San Francisco’s secret garden — Inside Butterbrand

San Francisco’s boutique, high-quality cannabis cultivators run year-round in specialized warehouses scattered around town. In the following photo essay, we go inside Butterbrand, which produces top-shelf flower and extracts for the medical market, and has its eye trained on recreational sales in 2018. Butterbrand employs limited automation in the processing of its cannabis, and even though the indoor farm is considered “large-scale” for cannabis — it’s still very hand-crafted and artisanal by traditional agricultural standards. Let’s head inside.

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GreenState founder David Downs is an award-winning freelance journalist and best-selling author based in San Francisco, with appearances in WIRED, Rolling Stone, The Onion, New York Times, and Scientific American. He is a 2025 Mendo Cup Judge.


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