Welcome to the Jamarchy Jam, jelly, preserves 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
New Amsterdam Market: Starts Sunday, June 5, 11-4
Smorgasburg: Starts Saturday, May 21, 9-5
BROOKLYN
Fort Greene
>Greene Grape Provisions
Clinton Hill
>Choice Greene
Park Slope
>Blue Apron Fine Foods
Ditmas Park
>Market
Williamsburg
>Radish
>Bedford Cheese Shop
>Spuyten Duyvil Grocery
Carroll Gardens
>Court Street Grocers
>Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain
>By Brooklyn
Cobble Hill
>Cobblestone Foods
Boerum Hill
>Da Vine Provisions
Greenpoint
>Eastern District
MANHATTAN SHELVES & TABLES
>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
>Lafayette Espresso Bar and Marketplace in SoHo, Manhattan
>Nolita Mart in Chinatown
>Blue Ribbon Bakery in the West Village
Steve's Ice Cream in Manhattan at Bryant Park (4 East 42nd St.) and coming soon to Boerum Hill in Brooklyn (420 Atlantic Ave)
ONLINE
Buy our jam online at Sif Foods
or Murray's Cheese
or New York Mouth
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)
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.
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
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Have you heard of the new summer sweet spot Steve’s Ice Cream? It’s awesome and we’re very lucky to be served on their sundaes.
Steve’s is an ice cream brand that originated in Massachusetts with mix-in guru Steve Herrell, but is now based out of Long Island and run by a really nice crew of people. The [...]
Our friends at Sif Foods in Queens are selling our jam via their website and shipping it to faraway places, which is super great of them — plus you can get all the awesome gourmet products that they offer too (like Wild Burgunday Snails!). You can click here to buy jam. We only offer our [...]
Or Queens, but close enough. Our good friends and family at Brooklyn Grange have been growing some strawberries, partly due to my persistent urging. This season they had to be beheaded early to make for a better harvest next season. But some little soldiers lived on and they’re delicious! My lovely friend Cathy (illustrious writer [...]
Markets are where you will find the jam Queen and her resident Jamarchists-in-training every weekend all summer long.
Emma and I have been having a great time and enjoying all the lovely people we get to meet! Come visit if you haven’t yet, or become a weekly visitor (our favorite!) and taste the new flavors like [...]
We’ve been having lots of fun pickling strawberries! We experimented with a host of flavors and settled on the mildest white vinegar with a host of spices to make it a delicious.
We used perfectly ripe little strawberries from Red Jacket Orchards in upstate New York. We added Thai Basil from my boyfriend Ben’s Brooklyn Grange [...]
Jam has been a theme in a lot of children’s literature over the years. Jam somehow finds a way into our collective learning as a metaphor for family, community, eating and sharing. As a librarian and jam maker, I’m going to share some of my favorites with you.
The most famous kid’s book about jam is [...]
You asked for it and here it is!
Strawberry Preserves with Mint & Pink Peppercorns
This is a recipe for whole strawberries preserved in their juice. Using small, sweet early season strawberries is necessary. You can find these in the farmer’s market for the next few weeks.
4C mashed fruit
2C sugar
2t calcium water (Pomona’s Pectin)
2t pectin (Pomona’s Pectin)
2tbl [...]
As noted in previous posts, I’ve been working on a beer jelly all winter and the first batches were ready for the second Smorgasburg Market on May 28th. There was lots of good response, my favorite being a gentleman who took a taste unknowingly and said “what is this jelly and why does it make [...]
We’ve been working on a new Spiced Beer Jelly throughout the winter and have settled on a recipe.
We combined Sixpoint Craft Ales Mad Scientist #3 beer, local apples from Terhune Orchards in New Jersey, grains of paradise, black cardamom, Indonesian Cinnamon, lemon juice, sugar, and all natural pectin.
Chris — who owns Eastern District, [...]
perfectly cut by my sous chef, mr. ben flanner
adding the hibiscus
crazy colors as the rhubarb and hibiscus boil!
Spring is here and the first edible jammable produce is starting to pop up on local farms and at the market! On a rainy spring afternoon, I trudged to the market in my rain boots to bargain my first [...]
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Ask A Jam Queen Go to our FAQs page where the jam queens answer your most intimate jam questions and expel deceitful rumors.
Find out the answers to such zingers as:
Q: What’s the difference between jam, jelly, preserves, marmalade and conserves?
Q: What’s pectin?
Q: What’s an “heirloom”?
Q:Can jam kill you?
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