Middleboro dispensary brings cannabis and cranberries together
A cannabis plant grows inside of a greenhouse at the Suncrafted dispensary in Middleboro. Photos by Sam Tucker
Suncrafted founder Tim McNamara, left, and Jared Grant speak on the myriad of cannabis strains that all have unique characteristics.
A batch of "Sunny" cannabis edibles rest in their molds. The cranberry-infused "Sunny" has gone on to win awards for its quality and flavor.
Roshana Godfrey, Suncrafted's chef, pulls out a tray of gummies in the kitchen. After working a career in fine-dining, she said she now enjoys the experimentation and unique products she creates for Suncrafted.
Small cannabis plants stand in an enclosure. The harvesting starts from growing small clippings like these into full-grown, flowering plants. 
A greenhouse with hundreds of freshly clipped cannabis plants shows the early growing process.
Jared Grant, who supervises growing the plants, explains that different cannabis strains need different amounts of light, nutrients and care.
Cannabis leaves blow in the soft wind created by fans.
Plants that are nearing harvest time poke above the netting that keeps the plants separated and stable while they grow.
Jared Grant, right, clips small leaves off of cannabis flowers, or buds.
Damain Winchester, the hash lab supervisor, shows hydraulic instruments that are used to press the cannabis flower into a syrup-like concentrate form.
McNamara chats with a customer in the dispensary's store front. Customers can come to the "bud bar" to get a whiff of the cannabis before they make a purchase.
A cannabis plant grows inside of a greenhouse at the Suncrafted dispensary in Middleboro. Photos by Sam Tucker
Suncrafted founder Tim McNamara, left, and Jared Grant speak on the myriad of cannabis strains that all have unique characteristics.
A batch of "Sunny" cannabis edibles rest in their molds. The cranberry-infused "Sunny" has gone on to win awards for its quality and flavor.
Roshana Godfrey, Suncrafted's chef, pulls out a tray of gummies in the kitchen. After working a career in fine-dining, she said she now enjoys the experimentation and unique products she creates for Suncrafted.
Small cannabis plants stand in an enclosure. The harvesting starts from growing small clippings like these into full-grown, flowering plants.
A greenhouse with hundreds of freshly clipped cannabis plants shows the early growing process.
Jared Grant, who supervises growing the plants, explains that different cannabis strains need different amounts of light, nutrients and care.
Cannabis leaves blow in the soft wind created by fans.
Plants that are nearing harvest time poke above the netting that keeps the plants separated and stable while they grow.
Jared Grant, right, clips small leaves off of cannabis flowers, or buds.
Damain Winchester, the hash lab supervisor, shows hydraulic instruments that are used to press the cannabis flower into a syrup-like concentrate form.
McNamara chats with a customer in the dispensary's store front. Customers can come to the "bud bar" to get a whiff of the cannabis before they make a purchase.
MIDDLEBORO — Amid the cranberry bogs scattered throughout Middleboro, one dispensary has grown a reputation for incorporating the local crop into hand-made cannabis edibles.
Tim McNamara opened the business, located at 477 Wareham St., three years ago. In that time, it has won awards for its creative products, enlisted a fine-dining chef onto the staff and has pursued both recreational and medicinal offerings.
Suncrafted offers three cranberry-flavored products: dark chocolate cranberry bite-sized edibles, cranberry-infused “Sunny” edibles and cannabis-infused cranberry sauce.
“I knew I wanted to work with cranberry growers, because they're surrounding us,” McNamara said.
The Middleboro business won “Best Cannabis Edible in Massachusetts” at the 2024 and 2025 New England Cannabis Conventions for its cranberry-infused “Sunny” edible, crafted with cranberries from Carver-based cranberry farm Red Meadow.
The yearly convention, known as NECANN, pits the best-of-the-best cannabis products of the region against each other. Suncrafted’s cranberry-infused edible won for “flavor, superior quality and overall effects,” according to the competition.
Unlike other cannabis dispensaries operating solely out of a storefront, Suncrafted has multiple greenhouses, processing labs and dozens of employees that take part in creating the products that stock their storefront’s shelves.
Much of this success is thanks to Chef Roshana Godfrey, who handmakes all of Suncrafted’s small batches of gummy and chocolate edibles from scratch.
Godfrey, who previously worked as a chef in fine dining for 30 years, said the small batches and fresh ingredients allow her to deliver a different kind of edible to consumers. Suncrafted recently started “Ro’s Kitchen,” a line of cannabis-infused baked goods that includes apple cider donuts, cookies and more.
“I just wanted something different. That's the cool thing about working here — I get to experiment and work on small batches, so things are more fresh and unique,” Godfrey said.
An average batch is about 1,000 gummies, and 2,000 chocolates, which is small in the cannabis industry, she said. The edibles are all hand-poured into molds, and Godfrey said she uses fresh fruit and purees in all the gummy edibles.
“I’m so proud of the small batches we make, and that every single edible is made by hand,” she said.
Suncrafted’s on-site production doesn’t stop at the kitchen. Behind the walls of their storefront lies a large cannabis-growing operation including multiple greenhouses, production labs and thousands of plants growing at a time.
Jared Grant, who supervises the growing and harvesting of the plants, said he became an employee in 2023 after buying plants at their store to grow on his own. He said it’s rewarding to go from seed to harvest after all the time and care he and his team put into the plants.
“It's honestly one of my favorite things — seeing [the plants] grow from a seed to what it does when it's fully grown,” Grant said.
He said as the plants grow, so does the team’s knowledge. Since every plant has different growing characteristics and harvesting times, it can take time to fine-tune the growing and harvesting process.
He said it's one job where he likes to “stop and smell the roses.”
“None of this happens overnight. It takes a lot of time getting to know these plants,” Grant said. “As time goes by, you get to know them a lot more and how well they'll do in different situations.”
Along with recreational products, McNamara also focuses on the medicinal benefits cannabis can bring.
He said he saw these benefits when his cousin, who is completely physically disabled and experienced daily seizures, started ingesting cannabis to ease his symptoms.
Before, the laundry list of prescription medications his cousin was on couldn’t stop the seizures — sometimes numbering hundreds every month.
“They put him on all kinds of opioid meds that weren't really doing very much, and were definitely cutting into his quality of life,” McNamara said.
The family soon found a strain of cannabis called Charlette’s Web that was nationally popularized for its medicinal benefits. It almost completely stopped the nightly seizures, and McNamara said it showed him the benefits medicinal cannabis can have.
He said many cannabis operators left the medicinal products on the way-side while pursuing recreational customers after marijuana became legal in Massachusetts in 2016.
The business is still finding stability in its early years of operations, but he said Suncrated won’t leave medical patients out of their business strategies.
“The opportunity, as far as medicine is, seems vast and wide and very promising,” McNamara said. “Who wouldn't want to be on the front line of something like that? It could be revolutionary.”
