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V Smiley Preserves

Kitchen/cooking
@vsmileypreserves
This jam is made w/ honey. Founded in Seattle, VSP is now based @minifact.ory in Bristol VT #queer #agricultural #commerce
  • Food & Cooking
  • Following 1.5K
  • Followers 6.2K
  • Engagement 1.02%
  • Avg comments 5

About V Smiley Preserves

V Smiley Preserves (@vsmileypreserves) is a Kitchen/cooking creator on Instagram, also filed under Food & Cooking. The account has 6,168 followers and 1,745 published posts. Recent posts average 51 likes and 5 comments, an engagement rate of 1.02%.

V Smiley Preserves belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. V Smiley Preserves follows 1,549 accounts, so the audience is roughly 4 times the size of the list followed. V Smiley Preserves is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files V Smiley Preserves under Kitchen/cooking, with Food & Cooking as a secondary category.

The Instagram bio for V Smiley Preserves runs to 21 words. The bio tags #queer, #agricultural and #commerce. The bio mentions @minifact.ory. The latest activity Flinque has on record for V Smiley Preserves dates from May 2026.

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1,745 Posts

Of the 10 most recent posts shown for V Smiley Preserves, 7 are carousels and 3 are videos. That mix leans toward carousels. V Smiley Preserves has built a substantial archive of 1,745 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 3.5 followers for each post published. V Smiley Preserves also keeps 5 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 100 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include honey, sale, fruit, annual and starts. The captions tag #new, #womenshistorymonth, #vsmiley, #vermont and #provisionspicks.

After living on Whisbey Island and Seattle, I love all the sleepy cloud cover days. More time for simmering greens in broth and patiently chatting with the VistaPrint 🤖(“Keith”) who was so complimentary about my new banners for which starts anew this Saturday. It really feels like time. Yesterday I hauled the last plums out of cold storage which means we are barely going to make it to plum season with our supply, but that’s wonderful bc brought in Cornwall Plums for their customers dotted around New England. Anyhow, the farmers market sales are the financial engine behind local fruit purchasing like rhubarb from Omar and all the produce we bring into the jam manufactory week by week, now through November.

Pictured are some home baking projects made brighter with jam. Grain free, honey sweetened goodness. A coconut cheesecake with Aronia Blueberry Jam. A vanilla cake with honey sour cream and Raspberry Jam.

Excited to see you on Pine St!
The category is marmalade. Set the table brightly, pull out your skillet, any butter you can find, protect your knuckles as you slice dinner/dessert/elevenses/midnight toast, walk the line of burning the bread, snatch it off the heat, dropping it onto the plate, wiping your hands on your pants bc somehow that helps cool them down. Somewhere in the cupboard—is it in the fridge or with the tomato sauce?—is all this fabulous marmalade you mailed to yourself in April even though it was starting to grow green outside, you knew the marmalade would start to reach its peak in August and you didn’t want to miss that ⛅️ Apricot Seville Orange Chamomile or the Bergamot Orange that was sold out for 24 months. Found them! with the tomatoes jars/cans!

Our annual marmalade sale ends todaaaaay. I’m sending out a final email with the secret sauce code for 20% off the whole category, from the wild bee balm part to the tweedy super traditional marm.

Excited to pack up your treasures on Weds 💕
It’s the ANNUAL MARMALADE SALE - OMG! It’s finally here 😭 all the slicing and simmering and steeping and boiling is done and we have many delicious intense and not so intense citrusy, aromatic, chewy, melty flavors to share!

Some items of note:
🍊Bergamot Orange Marm and Seville Apricot Chamomile are back after a 2 year hiatus.
🍋 Marm sale starts Thursday and runs through Monday.
🍯 All inventory is loaded in and will not be restocked during the sale.
🐝Like all VSP sales, its 20% of retail AND half cases end up double discounted 🤯
🍐The discount is available to folks who are signed up for our newsletter, which you can still do!

Excited to get this started. Marm sale is always the most rolicking of our annual sales.
This Women’s History Month, we’re celebrating, a women-owned Vermont business founded by V in Bristol. 🫙

Sourcing locally grown and foraged fruit—including rare, heritage, and wild varieties—V creates small-batch preserves that capture truly distinctive flavor profiles. Sweetened exclusively with honey, her spreads highlight the full depth and nuance of the fruit. 🍯

✨Now available from Provisions International:✨

🍯 Cornwall Plums & Honey - bursting with aromatic, mixed-varietal Vermont plums
🍒 Nectarine Plum Cherry Conserve - a luxurious blend of stone fruit, citrus, and spice

Perfect for cheese boards or anywhere you want something a little unexpected!

