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Small batch jams, jellies and pickled products. We are small but a certified food manufacturer. The silo store is always open. Self service and self pay.

10/15/2026

Doing a short run of pear products today. We got some Baja carrots sticks and Kentucky Candy done yesterday with Donna, our part time helper.

Today-----

Pear honey, pear bourbon, pear ginger (we think, low on ginger) and pear vanilla.

These are D'anjou pears which popular locally due to the climate here, Bartletts by comparison usually come out of the west coast, California, Oregon valley and Washington.

D'anjou pears cook a little better than Bartletts do.

We tell people a lot, pear is a neutral flavor, but it carries other flavors very well. The pear bourbon is a lot like peach bourbon, bourbon forward. The ginger pear carries the ginger well and is great with cheeses or morning faire.

The pictures are from previous years when we were allowed to pick them local. After scrubbing, they are cooked generally with the skins for flavor, and then we have a sieve machine that separates the final pulp. We then add seasonings and the jammin' items, can them and into a box.

We certainly have followers for these products, we made them because you asked. It will only be available for a short time.

We will see you this weekend at the Murray Downtown Farmers Market, Saturday from 7-12

10/11/2026

Thank you everyone who came to the Trigg County Hamfest in Cadiz this weekend.

Friday really was a great day. You know we run on seeing people, and we saw a bunch from past years', music was good, hung out with other vendors we don't see much...

Maybe had a couple ham sandwiches... and the weather was great. Paula's favorite time of the year.

Today, Saturday, until 1400 or so.. decent... and then, well it sucked. Walking all the product out to the shuttle van, and then 5 of us pushing the trailer up the hill onto the car hauler... thank you more than you know. We didn't want to sit around until 11 to be able to drive in.

Music was awesome though as we were packing up.

Thanks to everyone who came out.

To the couple who drove 1.5 hours for Kentucky Candy and we had just sold out, despite staying up til midnight making more... We're sorry.

To our Pear honey lady.... pears were ordered for monday and maybe... maybe will have some at the Murray Downtown Farmers Market next week. but middle child is in town from Houston mid week... and she's old enough we can't just tell her, "we're canning today..". ...or... no... no... I like being married.... :)

To my KC Chiefs' fan who stopped by again.... at least you aren't as bad as the Raiders... but that's a pretty low bar...

Again thanks for the hard work of the Cadiz community to put it together and everyone who came out.

Jam on!

10/09/2026

See you tomorrow and Saturday at Hamfest in Cadiz. We are a little more up the hill than usual, they moved everyone up a bit, due to a business that wanted to be open. Same area though. On the west slope between the food trucks on top and the carnival on the bottom.

Friday looks great. In fact, b...e...a...-utiful as Jim Carrey would say in Bruce Almighty....

Saturday looks like trouble in the afternoon....

You might be shopping from behind plastic....

You might be shopping from inside the shuttle van...

We might build an Ark.... idk.

but barring a complete shutdown, we should be there.

We will restock the silo at 1844 Douglas Rd. Murray, KY in the morning. Paula is still working on Kentucky Candy and it's after 9pm, and I'm labeling BBQ Sauce and that too, when it's done.

All orders at www.kentuckyfreshjam.com are out the door. We'll be having a wholesale site sometime next week as we've been asked by several of our nationwide boutique stores. It's for stores only, and screening is required. We are finding we are not doing a great job stocking store shelves due to time constraints and need to be more direct.

Hamfest is alot of fun, they really have a lot of events, and it looks good until 300ish Saturday.

Jam on!

10/06/2026

We will see you this weekend at the Cadiz 50th annual Hamfest Friday and Saturday. We will not be in Murray.

This week, strawberry margarita, strawberry lemonade, Kentucky Candy, Apple Butter, Apple Pie Bourbon Jam, Kentucky Hard BBQ sauce, and...

Blackberry.

Seeded and not seeded. I think we have a long term solution for this to help keep it in our inventory. We work really hard to get all seeds out, we have machines to help separate it. Is it perfect? no, but 99% are gone. Just heads up if you have issues.

The blackberries are pretty flippin' good, by the way.

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Hamfest is run a little differently, in a good way, lots of activities and they are reaching a different clientele. If you haven't been in a while, it's got a little different feel. More festival, less carnival. I think this is our 7th year? After dark about 1/2 of us vendors are still open, many go home. All the activities and rides are going, but many vendors are 1-2 person shows and it's long days.

Some activities, like the rides cost money, but most is free. For food, especially the ham related.... get their early, it doesn't suck... and if you know Robert... that's rule #1.

