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Cannabis Industry Is Growing on the South Fork: Several Retail Shops Set To Open in 2025

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Tom Ayers and Big Sky Ranch Hamptons, the Bridgehampton property known to many simply as Nova's Ark, are one of just two cannabis cultivation operations currently operating in Southampton Town. Big Sky Ranch grows and produces a variety of cannabis products marketed under the brand name The Ladies, for the property's owners, Tundra Wolf and Luna Shanaman. MICHAEL WRIGHT

Tom Ayers and Big Sky Ranch Hamptons, the Bridgehampton property known to many simply as Nova's Ark, are one of just two cannabis cultivation operations currently operating in Southampton Town. Big Sky Ranch grows and produces a variety of cannabis products marketed under the brand name The Ladies, for the property's owners, Tundra Wolf and Luna Shanaman. MICHAEL WRIGHT

The property at 2183 Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton, just west of Citarella, has been secured by L Train Agency LLC, which has a pending application for a cannabis retail sales license.

The property at 2183 Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton, just west of Citarella, has been secured by L Train Agency LLC, which has a pending application for a cannabis retail sales license.

Ashley Capraro has one of just four active cannabis sales licenses issued by the New York State Office of Cannabis Management to business owners seeking to open retail shops in Southampton Town. She and her husband Al have purchased the building at 978 Montauk Highway in Water Mill last year and have applied to the town Planning Board for a special permit to allow a retail cannabis store. MICHAEL WRIGHT

Ashley Capraro has one of just four active cannabis sales licenses issued by the New York State Office of Cannabis Management to business owners seeking to open retail shops in Southampton Town. She and her husband Al have purchased the building at 978 Montauk Highway in Water Mill last year and have applied to the town Planning Board for a special permit to allow a retail cannabis store. MICHAEL WRIGHT

hley Capraro has one of just four active cannabis sales licenses issued by the New York State Office of Cannabis Management to business owners seeking to open retail shops in Southampton Town. She and her husband Al have purchased the building at 978 Montauk Highway in Water Mill last year and have applied to the town Planning Board for a special permit to allow a retail cannabis store. MICHAEL WRIGHT

hley Capraro has one of just four active cannabis sales licenses issued by the New York State Office of Cannabis Management to business owners seeking to open retail shops in Southampton Town. She and her husband Al have purchased the building at 978 Montauk Highway in Water Mill last year and have applied to the town Planning Board for a special permit to allow a retail cannabis store. MICHAEL WRIGHT

hley Capraro has one of just four active cannabis sales licenses issued by the New York State Office of Cannabis Management to business owners seeking to open retail shops in Southampton Town. She and her husband Al have purchased the building at 978 Montauk Highway in Water Mill last year and have applied to the town Planning Board for a special permit to allow a retail cannabis store. MICHAEL WRIGHT

hley Capraro has one of just four active cannabis sales licenses issued by the New York State Office of Cannabis Management to business owners seeking to open retail shops in Southampton Town. She and her husband Al have purchased the building at 978 Montauk Highway in Water Mill last year and have applied to the town Planning Board for a special permit to allow a retail cannabis store. MICHAEL WRIGHT

Greg Konnor, owner of the Carvel building on Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton, was issued his retail cannabis license by the OCM last week and expects to be able to open a retail cannabis store there by next summer. MICHAEL WRIGHT

Greg Konnor, owner of the Carvel building on Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton, was issued his retail cannabis license by the OCM last week and expects to be able to open a retail cannabis store there by next summer. MICHAEL WRIGHT

Greg Konnor, owner of the Carvel building on Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton, was issued his retail cannabis license by the OCM last week and expects to be able to open a retail cannabis store there by next summer. MICHAEL WRIGHT

Greg Konnor, owner of the Carvel building on Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton, was issued his retail cannabis license by the OCM last week and expects to be able to open a retail cannabis store there by next summer. MICHAEL WRIGHT

Big Sky Ranch grows and produces a variety of cannabis products marketed under the brand name The Ladies, for the property's owners, Tundra Wolf and Luna Shanaman. MICHAEL WRIGHT

Big Sky Ranch grows and produces a variety of cannabis products marketed under the brand name The Ladies, for the property's owners, Tundra Wolf and Luna Shanaman. MICHAEL WRIGHT

New York State Office of Cannabis Management has issued a

New York State Office of Cannabis Management has issued a "microbusiness" license to Sagg Main Farms LLC, which is registered at 50 Sagg Main Street, the property just to the south of Loaves & Fishes. The microbusiness license allows for an operator to grow a limited amount marijuana plants, produce their own cannabis products and sell them at an on-site retail shop. MICHAEL WRIGHT

Cannabis products from OMO Labs in Bridgehampton.

Cannabis products from OMO Labs in Bridgehampton.

Cannabis Businesses on the South Fork

Cannabis Businesses on the South Fork

authorMichael Wright on Dec 4, 2024
The East End’s first retail cannabis store not on the Shinnecock Territory, called Beleaf, opened last week in Calverton. A second, much larger outlet, Strain Stars, the size of a... more

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