ABOUT
ROOTS KITCHEN & CANNERY started out as a humble farmer’s market booth in Jackson Hole, Wyoming where we sold pies and quiches every Saturday morning. In 2012 founder Orion Bellorado teamed up with canning expert Patrick Burr to expand our operation in Bozeman, Montana with a line of deliciously unique canned goods. Two years later they brought on the third member of our team, Willi Brooks, to run the bakery back in Wyoming.
Since then we’ve won two Good Food Awards, been featured on an episode of Taste Makers, and expanded our distribution across the US! Our canning facility has moved but we still call Bozeman, Montana home-base and continue the work of processing and preserving fresh fruits and veggies so that you can enjoy FRESH TASTE YEAR ROUND - because transforming flavorful fruits and veggies into hand-canned pickles, and preserves will always be OUR JAM (see what we did there).
OUR CORE VALUES
Small Batch Manufacturing
Organic Locally Grown Produce
Quality Over Quantity
Healthy Eating
Handmade Products
Simple Ingredients
Sustainable Agriculture
Our iconic logo was created by artist Jasmine Lilly as a hand-carved linocut print back in 2012. Over a decade later the tactile quality of the RKC Beet stands as a testament to our brand's homegrown origins and organic values.
MEET THE TEAM
Patrick Burr (aka Pickle Pat aka The Pickle Prince) is the mastermind behind all your favorite Roots Kitchen & Cannery products. As a lifelong food enthusiast and self taught canner Patrick draws inspiration from local farms, tea and herb pairings, and the artisanal food movement. He is dedicated to connecting with regional growers, and loves supporting local agriculture by creating new and flavorful ways for folks to enjoy the fresh tastes of summer during every season.
When not putting up produce you will find Patrick paddling his canoe down a river, running the many mountain trails of Montana, or backpacking through the mountains alongside his dog pip and partner Jasmine.
patrick@rootskitchencannery.com
(406) 570-6877
Born in Jackson Wyoming, Orion Bellorado has been a lover of food for as long anyone can remember. He started the original farmers market stand that spawned the evolution that is today known as Roots Kitchen & Cannery.
He carries two masters degrees, one in physics the other in education. He is active in his community and skis and boats whenever he can. Orion is also berry enthusiast and can often be found in the summers foraging like a bear in the huckleberry patches of his home Jackson Hole.
accounting@rootskitchencannery.com
(307) 690-4634
Co-owner Willi Brooks was born and raised in Wyoming, and from an early age his mom Amy taught him how to bake and cook. Food has always been a main staple in Willi’s life, and growing up almost every evening his family would sit down to dinner to share a meal.
At the age of 15 Willi’s love for food would take him in a different direction, when he designed, fund-raised for, and constructed the Jackson Hole Food Cupboard as his Eagle Scout project.
Willi made his way to Missoula, MT for college where he became the ice cream maker at the Big Dipper Ice Cream Shop, there he learned how to run a business and the importance of efficient practice in the work place. Willi graduated with a Fine Arts Degree through the Journalism school with a focus in Radio and TV Broadcast Production. Willi then found his way back to Jackson where he started baking pies with Orion, furthering his culinary skills, and working at The Community Center for the Arts fulltime. Now he runs the Jackson baking and Farmers Market operations as well as managing The Jackson Center or the Arts Theatre.
pieguys@rootskitchencannery.com
(307) 690-3997