It all started in 2018 sitting in a cozy coffee shop figuring out what I will do to make an exciting entrance for my first time in the farmers market apart from selling rice. As breakfast was served and we spread jam on a toast my two friends suggested that I could make some jams for the market too.
It was an interesting idea so I did my research and as I walked past many stores I realized that most of them did not have natural fruit jams. I then decided to introduce the jams in the farmers market with two recipes passion and strawberry.
It was interesting to see how everyone was excited to get jams at the farmers market and surprisingly in an hour we sold out. To fulfill the need of people who love to have 100% natural preservative free jams who had to search in far places to get it and can now enjoy it through Essy Jams made me happy.
That marked the beginning of my journey. Every month I modified recipe using variety of fruits, spices and herbs. And every last Saturday of the month during the Farmers market we received more and more compliments and it became something they looked forward to receiving.
In December 2018 one of my high school colleague approached me and asked me to prepare 100 jars of our jams as appreciation gift to their clients. After receiving amazing feedback, I decided to take a serious step in building the product.
We have grown over the years from making jams, to chilies to butters and brittles, we are here to provide a range of organic spreads to your tastebuds. Our organic spreads are handmade produced with so much love by combining flavors in our small little kitchen of my father’s old house in Dar es salaam.
Fruits are locally sourced from small holder farmers and some grown by us from regions in Morogoro, Kilimanjaro, Tanga and Coast region supporting in every way that we can.
They are low sugar 100% preservative free vegan organic spreads made in small batches to maintain quality, color and flavors that when put on a toast may let you finish your jar straight up spoon to mouth.
We are here to narrate the story of the commitments and efforts done by our amazing farmers in every jar consumed and share the beauty our beautiful blessed country Tanzania has to offer…
Help us narrate this story… With Love, Essy
We take full control of the production and supply chain to ensure that our consumers eat right. We are hands on and process raw ingredients from owned farms and trusted small holder farmers that exclusively involved in organic practices. From farm to jar only freshly ripe fruits are handpicked with so much love to create our organic spreads.
I spend hours in the kitchen of my father’s old house to create classic and unique flavors of the organic spreads. The aha eureka moments are speculated right here. I’m a foodie and if my taste buds dance then that’s it.
Canning is the most crucial step in our spreads making. Jars are cleaned, hot filled and there after undergo hot water canning. This procedure is done to increase shelf life of our spreads and sanitize our jars so that our spreads do not go bad.
All of our organic spreads are handcrafted in small batches to maintain quality, colors and flavors. We skip pectin and other artificial preservatives resulting to a runnier texture than normal but tastier and healthier jam that you can eat straight outta jar.
