If a food didn’t fit anywhere else, this is where you’ll find it. And one day, the olive oil,
pickles and syrup may all graduate to pages of their own.
Gormly’s is a small family business located in northern Vermont. From the beginning the company decided to make only products that are 100% natural with the finest ingredients available. Gormly’s looks to the abundance of Vermont's resources for its inspiration.
It’s a long-standing Yankee tradition that the best, most delicious products come from using the finest ingredients, prepared with care. As a small family-owned business Gormly’s is able to achieve a level of quality worthy of the finest gourmets, at affordable prices. Only the finest ingredients make it into Gormly's products, inspired by the flavors and resources of Vermont.
Gormly receives at least two calls a week from people wanting to know where they can buy more of its pancake mix. The secret – Gormly’s fresh mills the grains for each batch and use only all natural ingredients and real fruit and nuts. The fresh milled flour blend produces a pancake that is not only light and fluffy, but also moist.
With award-winning Maple Syrup, Maine Maple Products Inc. is simply a great place to buy all your maple products. If you are looking for pure maple syrup, maple candy, sugar, cream or any products related to maple syrup you can be sure to get the best quality.
In 1993, Marc and Hélène Larivière of St-Zacharie, Quebec, bought a small business in Maine called Maine Maple Products, Inc. However, the family’s roots in maple syrup go back much further.
Hélène's grandfather, Napoléon Larivière, began making maple syrup in Maine in the early 1900's. He operated a small sugar camp in Big Six Township; a remote area nestled in the northwest corner of Somerset County near the Canadian border. Despite the many changes which have taken place over the years, the Larivière's continue to make maple syrup from the same area.
Marc and Hélène’s sons now produce maple syrup from a grove of 43,000 trees, with the help of the next Larivière generation. Marc and Hélène continue to oversee operations at the packaging facility.
Everybody has a pickle story or a pickle memory. Pickle-Licious carries on the legacy of not only selling pickles, but creating pickle memories and stories. Pickle-Licious is also a member of the Jersey Fresh Farmers Markets Association.
In 1991, Robyn Brown-Samra took the first step towards realizing her dream of owning her own business. The logical first step was to open a booth at a flea market.
In her words, "...as a Jewish kid from Jersey, I was pretty much raised on pickles and bagels. I felt confident pickles would be a runaway seller."
At first, Robyn sold pickles in New York City, at local fairs and markets throughout the metropolitan area. She built a loyal clientele there. Robyn recalls, "Customers used to tell us that they walked up and down the street fair salivating, searching desperately for our booth. We sold out every single weekend."
Stonehouse California Olive Oil’s organically-farmed olive grove, Silver Ridge, is located in Oroville, California. The company’s 80 year old trees grow in the beautiful foothills just East of Chico, at the edge of the Table Mountain. Oroville is known for both olive groves and stunning spring wildflowers. Stonehouse trees produce Mission, Manzanillo & Barouni olive varietals.
Stonehouse California’s extra virgin House Oil (also know as Silver Medal Blend) is a blend of several varieties, mainly Mission, Manzanillo, Sevillano, Ascolano, and Arbequina. The company blends our oil to achieve a bright, medium bodied, grassy, fruity olive oil, suitable for all uses: sautés, vinaigrettes, marinades, finishing oil, or simply for dipping with a fresh baguette.
The company’s California extra virgin olive oil has won many prestigious awards, including gold, silver and bronze medals in the annual L.A. County Fair, which hosts the largest olive oil competition in the world. So, when you purchase a bottle of Stonehouse California Olive Oil, you’re literally buying one of the best olive oils in the world.
Olive harvest begins in October of each year and ends in January/February, weather permitting. Fruit is crushed within 24 hours of picking, to insure the highest quality oil, as olives are technically stone fruit and the quality of the fruit will begin to deteriorate the longer it sits before crushing. Stonehouse typically begins harvest at the beginning of November, when the fruit is still green, and crush through January, as the olives ripen to black, so that we are able to obtain oil that reflects the full spectrum of flavors--from the fresh, grassy, early oil to the soft, buttery, late harvest oil. The company then carefully blends the oils to capture the best qualities from each stage. Depending on the year, Stonehouse may also offer an early harvest oil, Olio Nuovo, as well as a late harvest oil.
