Woman-Owned Brands in Washington State Cannabis
by the Hashtag Marketing Team:
Galentine’s Day is nearly here, and we are ready to celebrate the women in our lives! Please get to know these companies and the women behind them better — each company listed is woman owned, has stayed in business for several years, and partners with Hashtag to deliver their excellent products to you through our stores.
Constellation Cannabis
Founded in 2018, female owned and family run- Constellation Cannabis represents a collection of industry stars that came together to form a new purpose and meaning — to deliver cannabis that reflects quality in all aspects. They strive to create unique products that are influenced by the standard set in the medical era.
With female leadership, they are able to approach challenges and opportunities with a new perspective. From packaging to healthcare, they set new industry standards. Being female owned and family managed is a point of pride for the Constellation team. This fact allows them to stay close to the market and their customers, take care of their employees, and grow at a pace that allows them to maintain their standards. Constellation’s farm is operated by members of our family and people that have become family.
“We take care of each other and that allows us to take care of our customers.”
Competing in an established market, Constellation’s solventless hash lab also sets them apart. The dedication to that craft is evident in their care for how they grow and process their ice water hash.
“We share a simple vision: to be the preferred choice for cannabis connoisseurs. From our flower to our solventless hash oil and everything in between, expect quality.”
Craft Elixirs
Jamie Hoffman.
Chicago native Jamie Hoffman runs Craft Elixirs, a small-batch, cannabis-infused edible company in Seattle, Washington that specializes in simple syrups, oils, and confections made with locally sourced high-quality ingredients. Jamie finds her ingredients for Craft’s operations through a network of local cannabis and fruit grower farms. She’s partnered with Washington growers such as Puffin Farm, Doc & Yeti Urban Farms, and Sidhu’s Blueberry Farms to help deliver on one of her core tenets: to produce the best products using superior ingredients sourced locally.
Jamie’s partnerships and commitment to quality ingredients have paid off by helping Craft Elixirs take home the Dope Cup two years in a row with their fruit chews called Pioneer Squares, a self-described fruit-nom. The Pioneer Square is a gem of semi-transparent candy that houses a sugary piece of fruit in every nom.
Craft Elixirs offers delicious cannabis confections with their mouth-watering Pioneer Squares, in award-winning flavors such as: Black & Blueberry, Pink Lemonade, and Pineapple Crush.
Fairwinds
Sharing passions for healthy living, nutrition and natural medicine, Fairwinds founders James and Wendy Hull ventured into the Cannabis space with great excitement and passion for the support they knew they could provide to countless people. Enlisting a board of world-class formulators and medical advisors, Fairwinds products are designed by starting with traditional theory and ancient holistic concepts. The Fairwinds team is able to provide nutraceutical wellness products that stretch beyond the benefits that cannabis alone can provide. The company then saw fit to enlist an industry-leading team of MD’s for product review and consultation to ensure each formula provided safe and effective results for a broad range of patients.
As this evolving market began to move even further towards a recreational focus, founders James and Wendy saw the lapse in care for the medical patients who had fought so hard for legal access to cannabis. Driven by a passion to help others and the market’s need for a quality medical cannabis provider, Fairwinds chose to pave the way for clean and effective, patient-worthy products. Fairwinds’ products are all certified by the Washington State Department of Health as meeting the most stringent criteria of safety and purity.
Falcanna
Bethany Rondeaux and her falcon.
Oklahoma native Bethany Rondeaux and her husband Justin, an Olympic Peninsula native, are proud co-owners of Falcanna. This award winning cannabis brand is known for growing high quality, potent cannabis, with roots that started during the early days of medical cannabis here in Washington state. They package their products in 100% certified biodegradable packaging, and Falcanna is Clean Green Certified!
What stands out most about Falcanna? Not only is Bethany a master grower, but both she and Justin are also Master Falconers! Tucked within the great pines of the Olympic Peninsula, Falcanna is both a cannabis grow as well as a falcon breeding & rehabilitation center. They plan to continue expanding their amazing, state-of-the-art rehabilitation center for birds of prey: “Over the last several years, Falcanna has become a staple on retail shelves across Washington state. The amazing support received from customers and retailers alike has helped fulfill the long-held dream of rehabilitating and breeding falcons.”
Heylo
Lo Friesen.
Heylo Cannabis is a 100% women owned business based in Seattle. Lo Friesen, the founder and CEO, is an environmental chemist with a background in gastroenterology. Lo focused Heylo on health and wellness in relation to cannabis use. She has consulted with some of the world’s leading extraction companies and scientists, so you can feel safe consuming Heylo products. Heylo offers rare and cutting edge cannabinoids, such as CBG, in their products to help people achieve what they want from their cannabis use.
Heylo Cannabis works closely with Pax vaporizers to offer the most customized vaping experience possible. Customizing the heat of your vape battery to match your Heylo vape is key to getting the most out of Heylo’s unique blends and strains.
Heylo collaborates with local Seattle artists like SassyBlack--they even designed an oil blend to match SassyBlack’s Ancient Mahogany Gold album--and Perry Porter, who provided visual art and a Spotify playlist for Heylo’s Volume 3 vape. Heylo Cannabis sets the standard of what it means to promote healthy and beneficial cannabis use and simultaneously support your local community.
Puffin Farm
Dr. Jade Stefano.
At Puffin Farm, sunshine is what makes their buds absolutely divine! Found along the Yakima River, the founders of Puffin Farm are a group of lifelong cannabis connoisseurs, medical cannabis patients, and care providers. Puffin Farm is a family owned and operated business: Ben and Jade are the married couple behind the day to day operations of the farm, while Jade’s sister and uncle work from the city at Seattle Glass Blowing Studio.
Jade Stefano is co-founder and CEO of Puffin Farm. She earned her bachelor's degree at Reed College in Portland, OR, where she studied Biology. In 2016 she earned a doctorate in naturopathic medicine from Bastyr University. She loves to work with herbs and foods, turning her passion into growing high quality cannabis: “The cultivation of high-grade phytoconstituent rich cannabis and concentrates and the ability to bring these products to the greater community represents the ultimate manifestation of her calling to medicine.”
Doctor Jade and her family believe in producing, processing, and curating only the most aromatic and clean cannabis products for market, as mother nature intended: sungrown, minimally processed, using only organic and sustainable methods. Puffin Farm is another awesome Clean Green Certified brand that Hashtag is proud to keep stocked on our shelves.