Data on California Small-Farm Market Access

We match menu listings to our small-farm brand classifications. Counts reflect the stores and collection dates shown above.

The expired percentage uses the inactive small-farm licenses listed in this report.

This is a current-status and capacity screen of nondeleted DCC cultivation licenses and microbusiness licenses with cultivation activity. The initial pool contains 2,313 cultivation records outside active status across 2,155 affiliated owner groups. A record is counted as potentially qualifying only when every cultivation license in its affiliated group is outside active status. This excludes inactive licenses that may have been converted or replaced by another active cultivation license in the same group. Records omitted from Higher Origins public listings and licenses marked nonpublic remain included in the aggregate totals. Higher Origins internal visibility classifications are omitted from the license-status table because they are not licensing-agency statuses. The status rows show the licensing statuses present after the active-affiliation exclusion, including limited operations where applicable, and the Nonpublic column shows the visibility subset within each row. Records are grouped by the stored legal name, falling back to the license name, together with the stored owners array. The 10,000-square-foot test sums the license-type cultivation-capacity proxy across all included active and inactive cultivation records in each affiliated group. Each license is counted once. The potentially qualifying operator count deduplicates affiliated groups, while operator counts in individual status rows may overlap and should not be added together. License tenure runs from the stored issue date to the stored status date, falling back to expiration date when the status date is absent, and its breakdown includes only the potentially qualifying licenses after the active-affiliation exclusion. The buckets use calendar intervals of 1, 2, and 5 years; a missing end date or an end date before issuance is reported as unknown or inconsistent. Capacity is a regulatory license-type proxy, not planted, harvested, or operational canopy. The screen does not establish that a license can be renewed or restored, that ownership and control are fully resolved, or that the operator satisfies good-standing, local-approval, compliance, farm-origin product, and other proposed endorsement requirements. Licensing statuses such as expired, surrendered, revoked, canceled, suspended, and limited operations have different meanings and do not all imply permanent closure. Data reflect the Higher Origins license snapshot as updated through November 6, 2026 and can be checked against the DCC license search.