About Naked Jam: Our Story & Heritage

Naked Jam was born out of a deep passion for seasonal ingredients and traditional artisan jam-making. Inspired by my childhood in Wales, where my mother served as cook to a retired Colonel with an extensive kitchen garden and exotic fruit hot-house. learned early on the beauty of working with nature. From foraging for rosehips, sloes, and rowanberries in a sustainable way to winning an award at the 2011 Marmalade Awards, the core of Naked Jam has always been about bringing out the absolute best flavour in every single jar.

Every season brings a new opportunity to stir the imagination, whether it is bright citrus in January or late-autumn raspberries capturing the last rays of summer sun. We pride ourselves on using local, seasonal, and often foraged ingredients combined with time-honoured cooking methods. By channelling creative flavour combinations and respecting nature’s timing, we craft unique, small-batch preserves that let you taste a little burst of sunshine all year long.

I learned how to forage for flowers and fruits in a way we would now label ‘sustainable’. Whether collecting rosehips, sloes, blackberries, or rowanberries, we harvested only what we could reach easily – everything else was for birds and animals. At Christmas, I made gifts of jams, jellies and chutneys using ingredients from the garden and hedgerows, bottling and labelling as I went and learning that you can only make the best with the best.

My mum is my inspiration, a woman intent to get the best out of food, to give us the delight of her pallet and her cooking. She not only passed down her cook books but a love and passion for food, working with seasons and wild fruit.

It’s these fruit seasons that inspire my taste buds to dance, from oranges in January to autumn raspberry’s that capture the last of the summer sun. As I pick them from the bush I can imagine tasting that fresh burst of sunshine in a layered cake in November.

But ultimately I am inspired by my taste imagination capturing a season in a jar. The fruit changes as the seasons unfold so I channel my imagination and I use them to create unique recipes.