Blake Hill Preserves is an English fruit preservatory in Vermont creating innovative sweet, savory and spicy jams, marmalades and condiments for the modern pantry. A family business owned by Vicky and Joe, we combine three generations of preserve-making skills with innovative yet super elegant flavors and the finest ingredients for health-conscious customers.
Our collections include a bespoke Cheese Pairing range designed with award-winning cheese makers for pairings from classic cheddar to big creamy blues. Our exquisite Botanical Jams feature wild flowers from our Vermont meadows and slow infusions to capture the freshness of our botanicals. Newest editions are our Savory and Spicy Pantry which includes fresh chilis for big flavor jams perfect for glazing, grilling and roasting, and our Naked Jams which are 100% pure fruit and no added sugar.
Our passion for making the finest jams is matched by our passion for community. We strive for Blake Hill to be a force for good by offering a diverse, positive work environment; strong compensation levels and benefits; buying local to support fellow businesses; donation programs to support community organizations and help good food be available for all; and be an environmentally sustainable business through efficient energy and minimum waste policies.
Blake Hill’s sweet, savory and spicy jams have garnered multiple wins at the international Specialty Food Association’s SOFIs, the US Good Food Awards, and the World Marmalade Awards, and we are available nationwide at specialty food stores, and served on the plate and cheese board at restaurants and other fine establishments.
Growing up in England, Vicky spent childhood summers on farms and foraging with her family for the finest fruits to make jam for a pantryful of preserved treats for enjoyment year round - a family tradition handed down through generations of sustainable living from the land. Joe grew up 1,400 miles away in Gibraltar - a British colony on the tip of the Iberian peninsula, with a Spanish, North African and Italian cooking heritage, and a natural intuition of the unique characters and best uses for a wide range of spices. Add to this their ten years working and traveling throughout Asia, South America and the Middle East before settling in the US, Blake Hill embodies a unique blend of preserve making traditions with a deep love and appreciation of flavors around the world.
Blake Hill is not just a preserves company, it is where we live - an 1800s farming property nestled in the mountains surrounding the tiny village of Grafton Vermont, population 600, and voted one of New England’s prettiest towns. Settling here in 2005, we reclaimed an old sheep barn for our home and started enjoying simple country life, including making jams from the abundant wild berries surrounding our farmhouse. One late summer day in 2009, a friend snuck a jar of our homemade Wild Blackberry and Apple jam to Grafton’s Village Store and won our first order. Quickly selling out, we replenished their stock, and Blake Hill Preserves was born!
While adding the job of part-time preserves maker to already busy full time careers in New York City made for an incredibly busy few years, Blake Hill Preserves quickly flourished. Weekends were spent delivering jams to stores, running our booth at local Farmers Markets, visiting farms for more produce, and making jam to replenish stock. Our home kitchen became an 18 hour a day commercial jam making space, and each room of our farmhouse a separate warehouse space for jams, marmalades or chutneys. However we could not be happier!
While our previous jobs provided many exciting opportunities working around the world, we never had a more appealing career choice than deciding to become Full Time Preserve Makers in Vermont! In 2012 we built Blake Hill’s first Preserves facility in Grafton, and orders quickly increased from a few cases to a pallet or more. We developed our close relationships with some of Vermont’s finest cheese makers and bakers, collaborations we enjoy to this day. In 2014 we thought it would be fun to test our jams against some of the world’s very best and were thrilled to win our first US Good Food Awards, take Gold at The World’s Marmalade Awards, and catch the attention of luminaires such as Bobby Flay and Martha Stewart. An exciting start to our new career!
We quickly realized Blake Hill Preserves needed an even larger Kitchen so built our new facility in beautiful Windsor Vermont in 2016. We also opened our first Specialty Preserves Shop where we provide tastings of over 40 varieties of sweet, savory and spicy jams, and host occasional cooking classes. In 2020 we launched our hugely successful Cooking with Jam series creating recipes that help make simple dishes special with a jar of Blake Hill jam.
Our Jam Journey Today
We are now sold at some of the nation’s finest specialty food stores and our quality continues to be recognized with major award wins and media coverage every year. We believe our success is because we still conduct everything we do as true artisans. Our team of talented preserve makers still make everything by hand; we focus on only the finest ingredients; cherish our local farmer relationships; and still farm and forage select ingredients at Blake Hill Farm for a taste of home. We hope you love our sweet, savory and spicy jams as much as we enjoy making them.
