Wild Italian Fig Jam Produced by Future-Primitive in Brooklyn + Nantucket

Wild Italian Fig Jam

Deep in the South of Italy there is a region named Salento. It’s here where you will find the tastiest, juiciest, most exquisite figs. We hand-pick these lovelies at their peak of perfection and create small batches of the finest jam, preserved with a low sugar content so you taste the true delicacy of the figs.

• Packaging: Designed by Future-Primitive
• Variety: Made from hand-picked, fresh, wild, Italian Figs in Puglia Italy.
• Recipe: Created by Jenna
• Bouquet: Fresh Fig with a hint of rosemary, the low sugar content makes it more like a Fig Sauce.

Small Batch, Limited Edition of 250 Jars

12 OZ (340g)

SOLD OUT

Puglia Wild Figs

The Salento region in Puglia Italy has an abundance of wild fig trees which thrive in the summer heat and salty atmosphere amidst it’s forgotten landscapes. We harvest these beauties in the late summer when the figs are bursting at the seams, revealing their deep scarlet flesh. With hundreds of varieties dotting the landscape we gather our figs from locals who pick them in their small villages. This guarantees that we are using a wild diversity of the best organic fruits.

The harvest was exceptional due to the hot sun and lack of rain for five months. We developed our recipe to gently preserve the delicate taste of the fresh fig. Made by hand in small batches with only a hint of organic raw cane sugar, and a touch of lemon to naturally preserve. We are sure you will agree our fig jam is the next best thing to a fresh wild Italian fig from the Puglian countryside

Facts;

• For over a million years, fig trees have shaped our world, influenced our evolution, nourished our bodies and fed our imaginations.

• Fig fruit is actually an inverted flower that blooms inside the fleshy structure. The flower is not visible from the outside. The scientific name for this type of flower is infructescence.

• Figs are pollinated by a special type of wasp which enters the infructescence through a tiny passage. Various animals also eat figs and disperse their seed through their feces.

• The edible fig is one of the first plants that was cultivated by humans.

• The roots of the Fig tree reached into the minds of many great thinkers.

• The Naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace observed that Ficus species exemplify variation which inspired his theory on diversity of evolution.

• The buddha became enlightened under the fig tree (Ficus religiosa).

• The forbidden fruit of knowledge was not an apple but a FIG.

• Many cultures, all over the world believe ancestral spirits, gods and demons inhabit the fig trees. These stories come from a time when nature formed the foundation of faith.

• We are living in a time more than ever that humans need to reconnect with nature to evolve both spiritually and protect the natural resources of our planet.

• Over 1,274 species of birds and mammals eat figs which means the Ficus species is essential to sustaining a variety of species in ecosystems all over the world.