St Joseph’s Abbey

Jammin jammin and I hope you like Jammin to. Best Jam around. Been driving wife crazy ever since I tasted last year. I don’t even usually like Jams, but this stuff I can’t get enough. So we finally made it back to area and I’m loaded up for the winter now. Just hope the wife n kids don’t find my hiding spot.

The landscape was absolutely breathtaking. My husband and I stopped through here on our anniversary weekend, and it was stunning. We were able to go inside the church to sit and say a prayer, and the gift shop had a lot to offer. They have the Trappist products in the shop if you’d like to buy any! It’s nothing you’d spend a day at, but definitely beautiful and sacred enough to stop by.

Saint Joseph’s Abbey is a community of Trappist monks living a ‘contemplative life of work and prayer.’ They offer information on how to become a monk, offer retreats and information on how you can come by to visit, check out their writings, access excerpts from the abbey’s monastic forebears, offer a selection of their hand-​made preserves, as well as shopping at the Holy Rood Guild that provides fine tailoring of liturgical vestments/​chasubles/​copes/​stoles/​dalmatics/​funeral sets/​albs/​plain vesture/​insense/​linens. I am a huge fan of their preserves — they are known to continue a traditiion of refining their recipes and techniques in producing each batch of their preserves. They make each batch in accordance to the monastic tradition of excellence; fruit is harvested at the peak of freshness. They have a variety of flavors: apricot, apricot-​pineapple, blackberry seedless, blueberry, boysenberry seedless, burgundy wine, cherry, concord grape, damson plum, elderberry, ginger preserve, hot pepper, Kadota fig, lemon marmalade, peach, cranberry pepper, mango pepper, pomegranate, port wine, quince, red currant, red raspberry with seeds and without seeds, rhubarb-​orange, rhubarb-​strawberry, Seville orange, sherry wine, strawberry, sweet orange marmalade, and cranberry conserve. My favorite is the strawberry as it contains two kinds of strawberries — one for the taste, and one for its texture. I love the chunks of strawberries throughout — it’s fresh, it’s lovely, and great to use for sandwiches and all your jam needs. Love love LOVE! :D
+Strawberry preserves: D

The closest thing to heaven here on earth! Absolutely beautiful!