Stayed up late again last night. Got to spend some early time with the chunk-a-monk. 9 month old little wiggler..

More to come.

10/05/2026

Carrots.... and when animals attack.

10/02/2026

Rabbit hole time... it's late see you tomorrow night at Marshall County Farmers' Market 5-8:30 and in Murray on Saturday.

Good Night.

09/27/2026

Thanks to everyone who came out Saturday to the Murray Farmers' Market and the Paris, TN Arts on the Square. It was nice to see a couple faces we haven't seen in a while.

Picture Taken today...

My tall friend appreciated that she could lean on our booth.

This is our second tall women.... the other a couple years ago in Harrodsburg, KY at the Pioneer Days.

Enjoy the weather... it was a great day.

09/25/2026

Been a long week so far. Last night until midnight, it's after 800pm now.. and still have a couple hours yet.

Today it was finishing up some Kentucky Candy, getting some Mango Pineapple and Apple Cinnamon done.

So update...

We will be at the Murray Farmers' market Saturday as stated. But I reached out early in the week to the Paris-Henry County Arts and Crafts event on a whim.

A couple of our favorite vendors go… and I basically said.. hey, if you want us and someone cancels... I'm your man.

So I will be in Paris, TN Saturday from 9-4pm. Spot 25.

If you've not gone to the show, it leans very art heavy. Lots of handmade craftsman, painting demonstrations and music. It's not corn dogs and 3d prints.

Jam on.

09/23/2026

Midweek thoughts.....

Today's shipments going out the door. We still have about 6 for you folks and a couple stores too.

We have decreased the price of the KY Hard BBQ Sauce from $10 to $9. Same online at at markets.

Paula is doing some Blueberry Pomegranate, Peach Bourbon jam and Strawberry Balsamic this week. In addition to all our others we do almost every week.

The bad news, I'm having to raise the "free shipping limit" on www.kentuckyfreshjam.com from $50 to $60. USPS is up 11% and UPS and Fedex are following suit due to increased fuel prices and labor costs. I'll revisit in the future, but additionally the cost of peanuts, kraft paper and boxes are increasing for the same reasons.

See you in Murray at the Murray Downtown Farmers Market from 7-12pm this weekend.

09/20/2026

Picture was when we first started. We now make more than than most days.
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Thanks everyone who came to Murray yesterday despite the heat and joined us at the Calvert Drive in theater for the Moonlight Market with 40 other vendors. We got to watch You've got mail in the background, and got to see many customers from Calvert area.

Couple things we may be flown passed or not been clear about that came up during the weekend.

1. The buyer show in Frankfort last Friday was for grocery stores like Publix, Kroger, Meier and smaller retailers to consider new products. We got to meet three of our existing Kentucky stores who already carry our stuff who showed up. It was nice to put faces with names/businesses and they were foodies so it was fun.

We'll break that down in the future. Some people said they didn't know we were in stores other than locally. We have sold cases of jam to over 125 stores, 40 or so in Kentucky, three in Canada and one in Belgium. Kentucky Candy and Apple Pie Bourbon is 90% of it. Arizona is our #2 state and we do some private labels for a few small retailers in TX, Kansas, and KY. Our food manufacturer certification with the FDA lets us sell basically anywhere with the right disclosures/paperwork.

2. We will be working on orders this week. We have 8-9 website orders from www.kentuckyfreshjam.com and have a some cases for wholesale stores (like above) due this week. Peach Bourbon, Apple Cinnamon, Mango Pineapple, Blueberry Pomegranate, Apple Pie Bourbon, Kentucky Candy, BBQ sauce... all on the list this week. But it's a priority.

3. To my friend who left the note about the Kansas City Chiefs in the silo... Dr. Seuss, I am a fan....

Do you like
The KC Chiefs?
I do not like them,
Charger-fan-I-am.
I do not like
KC Chiefs, no Reid...
Would you like them
Here or there?
I would not like them
Here or there.
I would not like them
Anywhere.
I do not like
KC in any way.
I do not like them,
and that's all I'll say.

I'm not a Kelce or TS fan either... haters gonna hate.. hate... hate... shake it off.. shake it off....

We are more than blessed, thanks for the support and it's some downtime with the grandchild, Stan the man, before tomorrow and it comes time to...

Jar up!

Stay well.

The stack of jars became a lot as we grew, we sagged our floor joists and had to move the jars to concrete.

Address

1844 Douglas Road
Murray, KY
42071

Telephone

+12707523346

Website

http://www.kentuckyfreshjam.com/

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