#new #womenshistorymonth #vsmiley #vermont #provisionspicks
Perhaps our most photographed vegetable…is currently sitting under a blanket of honey, macerating (passive cook method to draw out moisture from the fruit/veg) to cook into Rhubarb Vanilla Jam on Weds.

Thankful for another year of forced (grown in the dark), hot house rhubarb landing on the east coast and into the kitchen.
⏰ Mail Order Cookie Boxes w/ Cherry Rosehip Hibiscus Jam due this morn at 11 AM.
Hi Hi 👋🏼 Free Shipping on orders $39+ <> I suggest one of 3 Seasons Boxes (like our collab w [under $40] ) along with a nibble or sip from the galaxy of small businesses that we work with like halvah from and soda from

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V SMILEY PRESERVES__Last year I invited V Smiley to Osay Linger even though she no longer calls the PNW home. Once I reminded myself that as the boss, I get to make the “rules,” I enthusiastically reached out to her. In my book, because this region played a significant part in her culinary journey, including her in Osay Linger was total fit. I’m so glad to have her jam back in our line-up.

V developed her style of no-added-pectin, honey preserving while working in Seattle kitchens, launching V Smiley Preserves in 2013 and spending several years at city farmer’s markets before packing up the business and moving home to Vermont in 2015.

Opening a restaurant and finding a future for the VT farm where she grew up, undergirded both the decision to start V Smiley Preserves and the move back east. In her words, “In Vermont, with a yard of herbs and more currants and gooseberries than we could ever pick, I added to the flavor library further honing my style of aromatics driven honey confiture. In 2022, Minifactory, our jam manufactory and preserves-driven restaurant and bakery opened in Bristol, Vermont. Located in Addison County, less than 10 minutes from where I grew up, Minifactory brings together my experiences cooking and preserving on both the East and West coasts. Come visit!”

I really hope to take her up on that invitation some day. Until then, one jar for me, one jar for you…

#osaylinger #pnwmaker
It was a delicious day. Elderberry Plum Jam w extra honey & sour cream on banana poppy seed cardamom bread (made w almond, coconut flour & honey swtnd) plus a GIGANTIC salad for sharing that helped clean out the veg drawer
Honey preserved tomatoes 😮- IT’S THE ANNUAL TOMATO JAM SALE <> It starts today for newsletter subscribers. 20% off everything tomato including the already discounted half, full and double cases. I’ll put the subscribe button in stories

V Smiley Preserves's engagement

V Smiley Preserves's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.02%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 98 followers. An average post collects 51 likes and 5 comments, close to 10 likes for each comment.

Engagement rate

1.02%

Avg likes
51
Avg comments
5
Interactions : followers
1 : 98

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Who is V Smiley Preserves?

V Smiley Preserves (@vsmileypreserves) is a Kitchen/cooking creator on Instagram, also filed under Food & Cooking. V Smiley Preserves is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for V Smiley Preserves runs to 21 words.

How many followers does V Smiley Preserves have?

V Smiley Preserves has 6,168 followers on Instagram (6.2K). V Smiley Preserves follows 1,549 accounts, so the audience is roughly 4 times the size of the list followed. V Smiley Preserves has built a substantial archive of 1,745 posts.

What is V Smiley Preserves's engagement rate?

V Smiley Preserves's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.02%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 98 followers. An average post collects 51 likes and 5 comments, close to 10 likes for each comment.

What does V Smiley Preserves post about on Instagram?

Flinque files V Smiley Preserves under Kitchen/cooking, with Food & Cooking as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for V Smiley Preserves, 7 are carousels and 3 are videos. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for V Smiley Preserves repeatedly use the words honey, sale, fruit, annual and starts. V Smiley Preserves's captions carry hashtags such as #new, #womenshistorymonth and #vsmiley. V Smiley Preserves writes those captions mainly in English. The bio tags #queer, #agricultural and #commerce. V Smiley Preserves keeps 5 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.

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