Quick Pickle Kit thanks Jim Deaver Fire Academy Scholarship

The Quick Pickle Kit team thanks Socorro from the Jim Deaver Fire Academy Scholarship for the kind gift. This organization funds scholarships that support our future firefighters and their next fundraiser is May 9, 2020.

Captain Jim Deaver was raised in Centerville, resided in the Sunnyside/Clovis as an adult & purchased a home in Morro Bay that he & his wife, Socorro, visited often & hoped to live in someday. He worked as Fire Captain of the Sanger Fire Department & retired with over 28 years of service. After retiring, he was hired by Sanger High School where he started the Valley Regional Occupational Program Firefighter class to teach & mentor students. In 2015, he suffered cardiac arrest, resulting in severe brain damage and lost his ability to speak, walk & perform everyday functions. He has been institutionalized in an acute care facility since 2015. 

Socorro established a fund in her husband's name as a means of carrying on his giving spirit, belief in serving others & devotion to promoting education. Their mission is to raise money that will aid cadets that have been accepted to attend Fresno Regional Fire Academy by providing them with financial assistance to offset the cost of tuition, uniforms & supplies, thereby supporting their pursuit of higher education & taking a part in making their dream of becoming a firefighter a reality.

QuickPickleKit.com is proud to donate 10% of sales on our website to the Jim Deaver Fire Academy Scholarship Fund. The Quick Pickle Kit is a Thoughtful Gift - wedding, dieters, athletes, gardeners, snackers, cooks, DIYers, vegetarians, vegans + family.

The QuickPickleKit.com team received the 2019 US Small Business Administration (SBA) Award for supporting nonprofits, reducing food waste and providing jobs for disabled adults. More info: quickpicklekit.com.

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Quick Pickle Kit on KCBX 1/14/19

Listen to KCBX on Monday 1/14/19 between 1 - 2pm on the Issue + Ideas segment as Tom Wilmer interviews the Quick Pickle Kit team about how their products provide funds for schools + nonprofits. Listen Live Here from anywhere at www.kcbx.org. If you miss it, listen anytime here. #idea #ideas #issue #issues #sustainability #sustainable #fundraise #fundraiser #fundraising #nonprofit #giveback #philanthropy #business #corporatephilanthropy #philanthropist #NPR #womenowned #womanowned #team #food #wellness #garden #grow #school #schools #nonprofits #student #students #produce #veg #vegan #collaborate #partner #vegetarian #organic #artisanal #health #healthy #student #students #plantbased #Bioneer #Ecologistics #teach #cook #cooking #podcast #interview #press #media #grant #reduce #recycle #AmazingRace #Facebook #Instagram #Twitter #journey #discovery #KCBX #TomWilmer #fun #SLO #SantaBarbara #APM #PRX #BBC #marketplace #MorroBay #LosOsos #ChamberofCommerce #Apple #Stitcher #PasoRobles #Cayucos #Lompoc #Salinas #SantaYnez #Avila #Cambria #CentralCoast #PublicRadio #CSA #coop #teacher #QuickPickleKit

NPR Journeys of Discovery: Pickling for Nonprofits

Andrea Wasko (right) + Meaghan Gilbert (left), makers of the Quick Pickle Kit, visit with Tom Wilmer (center) MORRO BAY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Quick Pickle Kit thanks Tom Wilmer for the wonderful interview + informative podcast - click here.

The Quick Pickle Kit is designed specifically to generate income for nonprofit organizations and schools via home pickling. Any fresh garden produce imaginable—from carrots to seaweed, along the classic cucumber—is fair game for pickling.

Based in Los Osos, California, Andrea Wasko and her partner Meaghan Gilbert talk with correspondent Tom Wilmer about their pickling kit and partnerships with schools and nonprofit organizations.

You are invited to subscribe to the Lowell Thomas Award-winning travel show podcast, Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer, featured on the NPR Podcast Directory, Apple Podcast, the NPR One App & Stitcher.com. Twitter: TomCWilmer. Instagram: Thomas.Wilmer. Member of the National Press Club in Washington D.C. Underwriting support provided by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

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Quick Pickle Kit Proud to Support Future Firefighters

While people are running out, firefighters are running in...    When you purchase the Quick Pickle Kit + Spice Packets here QuickPickleKit.com, we donate 10% of online sales to support fire cadets through the Deaver Fund https://www.deaverfund.org/. They provide scholarships to cadets to offset the cost of tuition, uniforms, and/or supplies in order to support cadets in their pursuit of higher education and be a part of making their dream of becoming a firefighter a reality. More info: www.quickpicklekit.com. #GiveBack #donate #donation #firefighter #nonprofit #fire #cadet #fundraiser #fundraising #FireDepartment #teach #mentor #student #give #serving #devotion #education #FireAcademy #dream #reality #investinyouth #CommunityCollege #CalFire #DeaverFund #CAfire #California #investinyourself #service #success #serve #community #business #CA #QuickPickleKit

Merry Christmas from the Quick Pickle Kit team!

Thank you for your support this year - Enjoy your holiday! 

 More info: www.QuickPickleKit.com.

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Tradition of the Christmas Pickle

Make your own edible Christmas Pickle with the Quick Pickle Kit. BUY NOW + receive in time for the Holidays - Great Gift!!! More info: www.QuickPickleKit.com.

The tradition of the Christmas Pickle has got to be one of the strangest modern Christmas customs in that no one is quite sure why it exists at all!

In the 1880s Woolworth stores started selling glass ornaments imported from Germany and some were in the shape of various fruit and vegetables. It seems that pickles must have been among the selection!

Around the same time it was claimed that the Christmas Pickle was a very old German tradition and that the pickle was the last ornament hung on the Christmas tree and then the first child to find the pickle got an extra present.

However, the claim that it's an old German tradition seems to be a total myth! Not many people in Germany have even heard of the Christmas Pickle! (Similarly in Russia virtually no one knows the supposedly Russian story of Babushka!)

Some families now have the tradition of hanging the pickle on the tree, with the first person/child to find it getting a present. But it probably didn't start in Germany!

There are two other rather far-fetched stories linking the pickle to Christmas.

One features a fighter in the American Civil War who was born in Bavaria (an area of what is now Germany). He was a prisoner, and starving, he begged a guard for one last pickle before he died. The guard took pity on him and gave a pickle to him. The pickle gave him the mental and physical strength to live on!

The other story is linked to St. Nicholas. It's a medieval tale of two Spanish boys traveling home from a boarding school for the holidays. When they stopped at an inn for the night, the evil innkeeper, killed the boys and put them in a pickle barrel. That evening, St. Nicholas stopped at the same inn, and found the boys in the barrel and miraculously bought them back to life!

There is an old legend about St. Nicholas rescuing boys from a barrel but the barrel was originally holding meat for pies - not pickles!

So it's most likely that an ornament salesmen, with a lot of spare pickles to sell, invented the legend of the Christmas Pickle!

The American city of Berrien Springs, MI (also known as the Christmas Pickle Capital of the World) has an annual pickle festival held during the early part of December.

Make your own edible Christmas Pickle with the Quick Pickle Kit. BUY NOW + receive in time for the Holidays - Great Gift!!! More info: www.QuickPickleKit.com.

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