Georgia Jams, LLC
Specialty Food Artisan
About
We don’t actually make jams, jellies, or preserves. Our product is considered a “fruit spread” as the brix, or sugar content doesn’t meet the minimum requirement for Department of Agriculture definitions for jam, jelly, preserves, marmalade, or fruit butter.
We craft all of our spreads with the best of the season’s harvest, about 15 flavors throughout the year. We proudly support Georgia farmers by sourcing our fruit locally. By starting with the highest quality, sun ripened fruit directly from our local farms, we are able to make low sugar fruit spreads that taste simply amazing. We don’t believe in straining, so if the fruit has edible seeds so does the spread. Everything in our kitchen is done by hand, from processing fruit, to pouring and capping, and labeling. We keep our ingredients simple so the fruit stays all the forefront. You'll recognize all of the ingredients on the label, that's a promise.
Georgia Jams contain no additives, preservatives, artificial colors, or artificial flavors. We produce Georgia Jams in a Department of Agriculture certified kitchen in Williamson, GA. Georgia Jams are naturally gluten free, nut-free, vegan, and vegetarian (some contain honey).
Programs and Partners
Location
Williamson, GA
Manager
Lori Bean, the founder of Georgia Jams, is classically trained pastry chef, graduating from Florida Culinary Institute in 2008. She made her way back to Georgia soon after pastry school and started dabbling in preserving that summer. Her dad gave her a copy of the Ball Blue Book (the handbook on canning and preserving), his grandmother’s old canning tools, and a little guidance to set her off in the right direction. The first batch of jelly was made from muscadines from a friend's vine, and it was not a success. Those early batches left lots of room for improvement. Learning from her mistakes, she started producing batches worth eating. That “worth eating” product quickly developed into a line of low-sugar fruit spreads that will change your idea of what jam should be.
Georgia Jams has received recognition from national awards including, Garden and Gun Magazine's Made In the South Award for Habanero Peach Spread, and a Good Food Award for Lemon Ginger Spread. Georgia Jams is a 2023 finalist in the Good Food Awards with Muscadine Spread and Apple Pie Spread. Vidalia Onion Spread earned a finalist spot in the 2022 Flavor of Georgia Contest, and Georgia Scorcher Pepper Spread has been selected as a finalist in the 2023 Flavor of Georgia Contest.
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