Roots & Spoon

Fresh and flavorful, small-batch jams, jellies, pickles, and relishes handcrafted from local produce.
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09/30/2026

Three local businesses. Five thoughtfully curated courses. One seriously delicious fall evening.
We’re teaming up for a guided five-course tasting celebrating the flavors of autumn in New England:

Bubble Bar on Main — samplings from their fall cocktail menu Boards for Days — artisanal cheeses + charcuterie
Roots & Spoon — seasonal pickles + preserves

Each course has been created together, pairing cocktails, cheese, meats, pickles and preserves in ways you might not expect—from Cava, Tête de Moine and pickled blueberries to smoky mezcal, blackberry and rose, and plenty of fall flavors in between.
This isn’t just a five course tasting. It’s three local businesses bringing what we each do best to the same table.

📍 Bubble Bar on Main | Amesbury 📅 October 15 🕓 6-7 PM

Seats are limited, so grab yours and come experience fall one sip + bite at a time. (Link in bio & stories and on www.boardsfordays.com under workshops)
Please note: Because each course has been intentionally designed as a complete pairing, substitutions will not be available for this tasting.

09/28/2026

Every dinner just keeps getting better and better.

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us last night for another Roots & Spoon x Life Love Cheese dinner. There is something pretty special about gathering around a table, sharing good food, and watching new and familiar faces connect over each course.

And speaking of familiar faces—it was SO good to see so many people I haven’t seen in a while. That might have been one of my favorite parts of the night.
On the menu:

Small Bites — Lemon & Clove Pickled Red Beets with Whipped Feta, Moroccan Pickled Carrots with Whipped Goat Cheese, Pickled Apples with Cheddar, and Green Peppercorn Mustard with Gouda

Life-Love-Cheese Apple Cheddar Bread alongside Herbed Butternut Squash Soup

L’Amore Della Pasta | Artisanal Pasta Porcini Mushroom Pasta with Caramelized Onion, Fennel & Manchego

Apple Chocolate Mousse with Fat Toad Farm & Sea Salt

These dinners are exactly what I mean when I say Roots & Spoon is about creating community through food. Good food is wonderful. But getting people together to slow down, share a meal, catch up, meet someone new, and enjoy an evening together? That’s the really good stuff.

Thank you to everyone who came out, ate, laughed, chatted, and spent the evening with us, and, as always, to Life Love Cheese for letting me keep dreaming up these dinners with you.

Until the next table. ❤️

📸 credit: Dani

09/23/2026

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09/21/2026

I’ve been on a bit of a local food tear lately, but really, this is why Roots & Spoon exists in the first place. Before websites, social media, newsletters, photography, and consulting, I made pickles and jam.
And I even started with farming.
I even run a farmers market. I think it’s so important to meet your farmers and food makers because it’s all so very connected.

Food isn’t JUST food. It’s agriculture. Small business. Environment. Local economy. Policy. Access. Community.
So yes, I spend about 80% of my time talking about local food and the other 20% waiting for someone else to bring it up so I can continue talking about it.

Creating community through food isn’t just a tagline.
It’s kind of the whole point.

09/18/2026

Organic. Natural. Free range. Pasture-raised.
We see these words all over the grocery store, and most of us have been taught that they automatically mean “better.”
But here’s where things get complicated: At the grocery store, the label is often the end of the story. You see “organic,” but you may not know where it was grown, how far it traveled, what pest-management methods were used, or when it was harvested.

You see “free range” or “pasture raised,” but you’re still several steps removed from the farm and the actual conditions behind those words. You see “natural,” and it sounds reassuring—even though that word may tell you far less than you think. Now compare that to what those ideas can look like on the ground at a farmers market.
A farmer may not be Certified Organic, but they might grow without synthetic sprays, rotate crops, build their soil, use integrated pest management, harvest the day before market, and drive twenty miles to sell it directly to you.A small livestock farmer may be able to tell you exactly where their animals spend their days, what they eat, and how they're raised.

That context matters. Because the same words we see printed across grocery store packaging can look very different when you're standing ten feet away from the person actually growing your food. This isn't about saying every small farm is automatically better or that certifications don't matter. It's about understanding the difference between a marketing label and an actual farming practice.

At the grocery store, sometimes all you have is the label. At the farmers market, you get to see what's happening on the ground, and that's the difference.

09/15/2026

“But shopping local is more expensive.”

Sometimes it is. But lately I've been thinking a lot about the difference between PRICE and COST.

Price is what shows up on the receipt. Cost is bigger.

How far did that food travel? Who was paid to produce it? How fresh is it? Where does that money go after I spend it? How many meals can I actually make from it?

I'm not suggesting we all start buying every single thing locally. I certainly don't.

I'm suggesting that the cheapest option at the register isn't necessarily the least expensive option when you zoom out.

And sometimes spending a little more with a farmer or small food producer gives you something that's hard to put on a price tag: transparency.

You can ask who grew it. How it was raised. When it was harvested. What's actually in it.

Price matters. But it isn't the whole story.

09/14/2026

Well, it’s been a minute since my last schedule post so I thought I’d try something a little impromptu. I feel a little guilt and falling behind on my own social media when I’m constantly preaching consistency, but sometimes you need a little time off for your health, because in the scheme of things … that’s what matters more.

That being said, I’ve got some good stuff coming! Stay tuned!

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