Founded in 2004
We love summertime here at RedCamper. So much so we do everything we can to bottle up every ray of sunshine for year round consumption. We celebrate road trips, picnics, place, people and storytelling through a specialty food line called Deliciousness, premier cheeseboard and picnic basket ready handcrafted, small batch preserves and mostardas that are a result of over two decades of home preserving, a county fair blue ribbon and a lifetime of love for small farms, roadside stands and back seat sandwiches.
But our story started many years ago in the back of a pickup truck with a redcamper headed to anywhere. With the spirit of travel and adventure bred into the genes of my parents, Jane and Wayne, they packed up the family, some teepee poles, a bunch of books, loads of film, a few maps, and they headed out for some story making… oh…actually..wait…it started before that..the story started with Gram and Lu, Wayne’s mom and dad, my grandparents, who made travel, a lifestyle, globetrotting around with their black and white flowered suitcases filled with rolled up underwear, coordinating outfits and rolls and rolls of slide film. Their determination to document and share every moment of those experiences with friends and family back home was ingrained deeply after hours of slideshow watching on the floor of their home as a child. But it wasn’t just adventure, it was humor too. A Gram trademark, every slideshow was punctuated by several naked lady slides strategically placed into the show to be sure we were paying attention.
Travel. Be aware. Document. Share. Connect. And make up a great story while you are at it. That’s what RedCamper was born of, and believes in. Our original product was the original 35mm slide tote made of original travel snapshots, (launched in 2004 and ended in 2011), which evolved into the USHwy89 Paper Goods line (2009-2019) inspired by those images of roadtrips and vacations paired with a sense of humor. Gram style. While it might not make sense, it was from those two products that the RedCamper Picnic Supply emerged with the creation of our County Fair Award Winning Deliciousness; and the even newer Good Food Award winning Cherry Fig Mostarda and the Good Food Award winning Cocktail Cherries. Perfect. Life’s journey can be a twisting turning road of adventures.
If there is anything this road trip has taught us, it’s that you gotta have a sense of humor, a dedication to doing things right, a sense of adventure and a pocket knife. But don’t forget to leave that at home when you fly.
Our Values
PRESERVE…HERITAGE, PLACE, IDENTITY, CULTURAL AWARENESS, AND OF COURSE…. SWEET, SWEET FRUIT.
From the beginning RedCamper has been about honoring place, preserving heritage & culture, and building awareness of the unique qualities of every corner of this beautiful earth. With both our product lines we are proud to say everything is original, ethically sourced or manufactured, and thoughtfully created. We aim to be as responsible to our fellow humans and our planet as we possibly can.
IF YOU WANT TO BE THE BEST, SURROUND YOURSELF WITH THE BEST
We have some great relationships with local farmers, especially First Fruits, that provide us the perfect organic fruit & chilies for our Peach, Apple and Pear flavors, and are working on forging new relationships with other fruit growers. All of our spirits partners are best in class local producers, and we humanely and ethically source our spices, and some of our ingredients like limes & jalapeños from developing countries that can certainly use an economic boost. In all cases we use non-gmo ingredients and are working hard to move to a fully organic ingredient list sourced from regenerative and sustainable suppliers. We are 75% of the way there. We support our local economy, but also believe a strong world economy is critical to a positive future for humankind. The rising tide lifts all boats.
DO THINGS RIGHT. SLEEP WELL AT NIGHT.
Handcrafted and small batch have become loose terms used by giant manufacturers now, but we live and breathe it. Every batch of Deliciousness is hand chopped, zested, pitted, squeezed and stirred, than hand poured, jar by jar. 8 years in we still haven’t compromised our ideals of honoring the fruit, and the long journey it’s had to get to us. We believe in making products with care, and with the best ingredients we can source, and use prep and cooking techniques that are specific to the end taste and texture and aesthetic that we believe defines our products as superior to the standard grocery store preserve. We believe in using fruit at its prime and producing with the rhythms of seasons. We believe in crafting a combination of flavors that is unexpected and memorable enough that we become the bar of measurement from the time you taste our recipes, forever forward. We believe in sustainable farming, heritage ingredients, and celebrating the uniqueness of regions through the terroir of their grown fruits and spices. We believe in doing things right. Right for your health, right for our suppliers livelihood, right for the earth, right for the future.
We are proud to be two time recipients of the Good Food Award for our efforts and we adhere by the Slow Food movements morals and principles.