There's always something to be thankful for, and this week it's our family-style Thanksgiving Gift Boxes. From cranberry pepper jelly to crispy cheese straws, we've got all your comfort food favorites that family, friends, and clients will be thrilled to receive.
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Our February subscription box was full of our current favorite sweet treats! In fact, we loved it so much that we're adding it for purchase in the Curated Gift Box section of our site: Sweet on the Morning Gift Box.
Let's see what's inside! And if you're a subscriber, remember to tag us @georgiacrafted on Instagram or Facebook when you receive your box!
Haven't subscribed yet? Check out the 1, 3, and 6 month subscription options on our Subscribe page!
Southern Culture - Decatur, GA
With all-organic cobbler peaches this mix makes for a sweet and spot-on hybrid of cobbler and our fluffy pancake/waffle mix. Serve a la mode for an even more authentic cobbler taste.
Find it on our site here: Peach Cobbler Pancake & Waffle Mix
Unicoi Preserves - Sautee Nacoochee, GA
Our interpretation of a childhood favorite. Sun kissed strawberries with a hint of warm vanilla. This spread pairs well with aged white cheddar cheese or your breakfast ham biscuit.
Find it on our site here: Strawberry Vanilla Spread
Blue Ridge Candy Co - Blue Ridge, GA
This dark chocolate toffee is handcrafted using only the freshest ingredients. We combine roasted pecans from south Georgia, sweet creamy butter, and the finest cane sugar to guarantee pure goodness in every bite. The toffee is enrobed in rich Belgian dark chocolate that is 66% pure cacao. Gluten free.
Also a 2016 Flavor of Georgia finalist!
Find it on our site here: Pecan Dark Chocolate Toffee
Rinse Bath & Body - Monroe, GA
Raspberry Drizzle soap balances the sweetness of chocolate with tart raspberries. Although this soap sounds good enough to eat, please refrain and let your skin have the treat!
Find it on our site here: Raspberry Drizzle Soap
January subscription boxes hit our subscriber's doorsteps more than a week ago, so it's time for our month Box Reveal!
Our theme for January was healthy (but still delicious!) food products that you can enjoy, whatever your New Year's Resolutions might be. Let's check out what's inside! And if you're a subscriber, remember to tag us @georgiacrafted on Instagram or Facebook when you receive your box!
Harrison Family Farm, Monticello, GA
This gourmet balsamic vinaigrette is flavored with Meyer lemons and basil, to keep your salad tasting bright and fresh—especially tasty with strong greens like arugula. Also great for cooking and marinating! Of course this dressing is a Georgia-made product, but the balsamic vinegar is imported from the Modena region of Italy, making the dressing authentic and truly gourmet.
Find it on our site here: Meyer Lemon & Basil Balsamic Vinaigrette
Goodson Pecans, Leesburg, GA
One taste of this pecan butter, and you'll be a convert from peanut butter and almond butter. The pecans are grown on the Goodson family orchard in South Georgia. The pecan butter has a silky smooth texture, with toasted pecans for smooth flavor, and the honey granules make it perfectly sweet. Use like you would any other nut butter!
Find it on our site here: Pecan Butter with Honey
Abundtant Love, Canton, GA
If you eat GF, you're in for a special treat this month! Even if you're not gluten-free, this cake in a mug is still a delicious treat. This mix cooks up a single serving of delicious cake, right in a standard-size coffee mug.
Find it on our site here: GF Cake in a Mug Mix
Pure Bliss Organics, Marietta, GA
French Vanilla, almonds, honey, spices... this sweet and filling granola is a classic. It's also vegan and certified organic. Perfect for breakfast, or a snack at any time of day!
Find it on our site here: French Almond Vanilla Granola
That's it for this month! Visit our Subscribe page to join our subscription program—1 month, 3 month, and 6 month options available. Sign up by February 28 to receive the March box!
Happy New Year, Georgians and Georgia lovers! I know you've probably moved past the holidays by now, but we need to take a quick look back for our December Subscription Box Reveal!
If you missed out on the December box, we're taking orders through January 31, so you can get on the bandwagon to receive our February subscription box! Subscribe here: Georgia Crafted Subscription Boxes. 1, 3, and 6 month options available.
Our December subscription box was focused on sweet treats for the holidays. We hope everyone enjoyed these premium artisan-made treats and products from all around our great state of Georgia! Did you share the chocolates, or keep them all to yourself? ;)
Blue Ridge Candy Company, Blairsville, GA
These caramels were a Flavor of Georgia finalist in 2016, and you'll understand why after just one taste. Hand-crafted with premium ingredients in small batches, delicious without being too sweet... we can't say enough good things about these caramels! They're also gluten-free and Kosher.
Order another box of them here: Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramels
Rinse Bath & Body, Monroe, GA
We love Rinse's Pucker Stick lip balms because they are smooth and long lasting, but never sticky. The peppermint flavor comes from peppermint essential oil.
Find this favorite on our site here: Peppermint Lip Balm
Chamberlain's Chocolates, Norcross, GA
This gourmet Sea Salt Caramel Pretzel Bark is hand-crafted in Norcross, GA with the finest quality chocolate. It's a great mix of salty, sweet, and crunchy!
Find it on our site here: Sea Salt Caramel Pretzel Bark
Cleveland Organics, Fort Valley, GA
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Goodson Pecans, Leesburg, GA
These tasty treats are a special blend of sugar and cinnamon covered over pecans, grown on the Goodson family farm in South Georgia. They are addictive!
