The Fairy Tale-Part Three

Fun and Beautiful display at Tony Caputo's Market & Deli, SLC, UT

Butcher's Bunches Handcrafted Preserves is a fun company to own!  I do what I love; play with my food!  I literally get to take produce that has been grown by farmers from one end of this state to the other and make it into fruit spreads and preserves that are just bursting with fresh fruit flavor!  Just as though you had just picked them from the garden!

Cease and Desist... To do or Not to do...

Wedding favors by Butcher's Bunches.. Spreading the Love May 15, 2011

As many of you know Butcher's Bunches Handcrafted Preserves has been issued a ceased and desist demand by local Salt Lake Business Amour Spreads.  Beginning operations on November 17th 2011, Amour had a grand gala at Pago, SLC to introduce a line of locally & sustainably sourced marmalade's and other spreads cooked in traditional Copper Pots.  My personal favorite is the Pear Lavender.  I like to purchase local grown produce and I cannot grasp the fact that Oranges, Lemons and pomegranates are truly locally sourced or even red fleshed nectarines. 

Trials and Error

Butcher's Bunches Preserves & Shepherd's Chevre (Photo: Tenatious Lens Photography, SLC, UT)

As a small business owner I face many challenges every day.  Often I wonder why I have chosen to operate a small business in a constantly declining economy where the larger, big box,  "Corporate-America" retailers are out there, literally guzzling the dollars out of small businesses every day.  Many of these corporations are blatently obvious with their community destroying practices, such as WalMart, Sam's Club, Winco, Big Lots, Family Dollar, etc.  These stores import a majority of their products sold from outside of the United States, leaving the small business owner in the dust, literally.

You are bigger than that, Liz . . .

The past week could have easily been called whiplash week for me.  We made the pre-op appointment for Kenneth for next Tuesday and that is weighing on me heavily.  Every day there is a new derogatory little whisper from here or there about Butcher's Bunches.  I know who is saying them.  I know why.  One "friend" went so far as to email me and ask me to take their name & written recommendation off of my website because they now endorse another local jam company.