Raw Garden

Raw Garden

Industry	Cannabis
Founded	2015, Santa Barbara County, California
Products	Vapor Pens, Pre-Rolls, Flowers, Edibles, and Concentrates
Areas served	California, Nevada, and Oregon
Website	rawgarden.farm

Raw Garden is a vertically integrated cannabis company established in 2015 in California’s Santa Barbara County. Clean Green Certification characterises the brand, the desire to grow and extract only single-source cannabis products, and its Refined Live Resin technology. Raw Garden manufactures vape cartridges, concentrates, and infused pre-roll joints without any additives, artificial flavors, or terpenes that are not of cannabis origin.

Overview

Raw Garden is among the pioneers in the cannabis business, having a commitment to the belief of Pure to the Core by producing premium, natural cannabis products. The brand is the best-selling provider of cannabis extracts in California and operates under Central Coast Agriculture, with a focus on single-source production and extraction of cannabis without any additives, fillers, or artificial flavorings. Raw Garden cannabis products are all produced using fresh-frozen, sun-grown flower cultivated in the soils of the Santa Ynez Valley, which preserves the complete range of terpenes, cannabinoids, as well as aromas of the plant.

The mission of the company is to transform clean cannabis by having full control of all the processes, starting with breeding their own seeds, through strict third-party laboratory tests. This integration enables Raw Garden to have unmatched quality control, resulting in all-time, strong, and tasty products. The most important one is sustainability, transparency, and innovation; Raw Garden is Clean Green and ECCO certified, which is above the normal practices in the industry to test organic-like farming practices using non-pesticides. Their integrated pest management (IPM) system consists of cultural, mechanical, biological, and organic strategies of protecting crops more naturally.

The Raw Garden is unique due to its unique selling points that make it different in the competitive Raw Garden cannabis market. They are 100% cannabis-based products that are strictly tested (including heavy metals) and developed to produce the best user experience by using terpene-safe devices such as CCELL technology.

History

Raw Garden started in the year 2015 in a fertile area of Santa Barbara County, which has earned fame as an agricultural center in the world because of its perfect climate and soil. The brand was a passion project of a group of multi-generational farmers, PhD scientists, and cannabis lovers. However, the team was originally independent and, before its formal formation, the team independently bred seeds, grew plants, and experimented with extractions, which were obsessed with purity in an industry full of additives and inconsistencies. This grassroots basis formed the foundation of Raw Garden’s commitment to the use of cannabis products, which are 100% and do not contain any artificial components.

One of the fundamental elements of the brand is that it is related to historical farming. One of their major operators, Khalid Al-Naser monitors operations in Central Coast Agriculture, basing it on the fifth-generation farming practices of California, which had been oriented on raisins, cattle, and grapes. The transfer of Al-Naser to cannabis was well-achieved as a specialist in sustainable agriculture, focusing on growing cannabis in the Santa Ynez Valley. Initially, Raw Garden developed new methods such as quick-cool harvests and sub-zero cryogenic hydrocarbon extraction, which preserve the terpenes and cannabinoids and reduce the amount of undesired fats and wax. These technologies were created internally and established new standards of flavor preservation and potency in the Raw Garden cannabis extracts.

The initial market expansion has been very fast, due to the legal environment in California, which has changed due to the legalization of recreational use in 2016. In 2018, Raw Garden was ranked the top-selling vape brand in the state and had extended its strain offering to more than 100 unique strains. The vertical integration strategy, in which it had control over the breeding, farming, extraction, and manufacturing process, provided quality in a situation where the market was saturated. Some of the milestones were the entry into the Clean Green Certification Program in 2015, which is the nearest equivalent of USDA organic in cannabis, and the ECCO certification of environmental sustainability. Radical transparency was the norm, and all third-party lab results were made available online, creating consumer confidence.

Further expansion and innovation were seen in the 2020s. Raw Garden cemented its status in 2021, and Al-Naser reported it as one of the largest brands in California. The brand has made a heavy investment in biotech, such as genomics and pest management, in order to optimize strain development. Another breakthrough of 2025 was the purchase of California Love, another clean cannabis grower, which increased the capacity of Raw Garden, but also corresponded to its mission of purity. This action encouraged the possibility of going big without oversight of quality, and now it farms hundreds of acres.

Raw Garden still heads the clean cannabis revolution of California today and still carries out research and development in THCa extracts and infused products. Though federal regulations prevent sales beyond California dispensaries, the brand has been rewarded with awards and a fanbase following its emphasis on single-source, farm-fresh Raw Garden cannabis. Issues such as competitive forces in the market and governmental regulations have been approached with a strong front, which has strengthened its position as a leader in high-potency, sustainable extracts. By 2025, Raw Garden will stick to the core ideals, which are to combine tradition and science to enhance the consumer experience.

Products and Services

Raw Garden has a variety of cannabis products, with the center being based on their core values of single-source purity and innovation. Their product lines are an immediate consequence of their vertically controlled system that starts with their own genetically engineered seed and ends with carefully designed consumer products. The company does not fill, add, or use artificial flavors in its products, making each of them 100% cannabis.

