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My Story
My Story
Passion for Canning
Passion for Canning
Like many during the COVID-19 pandemic I gravitated towards gardening as a comforting hobby during lockdown. My harvest was surprisingly robust and necessitated that I find food storage solutions. Food has always been my love language and what started as a need for harvest preservation turned into a passionate endeavor that allowed me to share my bounty with friends and family.
"Come on Betty!" Is a phrase my mother uses to encourage, coax, or cheer on a person or object that might have just needed a little enthusiastic push.
Founding the Company
Founding the Company
Since moving to Ann Arbor in 2018 I have found the greatest community of people and non-profits striving to make the world a better place starting at the local level. Engaging with these groups such as SCRAP Creative Reuse and ZeroWaste.org helped allay my climate anxiety and provided me with numerous resources on how I could personally lower my carbon footprint. However, I still didn’t feel like I was contributing enough to a positive solution. Through a culmination of conversations, meetings and engagements with other passionate individuals supporting sustainability and circularity in Michigan I felt that my passion for canning, love of sharing my bounty and excitement for creating zero waste recipes could be a scalable solution to fight food waste.
Land Acknowledgement
Land Acknowledgement
C’Mon Betty is built on the tenets of land stewardship and honoring the produce, product lifecycle, ensuring that all materials used in creating our products remain in circularity and that waste is not generated. We recognize that these practices are not unique or new and are deeply rooted in indigenous traditions.
C’Mon Betty considers Washtenaw County located on the Huron River watershed our home and environmental responsibility. We garden and produce on the traditional, ancestral and contemporary territory of the Anishinaabeg, Odawa, Ojibwe, Bodéwadmik, Seneca, Delaware, Shawnee and Wyandot peoples. We benefit from the resources of this land acquired in the coercive Treaty of Detroit in 1807 and the colonization of the area.
C’Mon Betty is committed to honoring and protecting the land that these nations have been caretakers of. We want to ensure no food is wasted, respectfully steward the land on which the food is grown, and limit the creation of pollutants that remain in the environment. We pledge to be a partner in fostering communication and community with those who developed these historical environmental practices and to maintain their legacy for the wellbeing of our planet for future generations.
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