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Girl Meets Dirt | Heirloom Fruit Preserves & Shrubs, Orcas Island

Heirloom preserves.
Handmade in six copper pots.
Orcas Island.

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Heirloom preserves, honoring the 120-year orchard legacy of Orcas Island. Single-varietal fruit, pitted, sliced, and diced by us, then cooked to set point in six copper pots with organic fair trade cane sugar and fresh-pressed lemon. No added pectin - just fruit, sugar, time and evaporation. Which means a heck of a lot more fruit in the jar.

This is our tale of plum pits, magic chasers, and muddy rubber boots. Honored to share it with you 🌱

 

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Italian plums on a century-old branch on Orcas Island.
Heirloom spoon preserves in glass jars, handmade on Orcas Island

Preserves

Cheese board with preserves, fruit paste and crackers

Pairings

Girl Meets Dirt fruit shrubs and cocktail bitters

Shrubs & Bitters

Girl Meets Dirt Jam Club delivery of seasonal preserves

Jam & Shrub Club

Girl Meets Dirt preserve gift box with ribbon and wax seal

Curated Gift Sets

The Girl Meets Dirt tasting room in Eastsound on Orcas Island

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Good Food Award winning preserves, shrubs and bitters

Award Winners

Audra Query in the jam kitchen on Orcas Island

Our Story

In the early 1900s these islands were the fruit basket of the west.

Bartlett pears and Italian plums, crated off in boats to feed the young cities.

Those orchards are still here. Some of the trees are 120 years old.

Pitted, sliced, and diced by us. Six copper pots, no pectin. Then the ferry, just like us.

 

Twelve Good Food Awards, and a placement in every judging year since 2018.

 

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Tiny batches. Subscribers first.

New releases here before anywhere else, and 15% off your first jar.