Meet Our Team of Jam Makers, Baristas and Bakers
Alchemist Jam is a company owned by Danny Roberts and Jennifer Fisher. We live in McMinnville, Oregon, just a few blocks away from our jam shop.
Danny is a musician and skateboarder and has worked in the culinary arts for over ten years. After many years of positive feedback about jam that he makes, he was encouraged to start his own jam company. He also loves to bake and our bakery has grown over the years as Danny gets more and more curious about sourdough and great pastries to make with local grains and fruits and vegetables.
Jennifer is an artist and entrepreneur who focuses on weaving, painting and jam shop ownership. She is autistic and her identity as an autistic person greatly shapes the ways that she works in the world. Her current interests include: local food systems, social justice, neurodivergence, queer and gender theory, plants, care work and fiber arts.
We currently also have eight amazing employees that keep everything going and are the heart and center of our business. We couldn’t do it without them.
Alchemist Origins
We enjoy the process of combining healing herbs with berries and fruit to make jam in much the same way that an alchemist works.
Alchemy is, in its essence, a spiritual practice involving the self-transformation of the practitioner as they transmute a common substance into something of great value.
Small Batch ·
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Small Batch · Organic & Local · Mindful ·
FAQ
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Danny first learned the ropes while working for a local jam company in his mid twenties. He later expanded his repertoire while making all of the jam for a local brunch restaurant. After he and Jennifer started dating, they spent the winter of 2016 trying different combinations at home and experimented with adding herbs. They came up with their current recipes together after lots of trial and error.
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We make all of our jam by hand in copper pots at our tiny jam shop in McMinnville, OR. Our address is 207 NE Ford St, McMinnville, OR 97128.
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During the summer season, we directly purchase berries from local farmers at the farmers markets that we sell at. Or, we go to farms in Yamhill, Clackamas, Lane or Multnomah county and purchase fruit directly from farmers. Occasionally (if we’re really lucky) then neighbors and community members drop fruit off at our jam shop, especially if they have a bumper crop that year. During the off season we get our berries and fruit from Blue Reaven in Amity, OR, and they locally source the berries for us. All of our fruit and berries are local!
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We use fair-trade and organic sugar which we source from a local distributor for all of our jams. We also use organic lemon juice for every recipe. All of our herbs are organic and are sourced from Mountain Rose Herbs, Starwest, or purchased directly from growers in our area.
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We try our very best to make all shipments within 1 week of your online purchase. Sometimes we have to make a batch of jam in order to fulfill a purchase and we make jam on Tuesdays. Most shipments will be made within a few business days and our shipments usually go out on Tuesdays or Fridays.
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We sell our jam every at Made Here PDX, Tender Loving Empire, Harvest Fresh, Carlton Bakery and a number of other retailers and wine tasting rooms. We also sell at the McMinnville Farmer's Market on Thursdays.