Handcrafted in Oakland, CA, my preserves taste remarkably like fruit, not sugar! I source fruit from local backyards and organic farms at the height of the season. I use natural pectin that doesn't require sugar to gel. Then I finish it with just a touch of sweetness, usually local honey.
About the jammaker
I moved to Santa Cruz in 2007, enrolled in the Natural Chef program at Bauman College, and promptly went crazy for making jam instead of cooking my homework. I currently share a house in Oakland with lots of mammals (friends, dogs, baby.) I promise that I am not as much of a hippie as this bio makes me out to be; in fact I'm a pretty square midwesterner at heart. Which brings me back to my compulsion to somehow capture our gorgeous local bounty for the long hard California winter. By which I mean citrus season...