Introducing our amazing team at Blake Hill - the wonderful people who make Blake Hill special, providing professional jam love in everything they do.
Owners, Vicky & Joe ahead of a Busy Day
Kitchen Team with fav jams
Lindsay, head of jam sales and experience
Special Ops Team finishing our picnic area
Jessica, our jam photographer and social guru
Chef Aric with our sparkling jam kettles
Blake Hill at the Cheesemakers Festival
Sydney, our Shop Manager in our Shop Gardens
Liv & Jenny Cooking with Jam
Andrew, mechanical guru and labeller of all jams
Keegan, keeper of the warehouse and fruit
Jessica shooting jam
Kitchen Team ready for action
Bess patrolling while we Forage
Noralee, Chef & in-house green thumb
Chefs Noralee & Catie picking gooseberries
Special Ops caring for jam
Brand Ambassadors: Peggy, Kallah and Sydney
Lindsay at Cooking with Jam
Team Blake Hill Outside our Shop
Blake Hill’s sweet, savory and spicy jams have multiple Gold medal wins at the international Specialty Food Association’s SOFIs, the US Good Food Awards, and the World Marmalade Awards. Blake Hill is also the first preserve maker in the world to win Gold at the SOFIs, the US Good Food Awards and the World Marmalade Awards - all in the same year.
Because we love our new Botanical jams so much, perhaps our proudest moment is launching these special new jams and winning both the US Good Food Awards and Best New Product at the SOFIs within just a few months of launch.
Blake Hill’s bespoke Cheese Pairings have also won the US Good Food Awards and the World Marmalade Awards, and Blake Hill’s marmalades are the first US-made marmalades to win Gold at The World Marmalade Awards, with seven Gold medal wins and two SOFIs now under their marmalade-belt.
Not to be outdone, Blake Hill’s savory offerings include our chutneys that are the first chutneys to ever win at the US Good Food Awards, now winning in consecutive years. Our sweet, savory and spicy ranges seem to love competing amongst themselves!
Visit us in our Specialty Preserves Shop at Artisan’s Park, Windsor, Vermont. Home to the whole Blake Hill team and Specialty Preserves Kitchen where our award-winning sweet, savory and spicy jams, marmalades and condiments are crafted just for you.
With over 40 varieties of sweet, savory and spicy jams to try, get swept into an incredible tasting experience! Our 7 collections include our Botanical jams infused with edible flowers; the incredible bold and hot chili flavors of our Savory and Spicy Pantry; a wide range of bespoke jams crafted for perfect Cheese Pairings; and our unique Naked Spreads for those seeking to enjoy the finest jams without any added sugar. Let us also craft beautiful custom gifts for you and your loved ones, and we can even ship them for you or to you!
Also have fun peeking into our Specialty Preserves Kitchen where every Blake Hill jam is created and made. You may hear our Preserve Makers cheer as they complete a batch of jam, and don’t forget to give them a special wave!
Blake Hill Specialty Preserves Shop:
Open Daily 10am - 5pm
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Artisans Park, 60 Artisans Way, Windsor, Vermont 05089 Safe Sampling available, mask available to ensure the safety of you, other customers, and our team.
(802) 674-4529
shop@blakehillpreserves.com
Blake Hill Specialty Preserves Shop:
Open Daily 10am - 5pm
Artisans Park
60 Artisans Way
Windsor, Vermont 05089
Phone: (802) 674-4529
Email: shop@blakehillpreserves.com
Safe Sampling available, mask available to ensure the safety of you, other customers, and our team.
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Blake Hill's modern offerings of sweet, savory and spicy preserves, marmalades and condiments are available wholesale to fine retail and food establishments across the US featuring our Botanical Jam Collection, Cheese Pairing Collection, Savory & Spicy Pantry, Naked No-Added-Sugar Jams, Artisan Preserves and Fine Marmalades.
We offer our preserves in 10oz jars, mini 1.5oz jars, and stunning Gift Boxes, as well as Food Service one and five gallon containers for those who love incorporating a lot of Blake Hill's special jam in their business.
Please contact lindsayobar@blakehillpreserves.com for more information on our product offerings and special wholesale programs to support your business.
We also welcome you to visit our online wholesale page hosted by Faire. Creating an account on Faire is free and they often provide special offers when signing up!
