Cannabis 101 is the learning section of Farmhouse Artisan Market, a Petaluma family-owned and operated, women-led dispensary and delivery serving the North Bay out of Petaluma since 2018. The pages here answer the questions people ask at the counter before they order: what the words on the menu mean, how each product type is used, how the flower is grown, how to shop and order, and how testing and the license work.
Product types and how each one is used
The menu is organized the way the shelves are: Flowers, Pre-Rolls, Vaporizer Cartridges, Concentrates, Edibles, Drinks, Tinctures, Topicals, Accessories, Seeds, and High CBD. Each type is used differently, and each has its own questions. These pages walk through the formats people ask about most, the cannabinoids on the label besides THC, and the accessories that go with them.
- Pre-rolls on the Petaluma menu: singles, multi-packs, and infused rolls
- Edibles, drinks, tinctures, and topicals: the options that skip the smoke
- What a dab is, and how live resin, live rosin, and cured resin differ
- CBD, minus the hype: what it is and how it differs from THC
- What CBG is
- What CBN is
- The entourage effect: what the term means
- Batteries and vaporizers: why voltage matters for a cartridge
- How to roll a crutch for a joint, step by step
Our cannabis menu
Cannabis has its own vocabulary, and a lot of it is older than the licensed market. Indica, sativa, and hybrid are the labels people order by; 420 is a North Bay story; and cannabis delivery in California has a specific meaning that decides who may bring an order to your door. These pages define the terms so the menu reads plainly.
- Indica, sativa, or hybrid: what the labels do and do not tell you
- What cannabis delivery is, and how licensed delivery works in California
- The origins of 420, and the San Rafael students behind it
How to shop and order
Shopping at Farmhouse works three ways, in the store, by pickup, or by delivery, all from one menu under one California license. The articles below are a great way to learn more before choosing a dispensary, how to decide between the three ways to shop, what happens between placing a delivery order and the knock at the door, and what delivery costs.
- Choosing a dispensary in Petaluma: seven things to check
- Delivery, pickup, or in store at Farmhouse: which fits your day
- How same day delivery works, from the order to the driver’s text
How ordering works at Farmhouse
- Check your address on the Farmhouse menu, or come into the store at 1333 N McDowell Blvd STE B in Petaluma.
- Choose from the menu. The people at the counter, or a call to (707) 238-2194, can walk you through this week’s flower.
- Have a valid ID ready, at the counter or at the door.
- Pay with cash or debit; a small fee applies to debit. A same day delivery usually arrives within one to three hours, inside delivery hours.
Before your first order
If you are new to cannabis, or coming back after a long while, the people behind the counter are the shortcut. Two pages here are written for that first conversation.
- Questions to ask at a dispensary: a first-timer’s cheat sheet
- How to talk to a budtender and get a recommendation you will like
How the flower is grown
Where and how a plant is grown shows up in the jar. Full sun, greenhouse, and indoor are three ways to grow the same plant, and the growers we buy from will tell you the soil, the water, the light, and the season each leave a mark on the flower. Farmhouse buys from small, biodiverse Northern California farms, and the menu leans sungrown and seasonal, so what is on the shelf changes with the harvest. These pages cover the farming terms you will see on a label and the strain names you will see on the menu.
Terroir is used to describe the qualities of cannabis that are affected by the environment where it is grown. Terroir can affect terpene quality, flower size and elicit different phenotypes to be expressed in a strain.
Testing, labels, and the license
A certificate of analysis is the laboratory’s report on a product, and you can ask to see it for anything on the menu. Farmhouse holds one California license, C12-0000451-LIC, and you can look it up yourself on the Department of Cannabis Control’s license search.
- Why lab tests matter, and what to check on the results
- Look up license C12-0000451-LIC on the Department of Cannabis Control’s license search
What these pages will not tell you
No page in Cannabis 101 says what cannabis will do for you. Effects differ from person to person and from product to product, so where a page describes them, it describes them as people commonly report them, and nothing more. Your own notes on what you like, and a conversation at the counter, will tell you more than a label can.
Questions people ask about Cannabis 101
What is Cannabis 101?
Cannabis 101 is the learning section of farmhouse.delivery, published by Farmhouse Artisan Market in Petaluma. It gathers the site’s pages on the words on the menu, the product types, how the flower is grown, how to shop and order, and testing and the license in one place, each linked from this page.
Where should I start if I am new to cannabis?
Start with questions to ask at a dispensary, then how to talk to a budtender, and then delivery, pickup, or in store, which lays out the three ways to shop at Farmhouse. After that, pick the product type you are curious about from the list above.
Do these pages say what cannabis will do for me?
No. Effects differ from person to person and from product to product, so no page here promises an effect or an outcome. Where a page describes effects, it describes them as people commonly report them.
Where does Farmhouse deliver?
Farmhouse delivers to 22 places across Sonoma County and Marin County: Petaluma, Penngrove, Cotati, Rohnert Park, Sonoma, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, Valley Ford, and Vineburg in Sonoma County, and Novato, San Rafael, San Anselmo, Fairfax, Ross, Kentfield, Greenbrae, Larkspur, Corte Madera, Mill Valley, Sausalito, Tiburon, and Belvedere in Marin County. Delivery runs Monday to Saturday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM and Sunday from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM, with no delivery fees.
Check your address, or come by the store
See whether we deliver to your address and what is on the menu this week: check your address on the Farmhouse menu, or visit the store at 1333 N McDowell Blvd STE B, Petaluma, 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM every day. Questions first? Call (707) 238-2194.
Want to Learn More?
There’s more to discover! This information was made in collaboration with our partners Goldleaf & Haiikuu Design and is available in print form. Stay tuned for our educational event series!