After building one of California’s best-known extraction brands, co-founded by New York Natives, Jetty Extracts is putting down serious roots back home — opening a state-of-the-art Albany facility built around quality, New York-grown weed and a mission that has always extended beyond the dispensary shelf.
In the Warehouse District in Albany, inside a once-vacant industrial building, Jetty Extracts has built its new home in New York.
The new manufacturing facility gives the California-born cannabis brand something it has wanted since entering the state: direct control over how its products are made. It also brings more than 25 jobs to Albany and plants Jetty near the geographic center of a market that stretches from New York City and Long Island to Buffalo — not far from where the company’s founders grew up.
Inside, the operation is part cannabis lab, part cold-storage facility, part sophisticated version of the hash rooms that helped build West Coast weed culture.
“So we like to say we go on the journey of the weed,” the Jetty team explains as a group begins walking through the facility.
That journey begins with fresh-frozen cannabis from New York farms.
The flower is cut down and frozen immediately after harvest, then transported into cold storage in Albany. From there, it moves through Jetty’s solventless operation: washing, freezing, freeze-drying, pressing and eventually post-processing into the company’s vape products.
The obsession throughout is temperature. The colder the plant stays, the better Jetty can preserve the terpenes responsible for much of its original aroma and flavor.
The washroom makes the evolution of cannabis manufacturing especially visible. Dedicated washing machines, filtration systems, ice equipment and chilled water now handle batches of fresh-frozen flower. But the process traces directly back to decidedly less glamorous roots.
Devon Ferrucci recalls making hash in Humboldt County in 2001 by putting weed into paint-straining bags inside an Igloo cooler, packing it with ice and working it with a plunger. Eventually came a brand-new household washing machine.
“Holy shit, we're making hash in a washing machine.”
Albany is what happens when that same knowledge gets twenty-plus years of refinement, engineering and legal infrastructure behind it.
The wet hash now moves into freeze dryers designed to remove moisture while limiting heat exposure, then into presses that transform the pale powder into rosin. Some post-processing happens behind closed doors — Jetty restricts cameras around proprietary R&D — before the oil reaches filling and packaging.
More importantly, it is happening under Jetty’s roof.
When the company initially entered New York, it worked with outside manufacturers and bought some of its rosin on the wholesale market. The arrangement got Jetty onto shelves, but it also meant accepting variations in material, production and scheduling.
“Now, we really are in full control of everything,” Devon explains during the tour.
For a brand built around purity and flavor, that is the real significance of Albany.
From Buffalo to California — and Back
But opening a New York factory means something different for Jetty than it would for another California brand simply expanding east.
Jetty’s story started here.
Founders and brothers Nate and Rob Ferguson grew up around Buffalo, surrounded by farmland and an early relationship with the plant long before New York had licensed dispensaries or regulated processors. Cannabis in their youth meant underground networks, legendary New York Sour Diesel and a culture that existed almost completely outside the law. (Honeysuckle Magazine)
They eventually went west, first spending time in Utah before landing in California, where they became involved in the state’s medical cannabis movement. By 2008, they were operating retail and cultivation businesses. When federal pressure disrupted that chapter, the brothers moved deeper into extraction and experimentation. Jetty ultimately launched in 2013 with an idea that seems obvious now but was much more radical in the early vape era: make cleaner oil and stop cutting it with questionable additives. (Honeysuckle Magazine)
California became Jetty’s laboratory.
The company refined extraction methods, built its Oakland operation and became particularly associated with high-end vapes, concentrates and solventless products. Jetty describes its solventless process simply: ice, water and pressure, without chemical solvents. (Jetty Extracts)
Years later, New York legalization presented an unusual opportunity. Jetty could take everything it had learned in California and bring it back to the state where the founders’ relationship with cannabis began.
The symbolism has not been lost on them.
In an earlier interview with Honeysuckle, the brothers talked about licensed dispensaries now operating practically on top of places where they once hung out in Buffalo.
“So it’s pretty full circle how far things have come.” (Honeysuckle Magazine)
Albany makes that homecoming tangible.
This is no longer simply a California company shipping its identity into another state through licensing and outsourced manufacturing. Jetty is building here, hiring here, buying from New York cultivators and making products within the state’s own supply chain.
It also gives the company a chance to bring more of its California lineup east. New York production currently includes infused pre-rolls and solventless vapes, while the Albany team continues building enough rosin capacity to expand further. The company is also eyeing live resin production as another portion of the lab comes online.
At the same time, Jetty has resisted the idea that premium cannabis needs to become inaccessible cannabis.
While explaining why the company does not devote the entire operation to tiny quantities of ultra-premium first-wash hash, the Devon puts it plainly:
“We're trying to bring the flavors to the masses.”
That approach — high-quality weed without turning it into an artifact behind glass — connects directly to another part of Jetty’s history.
The Shelter Project Comes Home Too
A year after Jetty was founded, the company launched the Shelter Project, its compassionate cannabis program for people living with cancer who are also experiencing financial hardship.
It has now been running since 2014.
The program provides Jetty products free or nearly free through participating dispensaries. According to the company, more than $1.2 million in cannabis products has been donated and more than 1,320 people have been supported through their cancer journeys. Shelter currently operates in California, Colorado and New York. (Jetty Extracts)
In New York, patients can currently access Shelter Project donations through Happy Days on Long Island and, appropriately, Buffalo Dreams in Buffalo. Eligible participants can receive up to eight grams of Jetty products every other month through participating locations. (Jetty Extracts)
The program grew out of the same medical cannabis culture that shaped Jetty itself. Before recreational legalization, people were already showing up looking for cannabis for pain, anxiety and serious illness. Nate and Rob have said that experience helped shape their insistence that medical patients should receive the same quality product as anyone else.
As they told Honeysuckle previously:
“It’s the same product that I would give to my mother, my aunt, my cousin that’s sick. The same product that we’d want to give to any recreational user as well.” (Honeysuckle Magazine)
That idea makes the new Albany facility feel less like the end of Jetty’s trip east than the completion of a circle.
The brothers left New York when cannabis was underground, took what they knew west, learned to make better products in California and built a company around them.
Jetty’s story started in New York, traveled west, and now — with its own facility, its own production and the Shelter Project alongside it — has come full circle.
Only this time, Jetty isn’t just coming home. It’s building one.
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