It was 2008, and Tyler Kearns was watching the financial infrastructure of the world crumble, leaving half the people he knew unemployed and desperate. Ty was supposed to be headed to college. He was supposed to be getting a degree in green energy management, a field that checked all his interests sustainability, land management, new technologies . . . But the news got worse every day, and he didn't want to rack up a mountain of student debt only to graduate into the worst job market this nation had seen since the Great Depression. p He never wanted to be a grower. That wasn't the plan. p But Ty Kearns grew up in Humboldt County, California. Like any native of the mountainous region, he was a student of Humboldt's unique history, from the first hippie driving up from San Francisco to grow his own reefer, to the green rush in the 2000s that drew migrant pickers from all over the world and employed half of the stay-at-home moms in the county. p His aunt owned land in the mountains and so