Welcome to Anarchy in a Jar

Jam, jelly, marmalade and chutney made with love in Brooklyn, New York.

local.handmade.artisanal.urban

Anarchy is freedom from food tyranny.

Find Us

We get around. Where are we selling jam now?

MARKETS & EVENTS

Smorgasburg, Williamsburg: Starts Saturday, April 6th, 2013 from 11-6pm
every SATURDAY until Thanksgiving
Smorgasburg, DUMBO: Starts Sunday, April 7th 2013, 11-6
every SUNDAY until Thanksgiving

BROOKLYN

Fort Greene & Clinton Hill
>Greene Grape Provisions
>Brooklyn Victory Garden
>Brooklyn Larder
Ditmas Park
>Market
Williamsburg
>Radish
>Bedford Cheese Shop >Tops on the Waterfront
>Dépanneur

Carroll Gardens
>Court Street Grocers
>Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain
>By Brooklyn
>Stinky
>Gourmet Fresh
Greenpoint
>Eastern District
DUMBO
>Forager's Market
Park Slope
>Blue Apron

MANHATTAN

>Whole Foods, all NYC locations LES Bowery, UWS, Union Square, Tribeca, Chelsea, Columbus Circle
>Murray's Cheese in the West Village & Grand Central Terminal
>Lucy's Whey in Chelsea Market
>Nolita Mart in Chinatown
>Blue Ribbon Bakery in the West Village
>Dickson's Farmstead Meats in Chelsea Market
>Forager's Market in Chelsea
>Beecher's Handmade Cheese in Union Square
>Bedford Cheese Shop in Gramercy
>New-York Historical Society Museum Store in Upper West Side

ELSEWHERE
>The Hop: Craft Beer & Artisanal Fare in Beacon, NY
>Whole Foods Market in Long Island, Connecticut and New Jersey
>Avedano'sin San Francisco

>Heath Ceramicsin San Francisco and LA

>Joppa Fine Foodsin Newburyport, Massacusetts

>Di Bruno Brosin Philadelphia

>Gone Native Foodsin Union Market, Washington DC

>BakeHousein Washington DC

>Datz Deliin Tampa, Florida

ONLINE

Buy our jam online at Sif Foods
or Murray's Cheese
or New York Mouth
or With Love, From Brooklyn
or Little Island Kitchen

Local Fruit Farms

Our favorite organic*, pick-your-own fruit farms in Southeast New York.

Thompson-Finch Farm
gorgeous organic strawberries and raspberries.
Ancram, NY http://thompsonfinch.com

Garden of Eve farm
vegetables, fruits and flowers. Pick-your-own and farmstand. They also have a stand at Brooklyn's McCarren Park Farmer’s Market.
North Fork, Long Island http://www.gardenofevefarm.com

Fishkill Farms
apples, peaches, cherries! Hopewell Jct., NY http://www.fishkillfarms.com

Handsome Brook Farm
raspberries and tomatoes. Franklin, NY www.handsomebrookfarm.com

Fix Brothers Orchards
cherries (sweet, sour or black), peaches and apples. NOT certified organic, but the best cherries, including the rare dark-red morello cherry! A beautiful spot overlooking the Hudson River.
Hudson, NY  Phone: (518) 828-7560

Liberty View Farm
fruit, vegetable, and honey.
Highland, NY

Montgomery Place Orchards
all kinds of fruit, especially great for heirloom varieties. A beautiful spot near the Hudson River and the pretty towns of Red Hook & Rhinebeck.
Annandale-On-Hudson, NY 
Phone: (845)758.6338

*growing organic fruit in the NE is very hard, and therefore there are very few farms that do it, hence the inclusion of low-spray. We feel that local trumps organic: support your local farms!

