Lancaster County Canning · New Holland, Pennsylvania · Small Batch
Welsh Mountain Canning Company
Chow chow, sauerkraut, jams, jellies, and the old Pennsylvania habit of putting the harvest into jars instead of letting the season go to waste.
Welsh Mountain Canning works near New Holland in Lancaster County, using produce from regional suppliers, including surrounding Amish farms and local orchards. The produce is cleaned and cut by hand, then preserved in small batches without artificial ingredients.
Small-batch preserved foods made near New Holland, Pennsylvania.
Where It Comes From
New Holland sits in the middle of one of Pennsylvania's best-known farm and preserving regions.
A Canning Company With the Right Address.
Welsh Mountain Canning is based near New Holland, in the agricultural landscape of Lancaster County.
The company sources produce from a range of suppliers, including vegetables grown on surrounding Amish farms and fruit harvested from local orchards.
That makes place an important part of the product. Chow chow, sauerkraut, jams, jellies, apple butter, pickles, and canned fruit all belong naturally to a region where preserving the harvest has long been part of everyday food culture.
Welsh Mountain Canning turns that regional pantry tradition into jars made for today's farm markets, specialty stores, and gift boxes.
A Lancaster County setting surrounded by farms, orchards, and Pennsylvania food traditions.
Produce is prepared by hand before it goes into Welsh Mountain's preserved foods.
The company keeps production small enough to focus on flavor and texture.
Some ingredients come from surrounding Amish farmland and nearby orchards.
From Produce to Pantry
Preservation Without Trying to Hide the Ingredient.
Welsh Mountain Canning's process is straightforward: start with good produce, prepare it carefully, and preserve it in a way that lets the food remain recognizable.
Regional Produce
The company works with produce suppliers that include Lancaster County farms and local orchards.
Cleaned & Cut by Hand
From start to finish, the produce is cleaned and cut by hand before processing.
Traditional Hot-Water Processing
Many of the company's jarred products are naturally preserved using hot-water-bath processing rather than artificial ingredients.
Made Small
Small-batch production helps maintain the flavor and texture that make preserved foods worth opening.
A Pennsylvania Pantry Tradition
PAPut the Season in a Jar.
For generations, Pennsylvania farm families preserved what gardens and orchards produced while it was abundant. Pickling, fermenting, canning, jam-making, and fruit preserving helped move summer and autumn food into the colder months.
Chow chow is one of the clearest Pennsylvania Dutch examples: a sweet-and-sour mixture of vegetables traditionally built from what was available at the end of the growing season.
Sauerkraut belongs to another old preservation tradition, using fermentation to transform fresh cabbage into something tangy, durable, and deeply connected to Pennsylvania German foodways.
Jams and jellies tell the orchard side of the same story— fruit at its peak, preserved so the flavor lasts beyond harvest.
Selected for a Reason
Why We Chose Welsh Mountain Canning.
Few makers fit our Pennsylvania pantry story as naturally as this one.
Welsh Mountain gives us products that feel genuinely regional: chow chow beside a sandwich or roast, sauerkraut at a Pennsylvania supper, and jars of jam or jelly waiting for toast, biscuits, or breakfast.
The company also gives us something we value in a gift: the product does not need an invented backstory. The farming region, hand preparation, small-batch canning, and preserved-food tradition already give the jar plenty to say.
And because we will carry both savory and sweet products, Welsh Mountain can move across breakfast gifts, Pennsylvania pantry collections, comfort-food boxes, and seasonal gift assortments without feeling repetitive.
The story is not complicated: grow good food, preserve the season, and put something worth keeping on the pantry shelf.
Why Welsh Mountain belongs in the giftFrom the Canning Pantry
Four Ways Into the Welsh Mountain Story.
Our initial Welsh Mountain assortment spans the savory Pennsylvania pantry and the sweet orchard shelf.
