Country Grown / Harvest Care Medical — WV-Based Vertical

Last verified: May 2026

The Bridgeport, WV Headquarters

Harvest Care Medical / Country Grown Cannabis is headquartered in Bridgeport, West Virginia (Harrison County, north-central WV, just east of Clarksburg on I-79). Bridgeport is a small Mountain State city (~8,500 population) anchored by United Hospital Center and a long-standing oil-and-gas service economy. The Country Grown headquarters location signals the operator’s WV-rooted identity — in contrast to Tallahassee-based Trulieve, Chicago-based Verano, Washington-D.C.-based Holistic, and the other out-of-state MSOs that compete in the West Virginia market.

The Kearneysville Cultivation

Harvest Care’s grower license is one of the original 10 issued by the West Virginia Office of Medical Cannabis on October 2, 2020. The cultivation facility is located in Kearneysville, Jefferson County — in the Eastern Panhandle, between Martinsburg and Charles Town. Jefferson County is the easternmost county in West Virginia, less than an hour from Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. Placing the cultivation in the Eastern Panhandle gives Harvest Care logistical advantages for serving the same region’s dispensaries and a different industrial-zone cost basis than the Charleston / Beckley clusters. See WV growers / processors page.

The Country Grown Retail Brand

Country Grown Cannabis is the retail brand under which Harvest Care operates dispensaries across West Virginia. The branding emphasizes the WV-based cultivation and the rural / Mountain State identity — positioning the brand against the more corporate-feeling MSO retail experiences (Trulieve’s Florida-style stores, Verano’s Zen Leaf branding). Country Grown locations as of mid-2025 included approximately nine dispensaries spanning the Eastern Panhandle, north-central, and (most recently) the Southern Coalfields:

• Country Grown Beckley — Raleigh County (opened 2025; the operator’s first Southern Coalfields location)
• Country Grown Inwood — Berkeley County, Eastern Panhandle (opened 2025)
• Country Grown Charles Town — Jefferson County (Eastern Panhandle)
• Additional Country Grown locations across central and Eastern WV

The 2025 Beckley and Inwood openings represented expansion into both the Southern Coalfields (where dispensary access has historically been thinnest) and into the Eastern Panhandle (where cross-border Maryland adult-use is most disruptive to WV-program economics). See Beckley / Bluefield page.

The November 2025 Mountain State Spotlight Comment

Harvest Care is one of the most publicly outspoken West Virginia operators on the cross-border-flow problem. In November 2025, a Harvest Care / Country Grown executive told Mountain State Spotlight: "If they can go across the border and obtain a wider selection of products, why would they pay to get their medical cannabis card in West Virginia?" The quote captured the strategic concern of every Eastern Panhandle WV operator: Maryland’s Question 4 (rec since July 1, 2023) puts adult-use stores in Hagerstown 25 minutes from Inwood / Martinsburg / Berkeley Springs. With full edibles, smokable flower, and concentrate menus — product forms WV does not allow — Maryland adult-use erodes the economic case for WV registration in the Panhandle.

The political implication is the case for HB 5260 (edibles), which Harvest Care and other WV-based operators broadly support. Adding edibles to the WV menu would close part of the product-form gap with Maryland and Ohio, retaining more patient-revenue inside the Mountain State. See Eastern Panhandle Maryland page; see HB 5260 page.

Vertical Integration — Grower + Processor + Dispensaries

Under SB 1037 (2019), West Virginia permits vertical integration: a single operator may hold grower, processor, and dispensary licenses simultaneously. Harvest Care is one of the largest WV-based vertical stacks:

• Grower license — Kearneysville cultivation
• Processor license — producing oils, tinctures, vape cartridges, topicals, transdermal patches
• Dispensary licenses — ~9 Country Grown retail locations across WV

The vertical model gives Harvest Care end-to-end control of the WV supply chain: cultivation in Jefferson County, processing into permitted product forms, and retail in counties from the Eastern Panhandle to the Southern Coalfields. METRC seed-to-sale tracking ties every step. The vertical structure differs from Trulieve’s (Tallahassee HQ, Huntington 100,000-sq-ft cultivation) primarily in geographic origin: Trulieve is a Florida company that built WV operations; Harvest Care is a WV company that scaled inside the state. See Trulieve first sale page.

The 2025 Beckley Expansion — Southern Coalfields

Country Grown’s 2025 Beckley opening is significant for the Southern Coalfields region. Raleigh County (Beckley, ~16,000) sits at the southern terminus of the West Virginia Turnpike (I-77) before the road continues to Princeton and Bluefield, near the Virginia line. The Southern Coalfields have been hit hardest by both the opioid epidemic and the cannabis program’s slow rural rollout — for the first three years post-launch, McDowell, Mingo, Logan, Boone, and Wyoming Counties had minimal in-county dispensary footprints. Country Grown Beckley extends WV-based operator coverage south. The same Raleigh County hosts Holistic WV Farms I and Verano WV cultivation operations in the town of Beaver — a small concentration of WV cannabis production in the Beckley area.

The 2025 Inwood Expansion — Eastern Panhandle

Country Grown Inwood (Berkeley County, Eastern Panhandle) is one of two 2025 expansions. Inwood sits along I-81 just south of Martinsburg, in the heart of the Berkeley County population that has surged past 130,000 residents (West Virginia’s second-most-populous county). Country Grown Inwood directly competes with Maryland-purchased adult-use cannabis from Hagerstown 25 minutes north. The expansion is a calculated bet that even with Maryland legalization, sufficient in-state patient demand exists for a Berkeley County dispensary — particularly among patients who prefer the medical-program structure (qualifying-condition-based, certified-physician relationship, METRC-tracked supply) over the more retail-style Maryland adult-use experience.

Harvest Care’s Position on Reform

Harvest Care’s public posture aligns broadly with the WV NORML, Compassion Coalition, and Marijuana Policy Project reform agenda on:

• Edibles authorization (HB 5260 / SB 892) — closes product-form gap with neighboring states
• Patient retention — against the cross-border drag
• OUD as qualifying condition — expansion of the patient-eligible population

Like other WV-based operators, Harvest Care has not been publicly supportive of HB 5259 (home cultivation), which would compete with dispensary supply. The operator interest aligns with patient and reform-coalition interests on edibles and on the broader pro-WV-program reform agenda but diverges on home grow. See HB 5259 home grow page.

The WV-Based Operator Argument

Harvest Care’s WV-based identity is increasingly part of its public framing. As West Virginia’s out-of-state MSOs (Trulieve, Verano, Holistic, Curaleaf, Cannabist) all manage portfolios across multiple states, the WV-based operator tier — Harvest Care, Mountaineer Holding, Mountaineer Integrated Care, The Healing Center, New Leaf, Tariff Labs — has a stronger economic interest in retaining patient revenue inside the Mountain State and in expanding the WV program. The argument has political traction: WV-based operators employ Mountain State residents, pay WV taxes, and reinvest revenue in WV cultivation and retail. See WV-based operators page.