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Wednesday 10am - 5:30pm Thursday 10am - 5:30pm Friday 10am - 5:30pm Saturday 10am - 2pm Sunday 11am - 2pm

Crunchy Cottage, 10008 Foothills Boulevard Ste. 170, Roseville, CA (2026)

09/16/2026

We scaled the batch...
But we didn’t scale the soul out of it 🫶🍇

For the last 7 years, we've making our Elderberry Syrup roughly 50 jars at a time

Today, we have better equipment, a beautiful production facility and a whole lot more hands helping us make just over 1,000 bottles in a batch.

And believe it or not… that’s still verrry SMALL 🤏

Our production team regularly runs batches of 20,000+ units for other brands

Us? We’re perfectly happy staying little 🤗

Because even with better equipment and more hands, this is still an incredibly hands-on process

We work together meticulously from batch to batch, adjusting for the natural variables that come with REAL, organic ingredients — flavor, viscosity, color, aroma and all the little nuances that change when you’re working with plants...

But the goal has never changed:

We want your inner two-year-old to jump for joy when you taste our Elderberry Syrup 🙌

Because “healthy” does NOT have to mean funky 💯

Elderberries on their own are musky, bitter and tart 👀 So we’ve obsessed over transforming that profile into something people genuinely look forward to taking every day 😋

Layer upon layer of organic elderberries, rosehips, echinacea, ginger, cinnamon and cloves — finished with real, sweet honey — each ingredient bringing its own flavor and powerful plant constituents to the final bottle

There is intention behind every ingredient and every step 🙏

Bigger batches.
Better equipment.
More hands around the table.

Still small.
Still meticulous.
Still handmade.

And that’s exactly how we plan to keep it 💜

09/13/2026

ORGANIC DOESN’T HAVE TO MEAN BORING. 🌿✨

Real food can be indulgent. Creative. Savory. Sweet. And ridiculously delicious.

That’s part of what we’re building at the Real Food Farmers Market — a place where eating intentionally doesn’t mean sacrificing the foods + flavors that make life FUN.

Meet a few of the specialty food makers bringing the flavor:

🍪 Ritual Cookies — JUMBO cookies made with organic ingredients like unbleached flour, pasture-raised eggs, European-style butter, cane sugar + chocolate. Proof that a better ingredient label can still make one heck of a cookie.

🌿 Crunchy Cottage — Traditional herbal wellness made delicious. Organic Elderberry Syrup, Fire C***r + functional herbal blends rooted in old-world wellness traditions.

🔥 ForkFire — Small-batch marinades bringing SERIOUS umami flavor to the table. The kind of bottle that takes a simple meat dish completely over the top.

🍯 Love Honey Co. — Local raw + unfiltered honey, whipped and infused with herbs, spices + foods into incredible sweet AND savory creations. We seriously suggest you taste the Chipotle Garlic Honey Glaze. 🤤

And that’s only FOUR of our specialty food makers.

We’ve also got artisan sourdough, fresh-baked muffins + banana nut and blueberry crumble loaves, locally roasted coffee, handcrafted vanilla extract, and fresh herbal tea blends made from herbs grown straight out of the ground.

🍋 And when we say lemonade, we definitely don’t mean just lemonade. Think fresh-pressed lemonade + handcrafted shaved ice with a whole lineup of flavors, customizable combinations, specialty creations, HOT-pressed lemonades and seasonal twists.

Organic living doesn’t have to be bland or boring. Around here, real food IS the fun stuff. 🤎

📍 195 Elm Avenue | Auburn
🗓 Thursdays | 5–8 PM | Year-round

09/06/2026

A lot of y'all out here not realizing the psyop happening right in front of your eyes

And what's even worse- you're feeding the beast

The powers that be would LOVE to use every word and empathetic tear from women in solidarity over postpartum conditions AGAINST YOU

Watch how many SEE PEA ESS cases start popping up every time a new mom is diagnosed now and the families that get torn apart because y'all felt for a woman who admitted to ⚰️ her own children

Custody cases
Job security
Positions of leadership
Volunteering or working with children .... the right to vote?

All on the line now 🤦‍♀️

From C0\/1D to k1||er$- y'all just keep falling for it

Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 1 Peter 5:8 👌

09/03/2026

What if we told you cold + flu season is only one tiny piece of the elderberry story? 👀

For years, elderberry has been put into one little box: immune support 🤔

But this ancient berry is far more biologically interesting than most people realize...

That nearly black-purple pigment comes from anthocyanins — powerful plant compounds studied for their relationship with oxidative stress, inflammatory signaling, metabolic health + more

And some of the emerging human research is FASCINATING 🤩

Elderberry has been studied for its relationship with glucose regulation + fat metabolism, while research into elderberry polyphenols has also found changes within the gut microbiome, including beneficial bacteria like Bifidobacterium + Faecalibacterium!

