Identity and pack

The name came to us on the drive back from the first pick up at the farm. Having experienced enough use, and overuse, of the word "good" out there in the natural space, we stumbled on "goodness" as an even better, and more evolved form. Evoking something deeper and more soulful, "goodness" is a word that speaks to the essence of our product: the primest of ingredients, sourced locally and organically, blended and made by hand with care in small batches for the sweetest and boldest flavors, all built around a local foodshed economic development impact component. (Interestingly, since our launch in 2011, we have seen the word "goodness" picked up and used almost to an extreme.)

Brand elements

The packaging and brand elements were conceived out of the place in large part. The Okanagan Valley, where our tomatoes are grown, was famous for it's canning of fruit (stone fruits) and tomatoes in the early 1900s, pre industrialized food. We wanted to evoke this "time-gone-by" affect, when food was simpler and more pure. The design cues the sensibilities of a 1920s grocery store, from the specialized fonts, craft paper and letterpress printed labels, to the glass jars and hand-applied lid bands. A wholly unique approach to our marketing strategy was to brand the season's product as a "vintage," not unlike wine, to celebrate the unique expression of the season's crop and ingredients, and the product's specialness and limited availability.

Point of sale and collateral

Continuing the theme of the brand, we drafted design off of early advertisements with their busy and expressive qualities! This gave us the opportunity to go long-form, in the opposite direction of modern advertising, where everything is crystallized into lowest common denominator soundbites, and belabor the ingredients and flavors, farmer stories, nutritional benefits, ingredients(long form, too), and just about anything else we thought people would read.

Digital / Social

We developed a modern outreach strategy for this "harkening back" brand, with a website that fed a Twitter feed and Facebook page. Once word got out locally, the social foodie channels were abuzz, which all served to merely quicken the diminishment of our limited inventory (1200 lbs).

Production

Some production images, as we sourced, procured, blended, tasted, cooked, co-packed, shipped...and slept little.

Farmers Markets

While famous for their lengthy wait-lists, the two major winter markets in Seattle — Ballard and University — accepted us immediately on the basis of our product concept and its relevance to their mission of developing local food systems. We designed and built our booth, merchandised and sampled like crazy, met a ton of the coolest market folks you could imagine, and sold out of our last jar 5 weeks after starting.