Central Harvest | Small Batch Cultivation in Ayer, MA

By Central Ave

October 10, 2025

Cannabis 101

Central Harvest Small-Batch Cannabis Cultivation

At Central Harvest in Ayer, Massachusetts, we believe great cannabis starts with simplicity and care. Since 2015, our Director of Cultivation, Dave, and his dedicated team have focused on refining small-batch methods that bring out the best in every plant — freshness, flavor, and purity.

Our process begins with elite cannabis genetics sourced for their unique characteristics and quality. From there, we keep things simple, using only water, soil, and essential nutrients to let the plants naturally thrive. By relying on precise environmental controls like light, temperature, and humidity — rather than chemical corrections — we produce cleaner, safer, and more flavorful cannabis.

Rooted in our local Ayer community, Central Harvest is proud to uphold a standard of small-batch, handcrafted cultivation. Each harvest reflects our passion for consistency, quality, and the kind of cannabis you can truly swear by.

Watch the full story in our video below to see how simplicity and science come together at Central Harvest.

Full Transcript - Central Harvest | Small Batch Cultivation in Ayer, MA

Hey everybody my name is Dave, I’m the director of cultivation at Central Harvest.
 
I’ve been with the company since 2015 which is uh pretty much when we opened our door so since the very beginning.
 
So one of our biggest goals at Central Harvest is to grow cannabis as simply and as safely as possible and what that means to us is that we don’t want to treat our plants with anything other than the Bare Essentials; fertilizer and water.
 
since we opened in 2015 we’ve never treated our plants with any folar treatments any corrections really we we just use environmental controls proper temperature proper humidity we train the plants as best we can to avoid problems and we use kind of an arsenal of beneficial insects and the combination of those three things really has allowed us over the years to to keep it simple and provide a product that we think is as safe as we can get for our patients.
 
Timing is super important for us here at Central Harvest and what that means is we want to dry everything for the perfect amount of time cure everything for the perfect amount of time and then turn things around and get the flow into our customers hands when it’s really reached that ideal state.
 
Our team’s extremely proud of the batches that we’re turning out uh we dry everything really slowly over 7 to 10 days sometimes as much as 14 days.
 
As soon as our plants come out of the drying room they get broken down immediately and they go right into our curing containers.
 
Our team does a really nice job day by day to monitor each batch usually it takes us about 3 to 4 weeks to wrap up the curing process sometimes a little bit longer but we don’t move it to testing until it really reaches that ideal state.
 
Once each batch reaches that freshness State we send it to the lab and as soon as I get those results back in my hands we turn around and we package the flower as quickly as possible.
 
The freshness in our flower is something you really should be able to taste the difference you should be able to smell the difference as soon as you open up that jar or bag or whatever

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