Find them on our site here (currently sold out!): Cinnamon Sugar Pecans
Our October Georgia On My Mind subscription box includes an incredible collection of 4 Georgia-made products. We curated this box in partnership with the Georgia Department of Tourism. It was listed as a themed Gift Box on our site for the holidays, and it was so popular that it sold out! (Sad that you missed it? Email us at hello@georgiacrafted.com and let us know that we need to reorder!)
Our subscription boxes are a great value at $29.99. You can try out a subscription for just 1 month. Or if you subscribe for our 6 month option, the price drops to just $26.99 per month... wow! To compare, the full retail price of the Georgia On My Mind gift box was $34.99 plus shipping. We really give our subscribers a great deal!
Now, on to the contents of the October subscription box!
The Honey Shack, Homerville, GA
A full-sized 16 oz. jar of pure Gallberry honey from South Georgia. Did you know that Gallberry honey is unique to southern Georgia and northern Florida?
Find it on our site here: Gallberry Honey
Southern Soul Barbeque, St. Simons Island, GA
This large 14 oz. jar of barbecue sauce was a big hit on our site over the holiday season. The sauce is sweet and tangy, with a kick of mustard.... a true crowd pleaser!
Find it on our site here (currently sold out!): Sweet GA Soul BBQ Sauce
French Silver, Marietta, GA
Georgia “On my mind” tea towel, printed onto a lint-free, 100% cotton, unbleached flour sack towel. The towel measures approximately 30"x 30". Great as a kitchen towel or in the bathroom as a hand towel.
Find it on our site here: Georgia On My Mind Towel
and to round it out, a Georgia on my Mind CD filled with amazing Georgia classic songs.
Welcome to the latest edition of Meet the Artisan! We're excited to introduce you to Roger Harrison of Harrison Family Farm. We featured Harrison Family Farm's "Sweet Jasper Heat" Eudora Chow Chow in a recent subscription box. Those of you with Southern roots were already familiar with Chow Chow, I'm sure, but if you're a Southern "transplant" like me, read on to learn more about Chow Chow and how to use it! Plus all the backstory on Roger, his family, and their family recipes!
(Doesn't this family look like fun?!)
I am a ninth generation Jasper County Georgian. My grandmother's side of the family was the Kelleys (the second "e" was later dropped to make it Kelly) who immigrated from Ireland. John Kelley (b. 1630 in Ireland) settled in Virginia, and the family migrated south to Georgia. They settled in Northern Jasper County on what is now Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center, a State of Georgia Nature Preserve. The original cabin is mostly gone now, but when I was a kid, my father and I visited it and brought back a dove-tail beam which served as a fire place mantle in my childhood home.
My 83 year old grandmother and I still operate the company. She is my "Chief of Institutional Knowledge," and has taught me all the recipes, tips, and tricks of making our products in the old-fashioned way.
Although most of our recipes are 200+ years old, and have been made continuously over the generations, we didn't start selling commercially until early 2016. After living all over the country and traveling the world with The Coca-Cola Company, I moved back to the farm to help with my aging and failing 85 year-old grandfather. My undergrad degree is in theatre, and I've had some moderate success in the film/tv/modeling industry booming in Georgia. Like any actor, it's rare to be booked every day of the week, so I started Harrison Family Farm, LLC to fill the down time. Little did I know it would consume my days, nights, and weekends in just 9 months.
It's really hard to pull one product out as the most successful since our products are so unique and each has its own, at times cult-like, following. We define success as making a quality product that is unique in the market—meaning it's not widely available, but is something people love and often remember from years past.
Clearly, our Eudora Chow Chow, has broken all barriers as it is now the largest artisan small-batch chow chow in the Southeastern United States. To go from 0 to light speed in the course of one calendar year is simply remarkable, and speaks to the incredible recipe, quality, and versatility of the product. When we launched it, we marketed it as more than just a condiment/topping for beans or veggies like older generations remember. It's really great paired with meats as well. Emory University's Oxford Campus uses it as a relish on their hot dog bar. The Company Store, in Porterdale, GA serves a Chow Chow Burger, and Bennie's Red Barn, in St. Simons Island, GA serves it as a side with their premium grass fed beef. People have discovered what a great addition it is in southern salads, like potato salad, chicken salad, or egg salad, and substitutes wonderfully for dill relish in deviled eggs.
We make the products just like our ancestors did; local produce, no preservatives, no fillers, and wholesome ingredients. If we were able to reach back into time, and taste the products next to each other, they would be strikingly similar, and we know that because our oldest living relatives and neighbors tell us the products "taste just like mama and grandma used to make." Seeing the smiles on their faces when they taste our family recipe products is truly priceless. Much like music, there is a connection to food that transcends time and space, and triggers multiple senses in the body. We are truly honored and grateful that we can connect people to their past with our products.
We make the products just like our ancestors did; local produce, no preservatives, no fillers, and wholesome ingredients.
We don't want to be so broad in our product offering that we lose the quality for which we have become known. Currently, we offer 6 Gourmet Balsamic Vinaigrettes. We blend authentic imported Italian Balsamic Vinegar, from the Modena Region of Italy, with Georgia Grown produce, like blueberries, Vidalia Onions, Georgia Peaches, Georgia Tomatoes, and Strawberries, to create unique and flavorful dressings and marinades. I anticipate we will launch a low fat Herb Vinaigrette in January to tap into the New Year's Resolution Health Conscious market. Past that, we won't look at new product introduction until the growing/harvest season re-starts in Georgia in the late spring/early summer.
Find Roger and Harrison Family Farms online:
Facebook: harrisonfamfarm
Instagram: harrisonfamilyfarm
www.harrisonfamily.farm
Thank you, Roger!
