Winners at The Golden Tarp Awards: this year’s entries are the best yet (updated)

HUMBOLDT CO., 10/11/16 — The road to the third annual Golden Tarp Awards winds through redwood forests, sunny hillsides, and past countless hitchhikers before ending at the Mateel Community Center in Redway. There, on October 1, around 800 guests filled the room to watch the best “light dep” cannabis farmers in the Emerald Triangle take the stage and receive their awards. The event featured an impressive slate of cannabis industry experts and regulators, rows of vendors and a variety of bands playing outside, but everyone crowded into the main hall for the awards ceremony.

This year’s winners were selected in four competitive categories for different strain types — floral, fuel, earth, and fruity — as well as one for the highest THC and CBD results, listed below. The winner by one vote was the Dookie Brothers’ Skittlez for the Golden Tarp Award itself (a heavy, handcrafted statue of a little man pulling a tarp).Testing results from Pure Analytics demonstrated that the 2016 group of samples was above average in potency, and entries were of higher quality and more varied than last year’s contest, which saw almost half the entries disqualified for mold or pesticide issues.