Bring on the hot sun and carefree fun; the first full calendar day of Summer 2025 is the date Moon Flower Hemp has chosen to launch its first-ever satellite store into orbit.

The woman-owned, seed-to-sale craft cannabis store has announced it plans to open a satellite location – a mini-store within a store – this Saturday, June 21, at 9 a.m. in Elkins’s Delmonte Market.

Owned by Tammy Dolly, a longtime Moon Flower Hemp supporter, the Delmonte Market, which is also home to Crossroads Coffee, is teaming up with Moon Flower co-owners/founders Riley Queen, Macie Queen and Alex Skinner to collaborate in opening the first-ever satellite store.

Skinner said Delmonte Market was the first brick-and-mortar place Moon Flower sold its products, and Macie Queen noted the milestone moment for Moon Flower.

“It’s kind of a full circle moment for Moon Flower, I feel like, because that was one of our first launches and one of the first places we sold Moon Flower other than online,” Macie said. “Six years later, now we have our products in a storefront and we’re doing our first satellite location there, so it’s a full circle moment for Moon Flower.”

How will Moon Flower at the Delmonte differ from other stores where it’s carried? Starting Saturday, the Market will showcase an entire Moon Flower section, including Moon Flower’s entire line of goodies, a weekly elevated baked goods offering, a fully stocked Moon Flower cooler, an apparel section and a candy corner. Plus, the Delmonte will also offer the option to infuse their drink menu with 25 mg CBD, 5 mg Delta 9 and 10 mg Delta 9 (or some mix of the above).

Saturday’s opening of the first ‘mini Moon Flower’ location is set for 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., but the early birds will get the goodies in the form of a swag bag valued at approximately $100 in merchandise and even a sample of a new taffy flavor. The first 25 people in line that morning will snag a swag bag.

“We were looking for opportunities to expand our products into a physical location. We looked at storefronts everywhere, and then, it was Jamie’s (Queen) idea to put a mini store in the Delmonte,” Skinner said.

One of the musts for Moon Flower was to provide education along with options.

“Their staff will go through a whole training process on our product line so they can be fully ready to recommend products to people through their cannabis journeys,” co-owner Riley Queen said.

Macie said the collab is fitting since Delmonte has attracted new customers to Moon Flower in Buckhannon.

“It’s crazy how many people we get that come in here and say, ‘Oh, I heard about you guys at the Delmonte Market and I’ve been following you,’ so they really have put a lot of people on to Moon Flower, which I think is cool,” she said.

Riley said Moon Flower’s longstanding relationship with Delmonte, the trustworthiness of its owners and the market’s vibe complemented craft cannabis.

“We also wanted the environment to feel more like luxury and high-end to match our brand and make sure that people get the level of transparency that they have here shopping, and we want to make sure the level of support at our newer location is the same as what they get when they come into our shop here,” she said.

Skinner said it’s important for the craft cannabis company to work with businesses that aren’t only about the bottom line.

“I think it’s important to work with businesses that aren’t really just about making their dollar from customers,” he said. “Obviously, that’s important, but it’s giving the customers a good shopping experience, recommending the correct products, really catering to the needs that they’re after. Because our products can benefit a wide range of needs, and if doing that is part of their mission and their goals, that’s someone we want to work with.”

Macie said it would be a big misconception to think Moon Flower only caters to recreational use customers.

“Obviously we have a lot of customers that use Moon Flower recreationally, but we have just as many customers that come in and say, ‘Hey, I’m experiencing this, this and this,’ ‘I have anxiety,’ ‘I have arthritis,’ or I’m having trouble sleeping,’” she said. “And then it’s so important to us to have someone there to be able to kind of break it down for them and point them in the right direction, instead of them just blindly going for it.”

Riley said Moon Flower thought teaming up with Delmonte was a way to support another small business that’s involved in the Elkins area community, and owner Tammy Dolly fit the bill perfectly.

“She’s just so supportive of the Elkins community, and is really involved in a lot of the community events that they do around there, and that means a lot to us, too,” Riley said. “Because we are very community-oriented here. We want to be intertwined in ways that break the stigma.”

Skinner said Moon Flower plans to offer exclusive flavors of its goodies to highlight the Elkins location.

“That’s one of the main focuses with the Delmonte, too, is the fresh edibles; we want to introduce flavors there that we don’t even do here, so it has its own aspect to it, where customers are drawn to the Delmonte. Like, ‘I need to try this flavor,'” he said.

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