Did you want exclusivity?! Well me too.
If you haven’t already noticed, Potlicker Jams are no longer being distributed to stores. The website is open for shopping, shipping, & gifting. Better yet, my Etsy page is updated and easy to use.
The shop itself has been battling a slow loading problem. It’s always a work in progress and always keeps me humble. For fall and holiday shopping, Etsy is going to be the place! My Etsy shop has everything from wine and beer jellies, fruit jams, gift sets, etc. The best selling Pineapple Habanero will be available again by late October. You can get on the waiting list here.
Head back to the Potlicker site for serving suggestions and recipe ideas.
You might find me at my personal website, Nancy-Warner.com, more frequently these days. In shifting my career and Potlicker, I have found a renewed interest in visual arts. I’ve been at the Tampa Museum of Art for the last year. This inspires me to look at things differently as well. You may find that the Potlicker social media feeds start to shift to a more artistic perspective, backward to the more visually curious. Some of this, especially landscape photography, is already reflected in my personal IG page Ms. NancyJean.
The move to manufacturing was one of the biggest challenges for Potlicker. This move forced me away from the art and craft of food and into refined business of numbers and efficiency. Love & flexibility were lost and knowledge was never built upon, and soon, it was lost too. Jars of sugary spreads were coming out of the factory bearing little resemblance to the love that was previously hand poured from my own kitchens. I honestly thought in 10 years and 10 thousands of jars, the recipes were next to fool-proof. It doesn’t matter how much information a binder can hold if no one ever refers to it.
So for now, I have stopped making jam for other people. I made jam for my family this year. Plain strawberry jam. On repeat. We eat most of it on toasted sliced bread or between slices with peanut butter. This weekend, we used it to flavor the frosting on a birthday cake.
I love the flavor creation, the experimentation, and the fixability that is small batch canning. When you work in small batches, a one on one, if you will; small errors are fixable and create opportunity. Working on a larger scale, small errors can lead to big loss quickly. This is part of the risk in growth and how can you deny the opportunity for growth?
Hopefully I will make time for some of the lost flavors and ones that have not yet been created. When each batch gets made it will be added to the website; no promises for social media shout outs or email releases. So make sure to check back in frequently to see if you favorite flavor is back in stock!
If you made it this far, thank you so incredibly much for being here on the Potlicker journey. Whether you have been here since the schoolhouse in Vermont, or joined me in Florida, thank you for being a friend. Please keep this code Friend15 for 15% off your order.
May your fall be golden, and your Holidays sweet.
Nancy Warner 