The Pennsylvania Classic
Chow Chow
Sweet · Sour · Pickled Vegetables
A Lancaster County pantry staple built around mixed vegetables in a sweet-and-sour pickled preparation. This is the jar with the strongest direct connection to Pennsylvania Dutch preserving tradition.
The Fermented One
Sauerkraut
Cabbage · Tangy · Fermented
Fresh shredded cabbage is fermented in small batches until it develops the bright tang that makes sauerkraut a natural companion to sausage, pork, sandwiches, and winter meals.
The Orchard Jar
Jams
Fruit · Spreadable · Breakfast
Fruit-forward preserves that bring the sweeter side of Lancaster County canning into toast, biscuits, breakfast boards, and bakery gifts.
The Smooth Spread
Jellies
Fruit · Clear · Smooth
A smoother preserved-fruit experience for the recipient who wants fruit flavor without the texture of whole fruit pieces.
Not Sure Where to Start?
Begin With Chow Chow.
The Most Pennsylvania Jar
If you want the product that most clearly tells the Welsh Mountain and Lancaster County story, start with the chow chow.
Choosing Their Jar
Which Side of the Pantry Are You Sending?
Start with the meal or moment the recipient is most likely to enjoy.
The Regional-Food Person
For someone who wants the jar with the strongest Pennsylvania Dutch connection.
Chow ChowThe Supper Person
For sausage, pork, sandwiches, and old-fashioned comfort-food plates.
SauerkrautThe Toast Person
For someone who wants fruit, bread, and coffee to start the morning.
JamThe Jelly Person
For fruit flavor with a smooth, classic spreadable texture.
JellyBuild the Pennsylvania Pantry
These Jars Have Good Neighbors.
Welsh Mountain gives us some especially natural pairings with other Pennsylvania makers already in our collection.
Chow Chow + Pretzels
Welsh Mountain + Martin’s Handmade Pretzels
Two Pennsylvania pantry traditions create a gift with plenty of regional character.
Jam + Breakfast
Welsh Mountain + New Hope Mills
Fruit preserves beside pancakes, waffles, or fresh bread turn the jar into part of a full breakfast story.
Jelly + Peanut Butter
Welsh Mountain + Nutty Novelties
Pennsylvania fruit preserves and small-batch nut butter make a familiar pairing with much more maker story behind it.
From the Cannery to the Farm Market
A Wholesale Maker With a Lancaster County Retail Connection.
Welsh Mountain Canning operates primarily as a wholesale producer.
The cannery itself is near New Holland, while the full assortment is also sold at nearby Beiler’s Fruit Farm.
That connection makes sense for the brand: a preserved-food company tied closely to a working fruit-and-produce market, where jars sit in the same agricultural landscape that supplies much of the food inside them.
For us, it reinforces the part of the story that matters most: this is not a generic national preserve label. It belongs to a particular Pennsylvania food region.
The jar makes more sense when you know there are farms and orchards just down the road.
The Welsh Mountain sense of placeWhen Welsh Mountain Goes Into a Gift
Every Gift Comes With More.
A Lancaster County Pantry Jar
Chow chow, sauerkraut, jam, or jelly selected to match the gift.
A Small-Batch Canning Story
The New Holland cannery, hand preparation, regional produce, and natural preservation process.
Pennsylvania Preserving
The story behind chow chow, fermentation, orchard preserves, and putting the harvest by.
Personalized Story
Add an occasion story chosen for the person receiving the gift.
From Our Shop
Gift Sets Featuring Welsh Mountain Canning
Give them a Lancaster County pantry jar, the preserving tradition behind it, and another piece of Pennsylvania food culture to open.
Give More Than a Gift
Open the Jar. Keep the Season a Little Longer.
From Lancaster County vegetables and orchard fruit to chow chow, sauerkraut, jams, and jellies, Welsh Mountain Canning keeps one of Pennsylvania's most practical food traditions alive on the pantry shelf.