Food Company Of The Month TEXT
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Kathy’s Kitchen
A little bit about us:
Kathy’s Kitchen is owned and operated by Daryl and Kathy Keylor in Virginia, IL. The art of preserving the produce from the garden and the gatherings from nature grew from necessity, to a hobby and then to a business. Old recipes from family and friends are the basis for the “just like Grandmas” taste in every jar.
For many years (over 30) my hobby has been to enter the preserved items in competition and have won a sizeable quantity of ribbons and trophies at the Illinois State Fair. The Blue Ribbon Chips are a sweet pickle that are named Blue Ribbon because they have won so many at the State Fair.
When my husband and I decided to build the production kitchen and sell commercially, we began with the intent of preserving only fruits and vegetables we either raised or gathered ourselves, but the business has outgrown our capabilities, although we still do grow as much as we can ourselves.
We have found that the real cornerstone to quality in the jar begins with quality ingredients. We use fresh fruits and vegetables and no added flavorings or fillers. We use only pure natural sugar for sweetening. Actual spices, not flavorings or extracts are the visible signs that the taste of our product is the real thing. We make about 100 different items, but only around 60 in quantities to wholesale.
Some of our products are described below:
True Chili Sauce is cooked down to a rich consistency. You’ll find Kathy’s Kitchen Chili Sauce is all you expected, no thickeners.
The Cinnamon Apple Jelly is an original recipe which blends two flavors that naturally go together (apple and cinnamon) into one great jelly.
The Vidalia Onion Relish is another recipe developed by Kathy’s Kitchen. It is definitely one of our most popular items. (Now our biggest problem is getting enough made while the Vidalia Onions are available.)
The Sweet Pepper Relish came about one year after a bumper crop of peppers, and was so well received it became a regular on our list of products.
The Sweet Pepper Jelly recipe was developed after many customers requested it. We make both red and green, depending on what color peppers we’re picking. You will notice that our pepper jelly is the natural color of peppers, no artificial coloring. It also has the full flavor of peppers, not just a bit of water with a few pieces of pepper. We use only the real juice of freshly squeezed peppers to make our pepper jelly.
As each of our ingredient labels states, Daryl and I put “a lot of hard work and pride” in our products. The word is spreading, business is growing, and right now wholesale to various stores wanting to specialize in “Homemade Quality” surpasses the retail.
Kathy’s Kitchen
201 N. Pitt
Virginia, IL 62691
Ph: 217-452-3035
Email: kkitchen@casscomm.com
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Agribusiness Company Of The Month TEXT
Ag Buy Co.
AG BUY CO is an Illinois Corporation that specializes in selling only the finest and most durable brands of livestock equipment manufactured all over the world. We import from and export to all continents of the world different brands of livestock equipment. For example we will import a line of fans from Holland for sale here in the United States and around the world. We will also sell a brand of pig feeders made here in the United States and export them all around the world.
We can drop ship from the manufacturer direct to the end customer and we can also gather the equipment together in one location for loading into a container to save on shipping costs. This is regardless of were the point of manufacture is or where the order is being shipped to. We offer over 400 different lines of manufacturers but will always recommend the brand of equipment with best features and lowest long range operation cost to provide our customers the best bottom line of any farm.
AG Buy Company
303 Carlinville Plaza P.O. Box 258
Carlinville, Illinois 62626-1189
Phone: 217/854-8806
Fax: 217/854-9727
Email: agbuyco@agbuyco.com
Websites: www.agbuyco.com
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