From our kitchen to your table.
At a homestead owned since 1884 by four generations of Landins, Bea’s Ho-Made products is located one half mile east of Gills Rock, on Highway 42. The canning business started quite by accident. In 1961 the Landin’s oldest daughter, Linda, started selling cherries from a picnic table by the roadside. The following year she included an over supply of beans and cucumbers from the garden. Motivated by her success, she added her grandmother’s famous chopped cherry jam. The jam sold very well, inspiring her mother, Bea, to expand the selections to include strawberry jam, raspberry jam, and various pickled items. Each year something new was added and the business grew. The Landins operated a farm by day and did their canning at night, selling the finishes products on a picnic table by the roadside. In 1972 Bea started a wholesale business prompting her to build a kitchen and retail store.
