At a glance
Ceres Garden is a Washington cannabis producer and processor founded in 2013. The company grows its own cannabis in Whatcom County and uses that material for a broad catalog of edibles, tinctures, topicals, concentrates, capsules and flower. Its strongest distinction is vertical integration: cultivation, extraction and finished-product work are presented as one controlled supply chain rather than unrelated white-label inputs.
Origins in Washington’s I-502 market
Ceres began in 2013, during the opening years of Washington’s regulated adult-use system. Retail and trade sources describe an early farm in Everson and extraction operations in Granite Falls; newer company and industry material places its vertically integrated production near the Nooksack River in Deming/Bellingham-area Whatcom County. Those references describe stages in a Washington operation, not separate Ceres brands.
Laurent Bentitou appears in public reporting as an owner of Ceres Garden and as the principal applicant for proposed San Juan County cultivation sites in 2019.
Estate-grown supply chain
Ceres says its internal cultivation team grows the flower used in its finished products. Industry profiles describe both indoor and outdoor cultivation and a facility on land farmed for more than a century. The company markets its inputs as pesticide-free and emphasizes control from cultivation through processing.
“Pesticide-free” here is a company and trade-partner description, not a permanent guarantee for every lot.
Products
Dragon Balm is the best-known topical family; other historical product descriptions include Dragon Gold oil, concentrates, vapor products and flower.
Dragon Balm and market performance
Cultivera’s 2025 vendor profile says Dragon Balm had ranked as the number-one topical in its Washington B2B marketplace since that reporting began. The same source says Ceres Assorted Fruit Chews consistently appeared among its top five edible products from the start of its reports in 2022. Those are platform-specific sales rankings, not statewide regulatory rankings or independent clinical findings.
Ceres also developed a THC-free version of its topical concept through sister company Americanna Wellness. That related product should not be confused with Washington-licensed THC inventory.
Stores and distribution
Ceres does not operate the consumer dispensaries named in retailer menus. It sells through licensed Washington retailers. A 2025 Cultivera profile quoted the company as available in more than 500 stores statewide, but stock is not uniform and the figure is a company-supplied snapshot. Current inventory should be checked with a licensed retailer rather than inferred from an old “where to buy” page.
Not the other Ceres companies
Ceres Garden is not Ceres Cannabis, the Vermont retailer; Ceres Greenhouse Solutions, the commercial greenhouse company; or Ceres Acquisition Corp., the former cannabis-focused SPAC. Similar names have produced bad cross-links elsewhere, so ownership, locations and financial history from those businesses do not belong here.