Taste!

Plain and simple. All our products are unlike anything you have ever tasted. Whether it is our Blenheim apricot jam, our Fukushu kumquat marmalade, our Mariposa or Elephant Heart plum jams, our bbq sauce, bread and butter pickles, biscotti, Swiss holiday cookies - everything is made by hand by the two of us in small batches using the best ingredients we find either locally from small farmers or from the best international sources. Before we sell anything we make sure that it passes our extremely critical taste test. If it doesn't taste amazing - we won't sell it.

When it comes to ingredients we don't mess around. If you see a jar of apricot jam they better say what variety it is. Same goes for plums, raspberries, strawberries etc. You see there are dozens of varities of apricots, plums, peaches, nectarines, strawberries, blackberries - and each one tastes different. And some better, far better than others. We choose the very finest tasting variety of every type of fruit and present it front and center. So next time you see a food product that lists a fruit and they don't say what variety it is - well that is a bad sign that means they use whatever they can get their hands on and that is usually the cheapest and often frozen. It also means they don't know their fruit. We were at a supermarket a few years back and a popular artisanal jam company had samples of their jams. We asked what the variety of each fruit was since it didn't specify on the label and the woman there gave us a blank expression. "What do you mean?" she said. When we explained there are many varities of each type of fruit she was shocked. When a company doesn't know what variety of fruit they are using and doesn't tell you - well that is like you saying you don't know what brand of car you are driving. Our use of specific varieties of ingredients is based on years of experimentation and you get all the benefits!

We're Green!

Long before being green was a trendy word, we have practiced in our lives for decades being as environmentally friendly as possible. Everything we do is in accordance with respecting and preserving nature.

We are the only nationally distributed company that packages everything we make in only recyclable or biodegradable containers/packaging/shipping materials. We never will use any plastic. We buy from local farms who do not use synthetic fertilizers or sprays. And of course we don't use any artificial ingredients, flavoring agents, transfats, corn syrup, GMOs or other nasty stuff in our products.

While we might be more expensive than other products - there is a concrete reason - we make everything ourselves in a small facility using the best ingredients regardless of cost and the packaging must be nature friendly - and nature friendly isn't cheap - unfortunately. It is our hope in the future what we do will become a standard for other food manufacturers and of course be more affordable!