Local Fruit Harvesting Dates
Tart Cherries: July 1-July 25
Blueberries: July 15-August 25
Summer Raspberries: July 15-August 15
Apples: Mid-July-Late October
Fall Raspberries: Sept 3-Oct 31 (or hard freeze)

Quotes from Anarchy Eaters

"Tumultuously tasty." ~Edible Brooklyn

"extraordinary preserves." ~Julia Moskin, New York Times

"In Laena McCarthy's hands, chaos is sweet." ~Tasting Table

"exceptional Strawberry Balsamic Jam." ~Cool Hunting

"a delicious and quirky play at locavorianism." ~MadeMan

"The first bite was so good, saliva literally sprayed out of my mouth." ~Halle

"Nom Nom." ~Holly

"It's amore!" ~pseudo-Italian guy

"Totally rad." ~jam loving hipster

"I've been dreaming about your jam." ~ Caroline

"Nothing compares to you." ~JB

Eco-Delivery with “Traffic Jam” Bike Delivery Service

Need some jam RIGHT NOW? Do you live in Brooklyn or lower Manhattan? We can deliver the goods to your door via our bike, Bluebell.

It's a recession, people, and eating out is so passe. That's why Traffic Jam is here to rock your Sunday morning.

For details and to place an order, visit the "Get Jam" page.

bluebell

Umami Shiso Fine Mustard

Say it out loud and it’s pretty funny: “umami shiso fine”. Say it with a little swagger, maybe a slight Puerto Rican or Dominican accent.

Our newest invention in the Anarchy kitchens is UMAMI SHISO FINE MUSTARD, and it’s just what it sounds like: umami + shiso. How do we make it? We take mustard seeds [...]

Mustard + Ketchup now available at Whole Foods

It’s true, we cheated on jam with ketchup and mustard. It started as a simple tryst and ended with a full-blown affair. The mustard will soon be available at most of the stores where we sell the jam, and the ketchup is exclusive to whole foods.They are available at all the Northeast stores in New [...]

Taste of New York at New-York Historical Society

A Taste of New-York History Launch Event

A Meet-the-Maker Artisan Marketplace
Sunday, MAY 5, Noon to 4:00 p.m.
New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, N.Y.C.
Free!   RSVP to taste@nyhistory.org
Visit www.nyhistory.org/taste for more information

The market will feature multiple vendors, offering visitors a place to meet and mingle with the incredibly talented artisan food makers whose products are for sale in the Museum [...]

New Flavor Alert: Fig + Onion Jam

Winter is so boring, especially for fruit nerds like us. But we fought the blues by creating a new flavor, Fig + Onion Jam, and we think you’re going to like it. Laena is a big fan of savory + sweet condiments, ones that can flirt with cheese but stand on their own too. We [...]

DIY Gift How-To: Recycled Jam Jar Snow Globe

Or you can buy these rad ones on Etsy!

I love hearing the ways people reuse our jam jars — salad dressing shaker, shot glass, and spice storage are some of my favs. But the most fun, creative and splashy? Making snow globes. How awesome are snow globes? As a little girl, I used to [...]

Holiday Markets 2012

It’s that time of the year again. Time to eat well, get cozy, spend time with friends and family, and give the gift of jam. Jam makes an awesome hostess gift and is pretty exciting when pulled from a stocking on Christmas morning. You can find the jam at your favorite grocery or cheese shop, [...]

Jams at Anthropologie

The jams got a little bored just being in New York and the tri-state, so they’ve packed their bags and made their way to select Anthropologie stores nationwide, and online. Check out their new “pantry” section, it’s a pretty awesome selection of tasty goods (and yes, many items are from our Brooklyn gang of makers).

Did you see the chutney in Saveur?

There was lots of blushing and and whoops of joy in the Anarchy kitchen when we saw our  Tipsy Quince & Cranberry Chutney featured in the November issue of Saveur.

If you would like to try the chutney, you can find it at our market booths at Smorgasburg (Williamsburg on Saturdays and Dumbo on Sundays) and [...]

Jam Sessions -- Classes are BACK for Fall!

I apologize to all the folks who’ve been asking for classes this summer, but they’re back for fall! And this time, I’m teaching in our professional kitchen at the secret Anarchy in a Jar headquarters. This class will be super fun! And it ends with a jam, cheese, wine/beer pairing (i.e., snacks).

ABOUT THE CLASS:

Do you [...]

Jam Elves Hard at Work

towers of boxes, ready to be filled with jam

Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah!

I know, you may still be wearing shorts and the leaves haven’t even turned colors yet, but in the Anarchy Headquarters (AH), the elves are already hard at work to make sure store shelves are stocked with jam for the holidays.