In other words...

Your gut microbes may love elderberry as much as your immune system does. 🤯

And researchers continue looking at this little berry through an increasingly wide lens — from metabolic health and oxidative stress to the microbiome, inflammatory pathways + even cognitive health.

But here's another piece of OUR elderberry story...

Our syrup has never been just elderberry.

We intentionally surround it with organic rosehips, echinacea, ginger, cinnamon + clove, finish every batch with raw honey, and use a touch of raw apple c***r vinegar with the mother to naturally balance the pH of the finished syrup 🙏

Every ingredient is organic. Nothing synthetic. Nothing unnecessary. Every ingredient is there for a reason.

Elderberry may be the star, but it was never meant to perform alone. 🌿

And after seven years of making this recipe by hand and 20,000+ bottles poured, we've watched it become one of those staples people come back for again... and again... and again.

That matters to us.

Because long before elderberry became a seasonal wellness trend, plants like these were being used, studied, passed down + understood through generations.

And modern science is still uncovering just how complex they really are.

Ancient. Wise. Potent.
And still teaching us.

Maybe it's time we stopped thinking of elderberry as something we only reach for when we're sick and make it a part of our everyday lives 🤗

09/02/2026

SEPTEMBER IS STACKED. 🌻

Farmers markets. Girls nights. Community gatherings. Local food. And plenty of opportunities to come sip your wellness with us. 🤎

But first... tomorrow is a BIG one.

Tomorrow night is the OPENING NIGHT of the brand new Real Food Farmers Market in Auburn, founded through the nonprofit Gold Country Food Hub. We’ve had the tremendous privilege of supporting its creation and will continue serving through the nonprofit in a volunteer market management role.

And we REALLY want to see this market thrive. 🌱

It’s an intentionally curated market centered around real, local, ORGANIC food - but for a new market to become strong and sustainable, it needs a community that SHOWS UP.

One that... Shops. Eats. Meets their farmers. Gets to know their makers. Brings their friends. And comes back the next week.

So we would LOVE to see you tomorrow for opening night — and throughout September as this beautiful new market puts down roots in Auburn. 🤎

And you can find Crunchy Cottage ALL OVER this month:

🌿 Thursdays — Real Food Farmers Market, Auburn
🌻 Fridays — Loomis Farmers Market
🍂 Saturdays — Quarry Park Farmers Market, Rocklin

PLUS:

✨ Sept 3 — Girls Night Out at The Flower Farm
🚜 Sept 12 — Tractor Supply Market, Rocklin
🌾 Sept 13 + 27 — Mahany Park Farmers Market, Roseville

Save the calendar. Send it to your crunchy friend. Come stock up, taste something new and hang out with us in real life.

Because as much as we love making these products for you, our favorite part of doing this has always been getting to know the real you.

The conversations. The stories. The familiar faces that become friends. The relationships that simply cannot be built through a screen.

That’s why we keep showing up. 🤎

See you somewhere in September — and hopefully TOMORROW NIGHT in Auburn! 🌻

09/02/2026

SAVE THIS POST ⚠️

Because when you need us, you probably don’t want to be searching for us 👀

As we head into cold + flu season, consider this your friendly reminder that there are SO many ways to get Crunchy Cottage into your hands locally...

Our retail partners are an extension of what we do, giving our community more places to grab the products you already know and love without having to wait for a market day.

If you need something quickly:

Your fastest options are always to find a retailer with verified stock availability or place an order directly with us for pickup in Loomis ✅️

Please call retailers ahead before making the drive!

👉Inventory varies by location and products can sell out between restocks, so stock is never guaranteed.

And of course, you can always come straight to us 🫶

We offer:

• Pickup in Loomis
• Local delivery (not a same-day service)
• Shipping (3-5 business days)

Or find us at 3 farmers markets weekly:

• Thursday — Real Food Farmers Market | 5–8 PM
• Friday — Loomis Farmers Market | 9 AM–12 PM
• Saturday — Quarry Park Farmers Market | Rocklin

And one little word from the people who see this every single sick season:

The best time to buy your wellness staples is before you need them 👌

When someone wakes up feeling crummy, the last thing you want to be doing is driving around town trying to find Elderberry Syrup or Fire C***r 😬

Stock the cupboard. Keep your favorites on hand.

Make supporting your body part of the rhythm before the sniffles show up.

And when you do need us in a pinch, save this post so you know exactly where to find us. 😉🌿

✨️ Retail inventory and product selection vary by location. Please contact individual retailers to verify current availability before visiting.

