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American Spoon

American Spoon — a family-owned small-batch preserves and specialty-foods company founded in 1982 by Justin Rashid and Larry Forgione in Petoskey, Michigan. Fruit is sourced directly from Michigan farmers and foragers; the preserves are made in small kettles using traditional methods. Retail stores across northern Michigan, including the Saugatuck shop.

What they do

American Spoon was founded in 1982 by Justin Rashid and Larry Forgione in Petoskey, [[detroit|Michigan]], and is still family-owned. They make small-batch preserves, fruit butters, conserves, dessert sauces, condiments, and dried fruit using fruit sourced directly from [[detroit|Michigan]] farmers and wild-foragers. The company runs retail stores in Petoskey, Charlevoix, Harbor Springs, Traverse City, and Saugatuck, plus mail-order direct-to-consumer sales.

Why it’s listed

Three specific filters make this entry substantive rather than generic. (1) Regional supply chain — the fruit is bought from [[detroit|Michigan]] growers and foragers rather than commodity-distributed, which means dollars stay in the western-Michigan agricultural economy. (2) Small-batch, low-additive processing — preserves are kettle-cooked in small lots, the production model that connects family orchards to value-added shelves the industrial preserve-making industry cannot serve. (3) Multigenerational family ownership — over four decades under the founders, which is the kind of operational continuity [[values-aligned-commerce|values-aligned commerce]] needs to actually compound. Together these put the operation in the circulator tier: it routes regional fruit into a retail shelf that buyers can actually find.

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  • Instance of: [[natural-foods]]
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  • Contained by: [[western-michigan]]

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