Created in 2004 to raise funds for charity and recognize talented, local, up-and-coming musical acts, The 2010 Muddy River Jam Festival was a 2-day festival where over 80 bands and electronic acts performed. Beyond just music, the event creates a family-like community by encouraging overnight camping onsite at the Salem County Fairgrounds outside of [...]

For many summers, General Hydroponics has been a major sponsor of the world’s largest reggae festival, in Humboldt, California. In the beginning, it was known as Reggae on the River, and in recent years was called Reggae Rising. The festival was the highlight of our events calendar. “Reggae” was the perfect party. Endless music and [...]

General Hydroponics is a sponsor at Reggae Rising, one of the best Reggae concerts in the world at Dimmick Ranch in Northern California.  I was invited to hang out with the GH crew as our beautiful blogmistress, Tigerlilly, wasn’t able attend.  The GH booth and music at the festival was amazing this year.

Gen Hydro was [...]

Woah, tired. Everyone on our team here at GH has had back to back long weekends. But Red-Icculus will join us all tomorrow with some amazing new content. Ragga Rising 2009 = Total Success. Check this shot that Red-Icculus took of Ishe Dube killing it on the main stage.

I saved the best festival wrap-up for last. SolFest is a one of a kind event in Nor Cal, featuring music and entertainment alongside hands-on learning.

The whole thing goes down in Hopland, at the Real Goods Solar Living Institute. It is an amazing campus, dedicated to a fully sustainable lifestyle. The premise of the event [...]

Continuing with the weekly festival wrap-up, its Earthdance. This is a major worldwide festival. Not only is there a show in Laytonville here in NorCal, but there are events in 300 locations in 60 countries. The focus of the event is WORLD PEACE! The festival includes not only the standards, like camping, music and awesome [...]

Summertime and the Livin’s Easy. In August the GH crew headed into the heart of NorCal for the world’s largest reggae festival and I tagged along and captured the whole experience. Reggae Rising is an amazing weekend, and General Hydroponics has generously sponsored the event for 4 years now. We put up a huge [...]