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Here's the link to a news report on Vice, about our State Fair this year. Put our fair on your calendar for next year, lol. Maybe you can be a judge -- at least for one of the county fairs, if they start including this crop now. The plants had to be small enough to transport, though. The ones I was working with earlier this week were in 6-footx6-foot beds and the stalks were big, nearly 5 inches across. Nobody was moving those. Maybe in the future the county and state fairs will be judging the harvest, not just the plants. http://www.vice.com/read/there-are-prize-winning-pot-plants-on-display-at-the-oregon-state-fair

Haha. I thought of you and your upbringing the last couple days, as I was back in the boonies, helping a friend get the harvest in. It's such a specialty crop. It was a category for judging in our Oregon State Fair this year, too, just like local beers and wines.

Really, just like beers and wine? I'll have to come to Oregon to see that. Try samples and see the quality first-hand.