Blackberry Jam

About this product

Small-Batch Blackberry Jam — Bright, Not Too Sweet

Made from our own blackberries, grown right here on the farm — bright, not too sweet. The blackberry patch lives along the side wall of one of our farm buildings and gives us about three weeks of picking each July. We jam the same day the berries are picked, before the sugars settle and the brightness fades. A small batch is twelve jars — enough to fill the pantry, not enough to last past March.

The recipe is short on purpose: ripe blackberries, less sugar than the supermarket version, lemon juice from a real lemon, and pectin from the apple peels we save through the winter for exactly this. No food coloring, no high-fructose corn syrup, no thickeners. The texture is loose-set and spoonable — runs a little if you spread it on warm toast, which we consider a feature.

Great on sourdough with butter, swirled into plain yogurt with granola, or spooned over the goat-cheese ice cream we sell at the fall fair. Once opened, keep it in the fridge and eat within a month — though if it lasts that long, you're not eating enough toast.