptick in speaking gigs signals a shift in public attitudes. So, too, does the fact that some nurseries have begun to stock and sell cannabis seeds themselves.<\/p>\n

Barthel\u2019s talks tend to unfold like any hour-long gardening class at your local nursery. She introduces people to the basics of raising the plant from seed to flower and offers tips on best soils to use and best practices for growing in a pot, raised bed or in ground. For novice growers, Barthel likes to emphasize that cannabis is hardy and fast-growing like a weed. At the same time, she warns that the plant is highly sensitive to light and needs lots of direct sunlight \u2013 six to eight hours a day. That means that cannabis thrives in certain micro-climates and won\u2019t work as an indoor plant unless the grower invests in a professional-level lighting set-up.<\/p>\n

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Barthel also discusses the advantage of using \u201cfeminized\u201d seeds and how to harvest, dry, cure or store one\u2019s grow. Her book, with its glossy color photographs, also offers recipes for turning dried buds into salves, tisanes and tinctures, and using home-made cannabutter to make treats such as CBD-infused vanilla gummies and cannabis chocolate sauce.<\/p>\n

But because cannabis isn\u2019t just any plant, Barthel also touches on topics outside the usual gardening class curriculum. That includes the legal complexities of outdoor growing. State law allows people over 21 to grow up to six plants for recreational use \u2014 and that\u2019s per household, not per person. Barthel also advises growers to check their city or county regulations. Local municipalities, as well as landlords and HOAs, may impose further restrictions, such as requiring that outdoor plants be kept in a secure, fenced-off area. Or they may ban outdoor cultivation altogether.<\/p>\n

Any talk about growing cannabis has to start with helping people understand THC and CBD and how these compounds make people feel. THC, the plant\u2019s primary mind-altering, psychoactive compound, is associated with euphoria and getting high, while non-psychoactive CBD is good for anxiety and other maladies, according to Barthel. Different strains, or cultivars, come with different concentrations of either or both.<\/p>\n

Following a May 14 class, Barthel suggested to Chris Michon, a first-time grower, that he try \u201cPenny\u2019s Pine,\u201d a cultivar sold by Gogol\u2019s Grow It From Home nursery and named for Barthel. She said: \u201cIt\u2019s one-to-one. Half THC and half CBD.\u00a0 It smells like pine, and it\u2019s going to be uplifting. It will be a fun high.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve been looking for that,\u201d Michon said. \u201cNot paranoid?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot paranoid,\u201d Barthel assured him.<\/p>\n

During the May 14 talk, the audience included members of the Sloat Garden Center staff, all of whom showed excitement about learning to raise a new plant or expanding on knowledge they already have. Barthel also passed around jars of dried cannabis buds for audience members to sniff, as if they were breathing in the aroma of a wine to get a full sense of its flavor.<\/p>\n

Every once in a while, Barthel meets someone who\u2019s had very little experience with cannabis, but is dealing with a serious personal issue that has them wanting to explore cannabis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis one woman came in,\u201d Barthel recalls. \u201cShe was curious because her husband had been diagnosed with a brain tumor, and they had a 4-year-old. This caused her to do a lot of rethinking of her life and to think, \u2018I need to go to herbal school,\u2019 for her own use or maybe to help her husband endure treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the May 14 talk, Michon\u2019s friend Shawn Chan likewise said he had little experience with pot \u2014 \u201cI don\u2019t even smoke.\u201d But Barthel\u2019s talk convinced him to try growing a plant in his backyard.<\/p>\n

\u201cI consider myself a zero green thumb, but I started growing some cherry tomatoes as a hobby,\u201d he said. \u201cNow that (this is) legal, I\u2019ll give it a try.\u201d<\/p>\n

The only thing that made Chan hesitant about the project was the location of his home, close to the ocean. He worried that summer coastal fog would keep his plant from getting enough sun. Other than that, he was OK with not knowing yet what he wanted to do with the harvest. \u201cI\u2019ll figure that out when the time comes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Even among the curious, people in the gardening world remain \u201cshy\u201d about cannabis, Barthel said. One garden club consulted with their attorney to make sure it was legal to host Barthel. Some nurseries also won\u2019t heavily promote her appearances. \u201cThey want to feel things out and see how customers will respond,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

As Barthel and other cannabis scholars say, the federal and state government crackdowns over the past century fueled the negative stereotypes and were always more grounded in culture wars than in evidence of medical harm. Starting in the 1910s and 1920s, anti-cannabis laws were introduced in the Midwest and Southwest to target Mexican Americans Later, John Ehrlichman, one of Richard Nixon\u2019s top aides, admitted that the the president launched the war on drugs in 1971 to have a reason to prosecute Black people and hippies.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of thousands of people have been incarcerated on cannabis-related offenses, and the DEA\u2019s Schedule 1 classification effectively stalled medical research for decades. While medical use is now allowed in most states, adult recreational use remains illegal in nearly half of them. It\u2019s also illegal to take cannabis across state lines or to possess it on federal lands, including national parks. Barthel laments that anti-cannabis laws encouraged growers to develop highly potent strains, just as Prohibition in the 1920s put potentially lethal moonshine into circulation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt turned cannabis into jet fuel,\u201d Barthel said.<\/p>\n

The lingering negative narratives are reflected in the way that California\u2019s legal cannabis dispensaries can be intimidating places for first-time users, where they have to show their IDs and pay for purchases in cash because most major banks and credit cards won\u2019t process transactions, Barthel said.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s another reason that people should be able to grow their own cannabis in their own backyards, said Barthel, who is excited about teaching more classes in the coming year and to even introduce cannabis cultivation at a major gardening show in 2027.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m hoping,\u201d she said, \u201cthat as more and more of us grow and enjoy this plant we will learn a new story about cannabis, allowing it to be what it truly is: a healing, helpful, easy to grow garden herb.\u201d<\/p>\n

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