Document preparation, cannabis compliance, litigation support, and administrative services designed for Mendocino growers navigating the transition from legacy to legal.
Applications, renewals, filings, and every piece of paper between you and your license. Done right, on time.
Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) requirements, Metrc (Marijuana Enforcement Tracking Reporting Compliance) integration, track-and-trace, testing protocols. We keep you current so you stay legal.
Mendocino County ordinances, CEQA reviews, water board permits, environmental standards. Both layers, handled together.
Cannabis property due diligence, zoning verification, water rights, development support for growers expanding operations.
Document organization, evidence management, and administrative preparation for legal proceedings and disputes.
Deadline tracking, filing calendars, renewal alerts, and day-to-day administrative support. You farm, we handle the rest.
January 1, 2026 ended provisional licensing. Cultivators who didn't convert to annual status must now reapply from scratch with full CEQA compliance and full fees.
Wholesale prices dropped below production costs. Compliance expenses keep rising. The farmers who can least afford help are the ones who need it most.
Existing compliance firms are either too expensive, too narrow, or too focused on corporate operators. Nobody is offering the full stack of services small growers actually need, at prices they can afford.
I've spent several years working across cannabis-adjacent business, compliance support, and agricultural operations in California. Mendocino County specifically — Ukiah, Boonville, Willits — isn't an abstraction to me. I built relationships there through on-the-ground work, not from a desk in another city.
That includes direct exposure to pre-permit cannabis development, land preparation, and the regulatory barriers that stopped otherwise viable farms cold. I watched the provisional licensing system get built in real time, and I watched growers who'd been farming this land for decades get pushed into a compliance structure that was never designed for them. The bureaucracy wasn't built around small operators — it was built around the legal machinery of larger commercial interests.
I've seen what a delayed permit costs. I've seen what the wrong document submitted to the wrong agency costs. I've seen deals collapse because a partner didn't understand water rights, and licenses lapse because a renewal calendar slipped. That's not theoretical risk — it's what actually happens, and I know where the traps are.
This work matters to me because it's tied to land, livelihood, and community survival. The goal isn't to run your operation through a compliance process and bill by the hour — it's to keep you legal, keep you farming, and not make things worse in the process.
The Mendocino EIR was certified October 2024. Hundreds of growers are now eligible to upgrade — but nobody hands you the roadmap. CEQA docs, Metrc setup, county tax, environmental permits, deadlines. One checklist.
Mendocino Underground Ag exists because legacy farmers deserve a shot at the legal market without losing everything they built getting there.