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For press inquiries, please email info@realpickles.com or call (413) 774-2600.

  • Fermentation meets cooperation: Real Pickles supports and supplies the regional food system | Daily Hampshire Gazette | March 23, 2024
  • Local Highlight: Real Pickles | Old Creamery Co-op | January 31, 2024
  • Real Pickles founder passes torch to new general manager in Greenfield | Greenfield Recorder | November 9, 2023
  • Locals among food award finalists | Greenfield Recorder | January 12, 2024
  • Real Pickles is doing real fine, marks 20 years in business in Greenfield | Masslive (January 31, 2022)
  • Worker-owned pickles company celebrates 20 years | WWLP (December 13, 2021)
  • Transforming vegetables via fermentation | Greenfield Recorder (September 9, 2021)
  • Slow Living Summit 2020 – Panel: Cooperative Ownership | Strolling of the Heifers: YouTube (July, 6 2020)
  • Real Pickles Garners Two Awards | Greenfield Recorder (January 24, 2020)
  • Four local food producers capture national awards | Greenfield Recorder (January 17, 2019)
  • Minimum wage will rise to $12 an hour in Massachusetts on Jan. 1 | Mass Live (December 24, 2019)
  • Of the Earth: Fermenting visions of a long life | Greenfield Recorder (November 27, 2018)
  • Pickle Power: Can fermented food fight off colds? | Daily Hampshire Gazette (October 9, 2018)
  • UMass scientists partner with Real Pickles | Greenfield Recorder (September 27th, 2018)
  • Profile: Real Pickles | Slow Money Blog: Connecting local food entrepreneurs with investors (August 24, 2018)
  • Can This Small Town Lead America in Fighting the Opioid Crisis? | OZY (April 18, 2018)
  • How the Coop Grows Sustainable Businesses | Park Slope Food Coop Linewaiters' Gazette (March 29, 2018)
  • A Mission Driven Pickling Company Reached Their Direct Public Offering Goal in Less Than Two Months, This is Where They Are Now | Cutting Edge Captial Blog (March 15, 2018)
  • Getting on the Ballot: What we’ll be Voting on in 2018 | Valley Advocate (January 2, 2018)
  • Winners of 2017 Massachusetts Sustainable Business of the Year Awards | MassLive (November 29, 2017)
  • Real Pickles | To Market Magazine (Sept 23, 2017)
  • Real Pickles DPO: How Employees Raised Half a Million Dollars to Buy a Business | Medium (July 13, 2017)
  • The Many Faces of Employee Ownership | B the Change Magazine (Mar 31, 2017)
  • Pickles to the People: Creating a Community Around Fermentation | Edible Pioneer Valley (October 8, 2016)
  • Grown Locally: CISA: Real Pickles & Artifact Cider | Connecting Point  (February 17, 2016)
  • Local Pickle Maker Real Pickles Wins National Award | Greenfield Recorder  (January 24, 2016)
  • Real Pickles Lauded by Jobs Board | Greenfield Recorder (December 2, 2015)
  • Boston Fermentation Festival Brings the Funk | Craving Boston  (October 18, 2015)
  • Case Study Business Conversion: Real Pickles | Project Equity (April 2015)
  • Some Choose To Keep Their Cash In Their Neighborhood | New England Public Radio  (July 17, 2014)
  • Our First Year as a Co-op | USDA Rural Cooperatives Magazine  (July/August 2014 - page 30)
  • How to Go Public Without a Stock Exchange | Bloomberg Businessweek  (June 5, 2014)
  • When Workers Become Owners: Real Pickles charts an unconventional course | The Valley Advocate  (May 14, 2014)
  • The Passion of Pickling | WNPR (February 11, 2014)
  • Gone Sour: A Greenfield business keeps up with demand | Many Hands  (Fall 2013 - page 44)
  • Seeking Capital, Some Companies Turn to ‘Do-It-Yourself I.P.O.’s | The New York Times  (August 1, 2013)
  • Green Hero of the Month: July Heroes – Growing in Community | The Recorder  (July 10, 2013)
  • A ‘Real Pickle’ for workers | USDA: Rural Cooperatives  (July/August 2013)
  • The Power of Co-ops | Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont  (Summer 2013)
  • Business etc: Real Pickles now worker owned | The Republican  (May 20, 2013)
  • The Care and Feeding of Small Business | The New York Times  (May 13, 2013)
  • Real Pickles in Greenfield offering coop shares | The Republican  (March 5, 2013)
  • Greenfield MA Pickling Company Goes Co-op | New England Public Radio News  (March 4, 2013)
  • New England Farmers Union: A Fermentation Celebration | Farming, The Journal of Northeast Agriculture  (March 2013)
  • Real Pickles Seeks Real Paradigm Shift | Montague Reporter  (February 28, 2013)
  • Area food businesses change ownership recipe | The Recorder (February 27, 2013)
  • Annual Co-op Show | WHMP: The Bill Newman Show 10.26  (October 26, 2012 - RP at minute 28)
  • How to preserve your own vegetables | Boston Globe  (August 8, 2012)
  • Locavores turn to fermenting to preserve their veggies | Boston Globe (August 8, 2012)
  • Perfect Pickles | Cape Cod and Islands NPR Station: The Local Food Report with Elspeth Hay  (July 12, 2012)

