Editor’s note: This story is part of Good Times’ annual Home & Garden 2019 magazine. Read the full issue here. Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands? After 20 years in business, Refugio Ortega isn’t sure exactly how many succulents, cacti, flowers, herbs and other plants are currently growing at his overflowing namesake Watsonville nursery. What the patriarch…
Lauren Hepler is the digital editor of Good Times and a reporter who has contributed to the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, the Guardian and others.
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Cosmo D Cooks Up Gourmet Edibles
Editor’s note: This story was first published in ‘Dilated Pupil,’ an annual magazine about student culture in Santa Cruz. David Brissenden used to hate edibles. But the chef and owner of local cannabis food company Cosmo D’s Outrageous Edibles has come a long way from the stale weed brownies that first soured him on the…
