ROCHESTER FARMS

About ROCHESTER FARMS

Rochester WA Tier 3 producer since 2017. Industrial automation borrowed from Dutch tulip growers.

Rochester Farms is a Tier 3 I-502 producer/processor located in Rochester, in the Olympia-area lowlands of southwestern Washington. The company has been distributing cannabis to Washington retailers since January 2017, and the operation was built specifically around a state-of-the-art automated cultivation facility — not a converted warehouse, but a ground-up engineering project.

The founders Marshall and Richard combined their backgrounds to design what is, by their account, one of the most efficient cannabis farms in the state. The automation pipeline draws on industrial irrigation systems borrowed from the Dutch tulip industry — applied here to cannabis at scale. The result is a facility producing about 500 pounds of cannabis flower per month, which is meaningful Tier 3 output, with the automation handling the bulk of the irrigation work and freeing the team to focus on cultivation discipline and finishing.

The catalog runs flower-first with concentrates and pre-rolls from the same in-house material. Distribution reaches across the WA retail network from Seattle metro through to smaller-market dispensaries. Customers who reach for Rochester Farms tend to be flower-first shoppers who appreciate that the operator took the time to engineer the facility properly before chasing scale, and budtenders mention the brand as a reliable mid-shelf option whose consistency comes from the automation pipeline as much as the cultivation team.