08/27/2026

7 YEARS IN BUSINESS. AND WE’RE JUST GETTING STARTED. 🌿

This one feels big. 🥹

After seven years of building Crunchy Cottage — one bottle, one market, one customer, and one very sweaty pop-up at a time 😆 — I feel tremendously honored to share that Crunchy Cottage will be participating in and I’ll be helping manage the new Real Food Farmers Market in Auburn!

And this isn't just another farmers market.

Tammi and I have been incredibly intentional about creating a highly curated market featuring organic farmers, producers, and artisan makers who care deeply about what they're growing, raising and making.

Because we want you to KNOW YOUR FOOD.

Know where it came from.
Know how it was grown.
Know the hands that harvested it and made it.

We're taking food back to its roots — back to relationship, craftsmanship, nourishment and trust.

Back to how it was. And how it should have always been. 🌿

And for me, this feels incredibly full-circle.

Farmers markets have shaped Crunchy Cottage and me in ways I could have never anticipated. They've stretched me, humbled me, exhausted me 😂, connected me deeply to our community and taught me so much about what it takes to build a small business.

There have been tears. There has been alllll the sweat. And there have been plenty of moments I wanted to quit.

Now I get to take what those seven years taught me and help create a space where other farmers, makers and small businesses can grow and thrive, too.

Just... wow. 🥹

I know Auburn is a trek for some of you, but seeing familiar Crunchy Cottage faces on opening night would mean SO much to me.

Come know your food.
Come know your farmer.
Come know your maker. 🍎

REAL FOOD FARMERS MARKET
📍 195 Elm Avenue • Auburn, CA
🗓 Opening Night: Thursday, September 3rd
⏰ 5–8 PM
🌿 Every Thursday, year-round

Let me know you're coming and I'll see you there! 🤍

08/23/2026

Good things take time...

Our Fire C***r infuses for no less than 12 weeks.

Fresh roots. Fresh citrus. Fresh peppers. Fresh herbs. 100% Organic, farm-fresh ingredients sitting in raw apple c***r vinegar for months, giving it time to extract the plant constituents we're actually after.

Our tinctures get the same treatment. 8–10 weeks minimum. Carefully selected herbs, glycerin and Kangen water....and then we wait....

Because we're not trying to see how quickly we can turn ingredients into inventory

We're trying to see how much we can get out of them

We're not in this for the transaction-

We're in it for the testimony

The healing story
The breakthrough
The regeneration
The release

The message that starts with, “Okay, I have to tell you what happened...”

THAT is what we're after 👏

It's why we obsess over ingredients. Why we'll reformulate until it feels right. Why we'll source the harder-to-find ingredient that costs more. Why we care about the water, the process, and what goes into that bottle before it ever lands in your hands.

Because we don't just want to make and sell you a thing.

We want to make something worthy of becoming part of your story 🙌

Something made with enough intention that you can feel the difference.

Good things take time.

Around here, we give them time. 🤎

08/12/2026

There's a story being written that you may not have thought to read...

It's one where the main characters aren't just the ones who show up with their tents and their freshly curated or harvested goods

It's actually the people who come with anticipation

The people searching for something that they feel in their bones

And no, it's not a thing for sale

It's deeper
Older
Wiser

It's a ritual
A connection
Something that always was, but somehow got lost along the way

It's the way the flavors of the season sing and the smiles go on stretching and the hands that reach to fill their bags keep searching... yearning... restoring that thing that was lost

It's the farmer who remembers what your family loved last week

The little feet running ahead because they know exactly which booth they're looking for

It's neighbors lingering longer than they planned because there's actually nowhere better to be

It's asking

Who grew this?
Who made this?
What's in it?
How do I use it?

And getting an answer from the very hands that planted it, picked it, baked it, brewed it, blended it, or built it 🙏

Maybe that's what we're all searching for

Not another place to buy things
But a place to belong

A return to knowing where our food comes from

Knowing the people who make the things we bring into our homes

Knowing our neighbors

A rhythm that existed long before grocery aisles and two-day shipping convinced us that convenience was still meeting our needs

Every Friday morning, something old comes alive again in the middle of Loomis

We gather

We eat what was grown in familiar soil
We support the hands that made it

We talk. We laugh. We stay awhile.

And week after week, without even realizing it...
we're remembering how to be together

That's the story of the Loomis Farmers Market

And the best part?

You aren't coming to watch it or read about it...
You're one of the main characters 🥰

Please join us Fridays in the Taylor's Ice Cream parking lot from 9am-12pm and help us write the next chapter 🫶

Crunchy Cottage

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