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The Emerald Cup

Name: The Emerald Cup
Start: 2026-08-15
End: 2026-08-16
Location: Sonoma County Fairgrounds

📍Santa Rosa, California, USA

📅Saturday, August 15, 2026-Sunday, August 16, 2026

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About This Event

The Emerald Cup is the Oscars of organic cannabis, the world's most prestigious celebration of sun-grown, sustainable cultivation, and the spiritual homecoming for California's legendary growing community. Since 2003, this competition has honored the craft cultivators of the Emerald Triangle—Humboldt, Mendocino, and Trinity counties—while expanding to celebrate excellence from across the state and beyond. The competition categories showcase the full spectrum of cannabis craftsmanship: outdoor flower, mixed-light flower, concentrates, edibles, topicals, and more. What distinguishes Emerald Cup judging is the emphasis on cultivation methods, terroir, and sustainability alongside potency and effects. Winners earn recognition as the best of the best in craft cannabis, a distinction that transforms brands and validates years of dedication to the plant. But the Emerald Cup is far more than a competition. The two-day festival at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds draws 30,000+ attendees for live music across multiple stages, educational workshops, vendor exhibits, and the kind of community gathering that defines Northern California cannabis culture. Farmers, patients, advocates, and enthusiasts come together in celebration of a plant and the people dedicated to growing it right. The Emerald Cup experience extends beyond the fairgrounds. Attendees explore Sonoma wine country, visit farms in the Emerald Triangle, and experience the culture that made California cannabis legendary. For anyone who believes cannabis is more than a commodity—that terroir matters, that cultivation is craft, that community is everything—the Emerald Cup is pilgrimage.