Now at Terp Bros NYCBrand File · Preferred GardensAstoria + Ozone Park

Preferred Gardens at our Queens shops.

Indoor flower with 260+ proprietary strains.

Live at Terp Bros NYC , both Astoria and Ozone Park counters carry this brand. Products go through New York OCM’s regulated testing framework before they hit the shelf.

Brand file

02 · The Brief

What Preferred Gardens means at the Terp Bros counter.

Preferred Gardens is the flower brand on our wall for Queens shoppers who care about strain depth more than name recognition. The brand is family-owned, founded by David Polley in 2015 with cultivation experience dating back to 2005, and the calling card is the proprietary strain library, 260+ in-house cultivars that the operation has built up over years of breeding work. That depth shows up in the case as variety: when Preferred Gardens lands fresh stock, you're often looking at less common strains. Both Astoria and Ozone Park carry the line, with indoor and mixed-light flower making up the headline drops, plus pre-rolls and concentrates rotating in. The brand holds licenses in California, Florida, and New York, which means the NY-shelf inventory is produced specifically for our market and has cleared the state's lab testing requirements. For Queens shoppers building a personal terpene preference, heavy gas, citrus, floral, dessert, the breadth of the Preferred Gardens library is one of the better starting points on our wall.

Why it lives at Terp Bros

Flower is the heart of the Terp Bros menu, and we curate the wall for strain variety as much as for raw potency. Preferred Gardens delivers on the variety side. When a budtender hears 'I want something I haven't tried,' this is one of the first brands they reach for. Indoor flower for the dense-bud, terp-forward customer; mixed-light when value is the priority. Stocked at both stores, pick your closer location and ask what's freshly in. Pair a Preferred Gardens eighth with OCB papers from the accessory case and you've got a session built from one trip. Because the strain library runs deep, this is the brand to ask about when you want to explore terpene profiles beyond the standard Gelato/Runtz/Z lineup.

Cracking the jar on a Preferred Gardens strain you've genuinely never heard of, and the terpenes hitting you before you've even ground anything up, gas or citrus or something floral you can't quite place. The reward for shopping outside the same five strain names every other Queens customer already knows by heart, and the reason our budtenders point regulars at this brand when the request is 'something I haven't tried before.'

Flower Pre-Rolls Concentrates

03 · Live shelf · Astoria

Preferred Gardens on the rail today.

8 live SKUs

flowerTHC 28.19%

01 · Origin

California

02 · Founded

2015

03 · Compliant

NY OCM

04 · Stores

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05 · Categories

04 · Lineage

Out of California, on the Queens shelf today.

Preferred Gardens originated in 2015 in California. Like every brand on our wall, it earned its spot only after passing the New York OCM compliance lab and our buyer’s shelf review. What lands at Astoria and Ozone Park is the same formulation the brand makes everywhere, held to the same independent test we hold our Hudson Valley growers to.

05 · Frequently asked

What folks ask about Preferred Gardens.

Q.01Is Preferred Gardens sold in New York?

Yes. Preferred Gardens is licensed in New York and the inventory at Terp Bros is produced specifically for the NY market, not shipped in from the brand's California or Florida operations. We carry the line at both Astoria and Ozone Park, with indoor and mixed-light flower as the headline drops plus pre-rolls and concentrates rotating in. Because the brand has been cultivating since 2015 (with founder experience back to 2005), the operational maturity behind the NY product is well established. All jars and pre-rolls on our shelf have cleared OCM testing. Ask the budtenders at your closer store what just hit from the most recent drop.

Q.02What categories does Preferred Gardens make at Terp Bros?

Flower is the headline, both indoor and mixed-light cultivation styles, with pre-rolls and concentrates rounding out the lineup. The brand's strength is the proprietary strain library (260+ in-house cultivars), so specific SKUs rotate frequently as new harvests come through. The indoor flower tends to land at a premium price point because of the controlled-environment cultivation, while mixed-light offers a more accessible price-per-gram. Our budtenders at both stores can walk you through which strains are currently on the wall and what the dominant terpene profiles taste like, gas, citrus, floral, dessert, or something more unusual from the back of the library.

Q.03Is Preferred Gardens NY OCM compliant?

Yes. Every Preferred Gardens unit on our shelf has cleared the NY OCM-required testing pipeline, including cannabinoid and terpene potency, microbials, heavy metals, and residual pesticides. The brand has been cultivating since 2015 (with founder experience back to 2005), so the operational track record is well established by NY market standards. Indoor flower in particular gets close scrutiny on the microbial side because of the higher moisture environment, and Preferred Gardens has consistently delivered jars that pass those checks. COAs are available on request from any budtender at either store.

Q.04Preferred Gardens vs other flower brands, what's the difference?

The differentiator is the 260+ proprietary strain library. Most flower brands cycle through a small core lineup of well-known strains plus a few seasonal drops. Preferred Gardens runs a much deeper bench, which means you'll find cultivars on the wall that you genuinely haven't seen elsewhere. If you're building a personal terpene preference and want to taste-test outside the standard strain names, this is the line to ask your budtender about. The family-owned, multi-decade cultivation experience also shows in the cure and trim quality, the jars tend to land properly dried, not overly dry or sticky, which makes the smoking experience more consistent.

06 · Adjacent on the shelf