The  film – Weed & Wine – has been out for several years but we just discovered it. All you folks who grow and  harvest the cannabis plant are going to appreciate this film for its honest look at the joys and traumas of farming.. The story centers on two families – a grower in Humboldt County, where the crop is cannabis, and a wine grower/vintner in the Southern Rhone where the crop is grapes and wine.  Rachel Richman Cohen who directed and produced the film, noted it’s about a lot more than the struggles of farmers. In an interview she gave with Wine Country Geographic, she noted, “It’s a film about complicated family dynamics that arise when the kids are expected to go into the family business in these time where the weather is so uncertain.”

Amazon noted: “WEED & WINE peeks behind the curtain at two oft-hidden professions – that of a French vintner and a California cannabis grower. In this sumptuous and moving documentary, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, Rebecca Richman Cohen, has captured the profound joys and deep uncertainties of two farming families as they fight to protect their legacy, their craft, and their land.”
Wine Country Geographic had this to say. “In her latest documentary, Weed & Wine, filmmaker Rebecca Richman Cohen captures the fleeting joys and profound challenges that come with being a multi-generational farmer. By focusing on two pools of subjects half a world apart, Cohen reveals how much craft farmers in both cannabis and viticulture truly share in common. Deep in the woods of Humboldt, Kevin Jodrey (pictured here) and his son Nocona cultivate cannabis. In the Ardèche region of France’s Southern Rhone Valley, Hélène Thibon and her son, Aurélien-Nathanaël Thibon-Macagno, face the bleak realities of climate change while readying their centuries-old vineyard for another harvest.
Click HERE to watch the trailer.
Available to stream on several platforms including Amazon.