Roasted Strawberry Preserves
Ingredients: Local strawberries (specific supplier is listed on the label), organic sugar, organic lemon juice.
Size: 8 oz. jar
Roasted Strawberry Preserves
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Ingredients: Local strawberries (specific supplier is listed on the label), organic sugar, organic lemon juice.
Size: 8 oz. jar
Salted Caramel Apple Butter
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Slow cooked local apples are combined with organic sugar, sorghum molasses from Muddy Pond Sorghum Mill in Tennessee, vanilla beans and sea salt to create a really special apple butter. It can be dessert (it's delicious on ice cream!) or a great topping for your granola or yogurt. Some people just eat it straight out of the jar!
Ingredients: local apples (farm name and apple variety listed on the jar), organic sugar, Muddy Pond Sorghum Molasses, organic lemon juice, sea salt, vanilla bean
Size: 8 oz.
Blood Orange Marmalade
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We've just finished a batch of one of my favorite marmalades! I swoon over blood oranges, not only are they gorgeous, they smell amazing and make truly delicious marmalade! Year after year we have people at the farmers market come specifically for this marmalade, blood oranges have such an unusual and appealing flavor.
Size: 8oz
Ingredients: Organic blood oranges, organic sugar, organic lemon juice
N. Michigan Tart Cherries
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My husband grew up in a little town on the Leelanau Peninsula of Michigan called Leland. On this narrow peninsula 75% of all the tart cherries in the US are grown and they are delicious! Every summer when we go up to visit we bring back apricots and sometimes black raspberries but it's the tart cherries that everyone waits for. We have one customer that orders 20 pints every year! These preserves are delicious, whole tart cherries in syrup, sweetened just enough, with a hint of vanilla, perfect on ice cream or yogurt, in a mixed drink, in a tart, on a cheese plate or straight out of the jar.
Ingredients: tart cherries from Redpath Orchards in Lake Leelanau, MI, organic sugar, organic lemon juice, vanilla beans
Strawberry & Honeysuckle Jelly
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A lot of the time when we roast strawberries for our Roasted Strawberry Preserves there is lots of extra strawberry juice left over from the roasting process. I typically separate the excess juice, and store it in giant jars in the fridge, to save for future projects. One year I used it to make Blueberry Strawberry Jam. I've also made Strawberry Jelly a few times, but not very often, I'm just not really a huge fan of using pectin. There's no particular reason why I don't use pectin very often, I guess I just associate it with the stiff, grocery store preserves I had growing up. I much prefer keeping things simple, just cooking fruit down until it reaches it's own natural set.
To make a long story short, over the years way too much of this rich, flavorful strawberry juice has gone to waste and we amass A LOT. I decided that there was no way I was going waste another drop, so David and I concocted a plan. David picked a ton of honeysuckle, and we then steeped it in the strawberry juice overnight. We turned this glorious mixture into what is technically a jelly, but is really so much more. We even made honeysuckle syrup to use for future batches once the honeysuckle is gone for the season. We're calling it Strawberry & Honeysuckle Jelly even though it should be called a jally (jam and jelly mix) because the juice is so rich and flavorful. We did end up using pectin and I am surprised by how much I am enjoying it, the texture is just right, the flavor is spot on and the color is gorgeous. Actually, I think it's possible this may be my favorite thing we've ever made. And in even more exciting news our Strawberry & Honeysuckle Jelly is a 2020 Good Food Award winner!
Ingredients: Local strawberries (specific supplier is listed on the label), organic sugar, organic lemon juice, foraged honeysuckle from our farm, Pomona Pectin.
Roasted Raspberry Jam
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Raspberries are so beautiful and make gorgeous jam. Unfortunately it's just a little to warm in the Piedmont region of North Carolina to grown them reliably and in any kind of quantity. Over the years I've been able to find some pockets of these beauties, but usually they are far and few between. That is why I'm so excited to have found the folks at River Ridge Organics just over the North Carolina border in Independence, VA. They grow gorgeous berries of all kinds, but most importantly they grow both red raspberries AND black raspberries AND they are all certified organic. We roast these gorgeous raspberries to deepen their rich flavor before we turn them into jam.
