not in the same jar, but seperately circling in the same orbit, each secure in their own unique sphere of sublime flavor.
golden raspberries are back as well, white lady and hibiscus, yellow peach and ginger, peach + lavender, peach + lime, all the late-season favorites.
get excited about the heritage harvest festival on september 11, at [...]

vintage virginia is really bringing their A-game this year. the incredible diversity of the fruit they grow is amazing, and means that i can get a few hundred pounds of a different plum every week.
last week i got methley plums, a japanese variety that jams up very similar to damson, this week i got shiro [...]

apricots are here, courtesy of Vintage Virginia in north garden and Chiles in crozet, and i’m so excited. i had a few last week, but many more now, and maybe a few left next week, but the window of opportunity is open, the time is now, the iron is hot, etc.
flavors: peach raspberry, peach blackberry [...]

flavors:
raspberry + rhubarb, raspberry + strawberry,  raspberry + cherry, raspberry + blueberry, and:
blueberry, blueberry + lemon, blueberry + lemon basil, blueberry + chocolate mint
sweet cherry, sweet cherry + chocolate mint, sweet cherry + lemon, cherry + strawberry
strawberry + thai basil, strawberry + lavender

so far i’ve made blueberry, blueberry + lemon, blueberry + chocolate mint, and blueberry + lemon basil.
raspberries are coming in!

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i remember how it was, last week:

but now, in addition to 2 or 3 more weeks of strawberries, we’re into central VA’s short but sweet cherry season, and it looks fabulous!

well, now that i’m into week 2 of jam 2010, i can safely say that after such a wet winter and a warm spring, even with the late frosts, it looks like a great time to be jamming in central virginia. strawberries came in early, their bounty is formidable and increasing, and we can only [...]

i just returned from a breif trip to Winston-Salem, NC, to visit my friend and ex-bandmate Erin, and to get a headstart on strawberry season.
i brought back about 150 pounds of fruit, which translates to about 150 jars, which i’ll be bringing out for my 2010 debut at the Farmers Market this Saturday (May 1).
i [...]

Pozzy-wallah - (1914) A man who is inordinately fond of jam.
Example: “Daniel was always a different sort of child, but who could have imagined he’d grow up into such a pozzy-wallah?!”
there are still a few jars of my jam on the shelf at the Greenwood Gourmet Grocery, at least there were the other day when [...]