Inside the rise of Wojo Co., from basement grows to Michigan’s cleanest concentrates 

Bay City’s Tyler Wejrowski built his marijuana empire from two lights and six plants. Now his solventless operation, with its first retail location opening soon, is setting the bar for clean cannabis concentrates in Michigan.

PINCONNING—Long before Wojo Co. became the most respected name in cannabis concentrates in Michigan, Tyler Wejrowski was growing six plants in his Bay City basement.

It was 2012. He had two lights, no real budget, and a steady ritual: Cut clones, raise the plants, smoke every strain that he harvested, and pay close attention to its actual effects.

“I  loved the process,” Wejrowski told The MichiGanja Report. “The harder you work growing weed, the better product you’re gonna get and the more product you’re going to get. And with any commercial agriculture, those are the two things that you need to grow your business.”

More than a decade later, that same obsessive trial-and-error strategy has scaled up to a 49-acre campus in Pinconning with three Class C licenses, a cutting-edge lab, and a statewide cult following that treats every new Wojo drop like they’re selling liquid gold.

But not much else has changed. Wejrowski still hunts down the seeds himself. The plants are still grown in-house. The hash is still washed with chilled water, no solvents. And every step is still guided by the same core belief: If you wouldn’t smoke it, don’t let it leave the building.

“We give a shit. We care. Our product is top-notch because we were caregivers and we smoke this, too. I will never put out a product that I will not smoke myself. And if anybody ever wanted to challenge me on that, I will smoke grams of hash with ‘em,” Wejrowski said with a laugh.

Welcome to The Hive

From the outside, Wojo Co. doesn’t look like much: a low-slung, matte-black facility surrounded by cornfields and farmland just north of Bay City. But inside, it’s buzzing—literally. 

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The team calls it The Hive, and like a colony of bees, each worker has a role: trimmers, washers, press techs, packagers, all moving with quiet precision under crisp white light. 

Many have been with the company since the early caregiver days. Some even used to work with Wejrowski at Buffalo Wild Wings before recreational cannabis was legalized in Michigan. 

Everything is done in-house. And everything starts with the grow. 

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Wejrowski refuses to use pesticides, instead relying on beneficial insects and bio-fungicides to keep plants healthy. After harvest, the flower is frozen within 30 minutes and prepped for washing using a proprietary process only honed through years of small-batch trial and error.

From there, the resulting concentrates are pressed, packaged, and portioned—with each jar carefully dolloped by hand. The joints are also rolled by hand. Even the flower itself is hand-trimmed, though staff admit they grow their bud primarily for hash, not for packing bowls.

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“The Wojo Way” isn’t just good branding. It’s written on whiteboards, echoed in team meetings, and baked into every cannabis product that makes it past quality control at Wojo Co.

“ That’s the number one thing: Strength in numbers,” Wejrowski said. “Having a solid team is definitely what separates us. I can count on every department knowing what they’re doing.”

A jar worth chasing

Wojo Co. doesn’t just make rosin. They make the kind of rosin that has Reddit threads tracking every new drop, with some Michigan dispensaries struggling to keep up with the demand.

Some of that buzz comes from standout strains like Lemon Stank, a phenotype known for its sharp, funky, citrus-like profile and clean, long-lasting high. Their pre-rolled Stingerz and Honey Holes are also some of the highest rated joints on the market. But Wejrowski said a lot of his company’s success all boils down to consistency—and the trust that comes along with it.

“ We have two people that just handle our customer relations, so they go on Reddit DMs and emails to talk with customers,” he said. “If someone has an issue or something looks off, we’ll take care of it. Our goal is to get every one of those issues resolved within a couple of days.”

That level of control is intentional. 

Wojo Co. is single-source. So, every product comes from cannabis they grow, wash, and press themselves. And starting this month, they’re taking it further by opening their first retail location in Bay City—finally giving the team full control over the entire supply chain, from seed to shelf.

Caregivers at heart

For all the high-end equipment and growing reputation, Wojo Co. still runs on the same fuel it did back in Wejrowski’s basement: passion, precision, and a deep love for the plant. Ask anyone on staff, and they’ll tell you—they’re not chasing hype. They’re chasing the perfect dab.

That’s why nothing at Wojo Co. happens by accident.

Every strain is carefully selected. Every new batch is tested and tasted. And every single gram is made with the same guiding principle Wejrowski learned early in his journey as a former caregiver for medical marijuana patients: care about what you’re doing, or don’t bother doing it.

“We came from the bottom,” Wejrowski added. “ That’s one of the reasons why we’ve been successful. All those years of caregiving was practice for the big stage. That’s the way I see it.”

The bottom line 

Plenty of Michigan cannabis brands talk about purity, but few can trace every gram back to a seed popped in-house, grown pesticide-free, washed within the hour, and pressed by the same hands that planted it. Fewer still will hop on Reddit at 2 a.m. to discuss replacing a pre-rolled joint that didn’t deliver. 

That combination—farm-boy work ethic, lab-grade process, and true caregiver empathy—is why Wojo Co. products can sell out within minutes of landing on the shelf and why their products have become shorthand for “good hash” in dispensary lobbies from Houghton to Hamtramck.

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