Hello, Hillsdale!
We have moved our production from Craryville to Hillsdale. Officially just before Christmas, but our first full production day was this past week. Seems a fitting spot to land, as our name, after all, means hills.
Our new kitchen is in the beautiful HGS Home Chef, a gorgeous coral pink Victorian renovated by the amazing Matthew White, that opened Labor Day 2015. Perched on a hill overlooking the hamlet, Home Chef has an upstairs and a downstairs teaching kitchen; we are upstairs, making for a wonderful, airy treehouse-like feel.
Our new kitchen is perfect and we are grateful to have a space so in line with our own aesthetic. And bringing production there is fitting indeed, as Matt’s Hillsdale General Store was our very first venue.
Moving into a commercial space allows les collines to be sold outside of New York State– hence now we are also in stores in Massachusetts and Connecticut…who knows where les collines is headed next?
With Alex at the juicer (I think she was out on a food run when I shot this!) and me manning the stove, we produced eight quarts of Meyer lemon juice, steamed four quarts of quince juice, and made three batches of jelly: Meyer lemon rosemary, plum (mixed Shiro & red sugar juices, lovely), and the very last, sniff, 2015 crabapple.
Change, growth, and the idea that is les collines continues to prove greater than the sum of her parts, xo
That kitchen looks beautiful. Congratulations on the move! Look forward to trying the Meyer lemons.
The expansion of les collines is so exciting! Now these lovely luxuries are available to many more lucky people. Just enjoyed a breakfast treat of date preserves on Italian bread toast. Great way to start the day with a smile.
Thank you, Mary! We appreciate the good words, and so glad to hear you like the date preserve…a new flavor in development, for which you kindly agreed to be an official taster 🙂 Not an easy job, but someone has got to do it….