Farmer and the Felon is a California flower and pre-roll brand from CannaCraft, the Santa Rosa cannabis manufacturer co-founded by Ned Fussell and Dennis Hunter. It sells sungrown and greenhouse flower in eighths, smalls, quarters and ounces, plus pre-rolls, infused pre-rolls and cold cure rosin, all inside California.
The tagline is Cannabis for Change, and a share of proceeds backs Last Prisoner Project. The flower has Emerald Cup hardware to go with it.
Two growers behind CannaCraft
Fussell and Hunter joined forces to build CannaCraft in 2014, and the Farmer and the Felon line reached licensed California retailers in March 2020. The name casts Fussell as the farmer and Hunter as the felon, a nod to Hunter's past.
Fussell first farmed in Costa Rica, came to California at 19 to help Mendocino growers with harvest and settled in Northern California in 2007. His method is plain: plant directly into the ground and amend with compost. The brand's story calls Hunter an Emerald Triangle cultivator and a lifetime cannabis advocate.
Fussell framed the line as a way to reconnect CannaCraft with its roots in the prohibition-era movement. The brand site puts it as preserving the countercultural history of that era in the here and now.
Sungrown flower at everyday prices
CannaCraft pitches the line as top shelf cannabis at everyday prices, made for the value-oriented shopper who believes in doing good. The menu runs eighths, Half Ounce Smalls, quarters and ounces, plus a Legacy Collab Series. Eighths come in jars made from 58% recycled glass, capped with lids of 100% reclaimed ocean plastic.
The March 2020 launch menu featured Shark Shock, Mimosa, Lemondrass, Motorbreath and Vanilla Frosting in eighth, quarter and half-ounce bags, plus 1-gram pre-rolls. March and Ash's January 2026 brand page lists Blue Dream, OG phenos, Vanilla Frosting, Ice Cream Cake and MAC on its San Diego and Imperial Valley shelves.
Lemon Sponge Cake and the Emerald Cup
Gorilla Snacks won first place for Best Sungrown Flower at the 2021 Emerald Cup. The next year went bigger. At the 18th Emerald Cup awards on May 14, 2022, Lemon Sponge Cake took Best of Show across all flower and first place in Sungrown Flower.
The same night, Georgia Pie placed third in Sungrown Flower, Double OG Chem fourth, 92 OG eighth and Sticky Buns 11th. Lemon Sponge Cake had already won Best Sungrown Flower at High Times' Cannabis Cup SoCal: People's Choice Edition 2020.
Pre-rolls, Kalya hash and cold cure rosin
Pre-rolls widened the menu on September 9, 2021. Single 1-gram joints came in Double OG Chem, Crashers, Mac One, Peanut Butter Breath and Orange Creamsicle. Three-packs of 1-gram joints ran Gelatti and Wedding Cake, and seven-packs of half-gram joints totaled 3.5 grams in Ice Cream Cake, Pizzelle and Gelatahoe.
On June 17, 2022, the brand launched its Champion Infused Pre-Roll Series with Kalya Extracts. The 1-gram pre-rolls pair cup-winning Lemon Sponge Cake, Double OG Chem and Sticky Buns with Kalya's ice water hash, and the Kalya Infused Preroll still sits on the product menu.
The cold cure rosin starts as ice water hash. It gets pressed at high pressure and low heat, then whipped and cured at room temperature into a badder-like consistency, per a September 2022 explainer the brand wrote with input from Kalya.
Legacy farms and Sun+Earth
The Legacy Collab Series works with small and heritage farms that moved into the legal market after operating under Prop 215 between 1996 and 2017. The goal, the brand says, is to bring rare varieties to market while honoring shared cannabis culture.
The first Partner Series drop, announced November 25, 2020, brought Sun+Earth Certified flower in Lava Cake and Sundae Driver. Sun+Earth certifies cannabis grown under the sun, in the soil, without chemicals, by fairly paid farmers, and March and Ash still flags Sun+Earth certification on some Farmer and the Felon products in 2026.
Buy a bag, make a difference
Last Prisoner Project, a nonprofit coalition of cannabis industry leaders, executives and artists working on restorative justice, is the brand's cause partner. Farmer and the Felon sums up the model as buy a bag, make a difference, and its site adds a direct donation option.
The brand's blog carried the cause too. It ran a four-part history of cannabis prohibition in California in April 2020, alongside grower profiles, farm partner features and product explainers.
CannaCraft's roster and the 2026 shelf
CannaCraft, founded in 2014 and based at 2330 Circadian Way in Santa Rosa, runs Farmer and the Felon alongside ABX, Care By Design, Hi-Fi Sessions, Loud + Clear and Humboldt Terp Council. CRFT Manufacturing, Inc. makes the products. Weedmaps lists the brand under distributor license C11-0000937-LIC, held by Kind House, Inc. in Sonoma County.
The line sells only in California, and its Find a Retailer page links to an online store finder. In September 2026, Sespe Creek in Ojai listed Raspberrita and Cinnamint 1-gram pre-rolls at $10.
For adults 21 and over.