Welcome to 510 Fruits

510 Fruits came into existence because I love fruit and foraging and jam making. I love the bounty of seasonal produce and I came to love canning and jam making when I learned how hard it is to actually use all the fruit from a tree when it ripens. After processing my own backyard fruit, I began to see fruit everywhere I went. Thus the initiation into forage. Foraging in my neighborhood has taught me about the often overlooked bounty of our streets and backyards and has been a great way to meet neighbors, build community, and more efficiently share in the season's offerings.

As my love of fruit and jam has become an obsession, the stack of jam in my house has grown to waist high and wobbly. I realized I needed a way to get the jam out of my house as fast as I seem to be making it. Thus 510 Fruits and this attempt to share the variety of locally foraged and harvested fruits I have made into jams, marmalades, fruit butters and canned. Selling is not about making money, but just about covering the cost of jars and ingredients so that I can go on making more jam.

On the label, the byline "local forage" means the fruit is foraged from my yard, friends' and neighbors' yards, and streetside. The byline "local harvest" means I picked the produce at a local u-pick farm. Names also include more specific information, usually the street name of where the fruit originated.


Monday, December 14, 2009

The SOLD OUT Blues

So after less than 2 weeks in the jam "business", my entire wobbly stack of 200+ jams is sold out. What an amazing pilot project this has been! Thank you for all your support and enthusiasm for this jamming endeavor. I'll definitely be continuing with the jam making, but can't fill more orders until I build up my stock again. Stay tuned to this blog (sign up as a follower for automatic updates) for announcements when new batches of jam get made and are available for sale. Happy Holidays and Happy Jam Making to all!
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