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Our Small Batch Organic Dilly Beans are back! They Our Small Batch Organic Dilly Beans are back! They're snappy and tender, packed with fresh dill and garlic. Perfect for snacking straight from the jar, sneaking into lunch boxes, or dressing up your favorite salad or happy hour cocktail. We can’t stop eating them and we think you’ll love these dillies all day long! Find these small batch favorites in select stores or on our website while supplies last.
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We’re so excited to join Monte Belmonte for the We’re so excited to join Monte Belmonte for the March for the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts this November! Right now, many of our neighbors are struggling to put meals on the table. With cuts to SNAP benefits and the rising cost of living, hunger is a growing reality for families everywhere. Every dollar raised helps the Food Bank provide two nutritious meals for our Western Mass neighbors. Together, we can help. Join us or donate to support our team’s efforts to build a better food system for all!

Link in Bio: http://engage.foodbankwma.org/goto/Real_Pickles_Team

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Have you ever stopped to wonder why Real Pickles f Have you ever stopped to wonder why Real Pickles fermented vegetables are refrigerated, when so many other brands are shelf stable? It’s because our ferments are naturally fermented and raw. No vinegar, no additives and no boiling here. Lacto-fermented products are full of the nutrients and gut healthy micro-organisms that the organic vegetables were harvested with! Lactic acid fermentation relies on these beneficial cultures and salt to break down natural sugars in the vegetables and produce a variety of healthful substances, including lactic acid. This lactic acid gives the ferments that delicious sour taste and preserves the vegetable. Refrigeration halts the fermentation process. Both methods of preservation are thousands of years old with beautiful, rich histories; but, of course, we’re biased towards the healthier option. 😉🫙💚 #RawFermentation #RealPickles #Organic #LactoFermentation #Pickles
To bring you the very best ferments, our productio To bring you the very best ferments, our production team carefully considers which vegetable varieties work best for us! This week’s colorful comparison features red cabbages: Bandolero vs. Ruby Perfection. Here, we’re looking at the size and shape of the heads and cores, qualities that affect how we process the cabbage, the time it takes to ferment, and the amount of waste per head.
Did you know? This time of year, we go through about 12,000 lbs of organic, Northeast-grown cabbage per day!
#realpickles #rawfermentation #gocoop #organic #redcabbage #coopmonth #northeastgrown
Welcoming a new worker-owner is always exciting fo Welcoming a new worker-owner is always exciting for us here at Real Pickles, and after 7 years of enthusiastic dedicated work we could not be more thrilled to welcome Samba Kane as a member of our co-op! Samba joined us in 2018 as a production assistant and is now an assistant kitchen supervisor. With a wide range of experience and a want for change, he exudes leadership and a positive attitude within our production team. Samba wanted to make sure he could make the long term commitment to Real Pickles before becoming a worker-owner, taking the role very seriously. “You have people here for 10 years, 20 years, and it’s a great thing. It’s great how it changes... And it’s not always ‘Yes, yes, yes.’, there’s democracy.”. Outside of Real Pickles, Samba plays soccer with his friends, goes out to the club, and listens to music. He’s a vibrant laidback friend to all here at Real Pickles and we’re so happy to have him as a member of the co-op! As a worker co-operative, Real Pickles is preserving our strong social mission, empowering our staff to direct the future of our business, and creating good local jobs with shared profits. 

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Thank you to all volunteers and organizers involve Thank you to all volunteers and organizers involved with the North Quabbin Garlic & Arts Festival this year! What an amazing culmination of culture, craftsmanship, and of course, garlic. We had a wonderful time and we hope you did too! @nqgarlicandartsfestival @chasehillfarm #garlicandartsfestival #fermented #garlic #realpickles #gocoop

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