by Aaron Goodier
March 2014

Across the entrance to Sidehill Farm, atop a shelf decorated with an array of marmalades and jams, is an old, double-ended paddle with holes drilled through either side. This is what was used to stir the jam in the early days—no longer in use, as Kelt Naylor quickly let us know. We could see the more modern process through the kitchen window, as an employee wielded a rather less homespun-looking implement to stir a steam kettle filled with boiling pear paste, its identity obvious from the hot sweet smell that filled the building. In mere weeks, a new, self-stirring kettle will be put to use, once they make the move to their new facility—though the old kettle, and the manual stirring, will have its place there too.

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