Customers need to be able to see them and read the labels without bending over or having to move them which means they need to be at a comfortable height and angle. Our first displays were wooden constructions using wine boxes with two display shelves installed at an angle. They were adequate and looked good, but once our jar offerings expanded they were short of display space and wasted too much table space since they couldn’t be stacked.

I have been a fine artist for my entire life but as my vision of where the world was headed caused my art to become darker I found myself longing for something “real”, something tangible and meaningful in a rapidly disintegrating society. Dirt and food are real so I bought a piece of rangeland in Mendocino County, CA. Over the past 19 years my partner and I transformed ourselves into farmers, the farm into a family business, and a small part of the land into a gorgeous, thriving farm. We raise animals in addition to growing a large variety of fruits and vegetables for our main business, canning, which we do in the commercial kitchen we built at the center of the farm.