Samantha Parker

Jam, Jelly and Pickle Making Business Startup Samantha Parker

Jam, Jelly and Pickle Making Business Startup
How to Grow a Million Dollar Success from Home!


In 2008 after my husband lost his auto manufacturing job, we found ourselves in a dire situation, as we were in the middle of planning our youngest daughter's wedding and all. But with the help of a friend, I made my passion for making homemade Jam, Jelly, and Pickle business into reality. We grew the business from local Detroit market to state and then regional and eventually to national level. We passed the million dollar sales mark in 2015. Since then we were contacted by a few name brand companies with purchase offers. But that is not relevant to this book.


I wrote this book to share my knowledge and experience with people everywhere that share the same passion as I do. And to show how they can get started in this business journey right from home and make it a million dollar success eventually, but one word of caution, it will not happen overnight. It will take some hard work and plenty of focus and dedications.

For you to see great success, you need to start by doing these followings:


Start from homeCreate a brand around your productHave a niche that makes you stand out from rest of the crowdFind out what flavors sell the mostCreate a line with no more than 5-7 SKUMarket the product by taste test and word of mouth in local shops and markets.

Well it sounds simple enough I am sure especially as I write this, but for me, the learning curve was a very steep one at first. But my goal is to make sure you don't have the same steep learning curves as I faced.

This book is broken down into Four parts, and I show you:

Part-1 Jam, Jelly Pickle Making Process

What equipment you will needHow the Canning process workVarious types of canning methodsHow to sterilize and seal JarsHow to reprocess and store jarsWhat ingredients you will needActual Jam, Jelly, and Pickle making processFruit Picking ChartFruit Storage ChartFruit pH ChartFruit Yield ChartPasteurization process

Part-2 The Business

9 Steps to Making your passion into a BusinessVarious Legal Business EntitiesHow & Where to Sell your Product lineHow to Price your productsHow to Market and Promote your BusinessHow to package your productsWholesale marketing

Part-3 Legal & Safety Requirements

FDA requirementsState and local LawsLicensing and InsuranceHow to meet the Legal requirementsFood safety trainingApproved recipes and ProceduresWhat is Cottage Food LawsFood Labeling requirementsFood and workplace safety

Part-4 Recipes

How to make your own Pectin15 other delicious Jam, Jelly and Pickling Recipes

In this book I also shared some images, so you get a visual idea of various equipment we use, I also shared a few YouTube videos of various processes, so it is easier for you to understand the individual process.

Okay, let's get started, Good Luck and Enjoy!