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In 2002 we started making jam from an old Blenheim apricot tree in our Santa Clara, California backyard. What started as a hobby turned into a business when Food & Wine magazine wrote in their February 2007 issue it was the best jam they ever tasted.

Eric picking apricots from our tree

The Blenheim apricot was one of the first items listed on the Slow Food USA Ark of Taste. This is a list of endangered food processes and agricultural items. Until the 1970s, what is now Silicon Valley was the largest producer of apricots in America. Acres and acres were farms growing this delicious fruit, that due to its fragile nature, was either canned or sun dried. We have a customer in her 90s who said you could drive down the main freeway, 101, and smell apricots in the air each summer. That is how many farms there were!

Well, we all know what happened. Virtually all the farms are gone - replaced with high tech corporate offices and suburbs. An important agricultural area was almost completely wiped out in the name of progress. However, this region is famous for its soil and climate, and the few farms left are extremely special because the fruit and vegetables they produce are the very best. While many people know the San Francisco Bay area is famous for food and wine, what few realize is this is because of our special microclimates and soil that is completely unique.

welovejam is a two person company. We have intentionally stayed small because we believe expansion would compromise quality and we can afford to. In some ways it is more a hobby than a business. We do everything ourselves from answering emails and processing orders, to making the products, designing the packaging, packing orders, hand writing gift cards and dropping them off at UPS. It is a tiny operation, but through satisfying hard work we are able to supply a dizzying array of products to customers around the world.

If you appreciate well-made food, with outstanding flavor, why not give our incredible products a try?

Eric experimenting in his San Francisco Eichler home kitchen