Ingredients: organic red raspberries from River Ridge Organics in Independence, VA, organic sugar, organic lemon juice, Pomona Pectin
Size: 8oz. jar
Roasted Black Raspberry Jam
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Raspberries are so beautiful and make gorgeous jam. Unfortunately it's just a little to warm in the Piedmont region of North Carolina to grown them reliably and in any kind of quantity. Over the years I've been able to find some pockets of these beauties, but usually they are far and few between. That is why I'm so excited to have found the folks at River Ridge Organics just over the North Carolina border in Independence, VA. They grow gorgeous berries of all kinds, but most importantly they grow both red raspberries AND black raspberries AND they are all certified organic. We roast these gorgeous raspberries to deepen their rich flavor before we turn them into jam.
Ingredients: organic black raspberries from River Ridge Organics in Independence, VA, organic sugar, organic lemon juice, Pomona Pectin
Size: 8oz. jar
Mini Citrus Marmalades and Jams
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Every winter when there is no local fruit available we make marmalade. We can usually find blood oranges, oranges, grapefruit and a few other fun things but this winter was particularly special. Back in January we went to San Francisco to attend the Good Food Awards. While there we loaded up on lots of amazing citrus we found at Bi-Rite Market and lugged home on the plane. Bi-Rite is an amazing grocer with 2 locations, plus a creamery in San Francisco. They are also one of the only places you can purchase our jams outside North Carolina. We brought back Seville Oranges and Mandarinquats, two citrus fruits that we've never been able to find here in NC.
I'm most excited about a batch of Satsuma Mandarin Jam we made with mandarins our local wholesaler Happy Dirt Organics brought in from New Communities Farm in Albany, GA. If you have a chance to read about New Communities it is definitely worth your time, it's a collective farm in Southwest GA that was born in 1969 out of the Civil Rights movement. New Communities is widely recognized as the original model for community land trusts and was once one of the largest-acreage African American-owned properties in the United States. We've also purchased beautiful pecans from them that we use in our granola. This is a jam, no rind, just the juicy delicious inner fruit of the mandarins.
Mandarinquat Marmalade Ingredients: Organic mandarinquats, organic sugar, organic lemon juice, Pomona Pectin
Seville Orange Marmalade Ingredients: Organic Seville Oranges, organic sugar, organic lemon juice, Pomona Pectin
Satsuma Mandarin Jam Ingredients: Satsuma mandarins from New Communities Farm in Albany, GA, organic sugar, organic lemon juice, Pomona Pectin
We have all three of these special marmalades and jams available in mini size 4 oz jars for $6 each.
Extremely Hot Fire Sauce
Ghost peppers, Carolina Reapers and Trinidad Scorpions make this one H*LL of a hot sauce. We grow all of the peppers used in this hot sauce right here on the farm using sustainable growing methods. The peppers are harvested, made into hot sauce and bottled all in the same day.
Ingredients: Carolina Reaper, Trinidad Scorpion and Ghost peppers, organic white vinegar, sea salt
Size: 5oz.
Rooster Sauce
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Rooster Sauce is the perfect all purpose hot sauce, not too hot, but definitely hot enough, super flavorful and great on everything. Our Rooster Sauce is made with either Caribbean Red habaneros grown right here on the farm or with orange habaneros from our friends at Honey Bee Hill Farm in Prospect Hill, NC, the farm info will be listed right on the label.
Ingredients: habanero peppers, organic white vinegar, organic apple cider vinegar, sea salt, organic oranges, local sustainably grown garlic (farm is listed on the label), organic sugar
Local Ramp Salt
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Black Garlic Salt
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Pittsboro, NC , the little town where our farm is located, has the most amazing food community and I am thankful for it every day. Everyone is so generous and a prime example is our friend Angelina, of Angelina's Kitchen, sharing a very special batch of organic black garlic with us. We decided to use this gorgeous black garlic gift and make it into Black Garlic Salt. We combine the black garlic and fresh garlic from local farms with coarse sea salt and dehydrate them together. We were so excited about the black garlic that we immediately went out and bought our own Black Garlic machine (who knew there was such a thing!)
If you've never had black garlic it has a very distinctive flavor that is slightly sweet, and almost a little tangy like balsamic vinegar. The process to make it requires heating whole bulbs of garlic over the course of several weeks, a process that results in the black cloves. The browning is attributable to the Maillard reaction rather than caramelization, and black garlic is often used as an ingredient in Asian cooking. The Black Garlic Salt adds an amazing umami/garlic flavor that is useful in so many dishes. Interesting too is the fact that black garlic also has added health benefits, including twice the amount of antioxidants than in its regular form!
Ingredients: coarse sea salt, black garlic and fresh garlic (specific supplier is listed on the label)
Size: 4 oz. jar