Vape Products

Raw Garden is also known due to its vape cartridges, which are praised as having been potent, flavorful, and pure. Their flagship of the vape line is their own Refined Live Resin.

Refined Live Resin Cartridges

Refined Live Resin is introduced in the vape format, meaning maximizing the usefulness as well as the taste of the product. Pollution of the waxes, fats, and tannins is eliminated through a proprietary refining process. This produces a smooth and stronger oil that is highly concentrated with THC, and it can test 80-95%. The procedure is elaborately structured to maintain the natural and strain-specific cannabis-originated terpenes, which provide a consequential and genuine taste profile. These cartridges have a 0.3g, 0.5g, and 1.0g capacity, and they can fit with every standard 510-threaded battery.

Live Sauce Cartridges

Raw Garden also provides Live Sauce Cartridges to its consumers who want to have a complete-spectrum experience, almost that of a dab. These cartridges are made with their own popular dabbable live resin, and therefore contain a higher level of terpenes than Refined Live Resin, making them wetter and more applesauce-like in consistency and a very flavorful vape.

All-In-One (AIO) Vapes

Raw Garden offers a variety of disposable and ready-to-use vape products for convenience. The Sprouttm All-in-One is a new product with terpene-safe plastic and a rechargeable USB-C port. It comes with either Live Sauce or Refined Live Resin oil. They also have a Ready-to-Use Pen with their Refined Live Resin and Live Sauce All-In-One device.

PAX Era Pods

Raw Garden collaborates with PAX Labs as an exclusive distributor of its Refined Live Resin in PAX Era Pods, another convenient and technologically sophisticated device for consuming the PAX Era system.

Concentrates

Their extensive selection of cannabis concentrates is a demonstration of the skill that Raw Garden has in the field of extraction. Their single-source and fresh-frozen sun-grown cannabis is converted into all concentrates to maintain the profile of cannabinoids and terpenes in the plant.

Live Resin

Live Resin by Raw Garden is taken out of recently harvested green material that was cryogenically frozen. This process preserves the terpenes that are normally lost in the process of drying and curing to produce a very aromatic and flavorful concentrate.

Live Sauce

Like Live Resin, Live Sauce is made of fresh-frozen cannabis. The first one is the texture; Live Sauce contains more terpenes, which makes it have a wetter and more viscous texture than applesauce. This makes it exceptionally flavorful and aromatic.

Live Rosin

Raw Garden also manufactures Live Rosin, a solventless product that is in high demand by connoisseurs. The process of extraction of the cannabis resin is done only with the help of ice, water, heat, and pressure to make this concentrate. This is a chemical-free extraction that leaves a pure extract that is true-to-the-plant and has all-natural flavors.

Live Badder

Live Badder is also a type of concentrate that is being sold by Raw Garden, and this has a batter-like consistency. It is made of fresh-frozen flower, like their other live products, to guarantee a full range of cannabinoids and terpenes.

Diamonds

Raw Garden has two varieties of crystalline concentrates of THC-A, which are the Refined Live Resin Diamonds and Crushed Diamonds. Diamonds are pure crystal THC-A and provide an extremely strong experience. They can either be dabbed themselves or in a flower. The micronized forms of these crystals are Crushed Diamonds, which they use as infused into their pre-rolls.

Infused Pre-Rolls

Infused Pre-Rolls are made using whole flower with live resin or diamonds to increase their potency.

• Infused Joints 3-Pack (0.3g each): Micro versions do not take long; strains such as Funk Fuel (hybrid, funky, and motivating).
• Crushed Diamond Infused Joints (1g): Enhanced with diamonds; one of them is Papa-herb infused joints to concentrate on wellness.

Market Metrics and Headset Data Analysis

According to Headset.io, by 2025, Raw Garden had annual sales of its products in the calendar year 2025 in state of California of approximately $85.7 million, with a good market share of all cannabis commodities sold, especially in the Vapor Pens category, which ranked #2 in California.

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FAQs

What is Refined Live Resin?

Refined Live Resin is a cannabis oil produced by Raw Garden through an innovative process, which involves the use of live resin followed by the removal of impurities such as waxes, fats, and tannins. This leads to a stronger and tastier vape cartridge version of oil.

Are Raw Garden products lab-tested?

Yes, all Raw Garden products are thoroughly lab-tested (using a third-party laboratory) to verify pesticides, leftover solvents, heavy metals, and microbial contaminants to guarantee safety, purity, and potency.

What is the difference between Live Resin and Live Sauce?

They are both obtained using fresh-frozen cannabis, although they have different textures and consistencies, because of the different contents of terpene: Live Resin is drier and more sugar-like, whereas Live Sauce is wetter with a higher content of aromatic compounds, like applesauce.

Does Raw Garden use any additives or fillers?

No, Raw Garden products are pure cannabis that does not have any additives, fillers, or artificial flavors.

How should I store my Raw Garden vape cartridge?

The vape cartridges should be stored in an upright position in a cool, dry place that does not expose them to direct sunlight to avoid leakage and ensure the quality of the oil.