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“You look much better when you’re comfy.” – Melissa McCarthy

Each year, we work with a different artist on an original t-shirt design, and we’re excited to announce the arrival of the 2018-2019 vintage! Inspired by one of our favorite ingredients, this stunning peanut plant illustration from Greensboro, NC-based artist H.J. Flint reminds us of our food’s connection to the earth. The cream-colored drawing pops against a royal blue tee, allowing the intricate details of the peanut plant to come to life.

This ultra-soft, ultra-comfy t-shirt feels like you’ve owned it for years the moment you put it on. Available in unisex and women’s cuts, size S-XL.

Made in the USA, sweatshop-free, and WRAP certified.

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Leonardo da Vinci

When we started our #featuredjam series over two years ago, our goal was to share the incredible work of some of our favorite jam makers and offer products complementary to our own. That first year, we selected INNA as our featured maker for the ever-busy month of December, and the response from our customers was positive bordering on ecstatic. INNA sources all of their fruit from organic/sustainable farms within a 150-mile radius of their Emeryville, CA, kitchen and uses only single fruit varietals in each jam, allowing the fruit’s unique essence and subtleties to shine. Their recipes include less sugar than your typical commercial jam, providing just enough sweetness to highlight the fruit flavor. The result is a jam that, as founder Dafna Kory puts it, “tastes like the freshly picked fruit from which it was made, each jar a time capsule of flavor.”

This December, we are honored to feature INNA for the third year in a row, offering their Black Mulberry Jam. The INNA team harvested the black mulberries themselves from a small farm (just 50 trees) in Dunnigan, CA. Because the berries ripen at different stages, the team had to return for multiple pickings. Talk about dedication! The harvest happens mid-summer, and because of the small size of the orchard, this jam is an extremely limited edition product. It’s available only through INNA’s website, their brick and mortar shop, and on our web shop as our December Featured Jam!

Mulberries have a unique flavor and a delicate, soft texture that make comparisons to other fruits difficult. As the farmer who grew INNA’s mulberries explains, “they taste like mulberries!”  In the deft hands of INNA’s small team, the naturally sweet, tart, complex flavor inherent to the mulberries is beautifully intensified, and the lovely texture is maintained, leaving the plump berries with a nice bite.

This delightful jam is the perfect addition to your morning toast and yogurt bowls or dolloped atop warm croissants paired with our Almond Coconut or Chai Spice Nut Butter. Available while supplies last a la carte, in recommended PB&J and AB&J pairings, and in our custom gift boxes.

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” –Jane Goodall

Visit the nut butter section of any given natural foods store, and you’ll find an enormous selection of products proclaiming to be “natural.” However, if you take a closer look, a startling fact arises, most of these products are packaged in single-use plastic, even though a better alternative exists: glass. As a nearly zero-waste business, we are always looking for ways to make our footprint smaller, so the choice to jar in glass is an easy one, especially considering some of the facts about plastic packaging:

• A full 32% of the 78 million tons of plastic packaging produced annually is left to flow into our oceans; the equivalent of pouring one garbage truck of plastic into the ocean every minute. (earthday.org)

• It takes 500-1,000 years for plastic to degrade. (ecowatch.com)

• Virtually every piece of plastic that was ever made still exists in some shape or form (with the exception of the small amount that has been incinerated). (ecowatch.com)

• Plastic chemicals can be absorbed by the body—93 percent of Americans age six or older test positive for BPA (a plastic chemical). (ecowatch.com)

• 40 percent of plastic produced is packaging, used just once and then discarded. (National Geographic)

Since 2013, we’ve sourced our custom glass jars from Arkansas Glass Company. They are recyclable and don’t leach chemicals associated with some plastic containers. The jars are also reusable. They’re the perfect size for on-the-go breakfasts: parfaits, smoothies, overnight oats, and chia puddings. You can use them to store homemade salad dressings and bulk spices, or as cocktail classes. The options are endless!

Of course, nobody is perfect. Our bar wrappers still contain a microscopic layer of plastic. Unfortunately, no food safe compostable and/or recyclable wrapper options for our bars exist, but we are working with packaging companies to change that. Until we find a suitable option, we’ve reduced the amount of packaging each bar uses by 60% compared to the previous version.