“Consolidated Bottle said, ‘We’re out until the new year. We have a similar product but you have to order over 4,000 pieces because it’s a special order,’” says Woodward. “We are not built to accommodate 4,000 jars, so I was like, OK. Time to use Instagram and see if our customers will return their jars.”
“What used to be a four-day ordering turnaround has turned into potentially four weeks for this particular shipment,” says Hutton, who specializes in making kombucha, and fermented vegetables such as sauerkraut and kimchi. “When you have a product that has to be packed into jars when it’s ready, and you don’t have anywhere to put it unless it’s in jars, that creates a serious problem.”
While for businesses, an undersupply of jars and lids could potentially disrupt production and require significant work-arounds, for home canners, it puts a dent in their ability to save the season. More than half of Canadians grew at least one fruit or vegetable this year, according to This boom in gardening, says Sylvain Charlebois, professor of food distribution and policy, and senior director of the AAL, has been a major factor in the scarcity of canning supplies over the past several weeks.
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As a high volume year round homecanner a shortage of jars and lids is normal this time of year. Nothing to do with covid!
How about recycling pasta sauce jars etc, be a little creative!
Could be more people home growing cannabis and using mason jars for that also.
Lol there’s a shortage cause of the cannabis harvest . One plant can take up alot of jars . One plant can produce 1 lb of bud
Not much longer! We will all be back to work! Trumps been cured ! The first official sign it’s over! Sit on it mason jars!
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m_layton - I hope you’re stocked up.
Yes, and this weekend my wife and I had to freeze our apple sauce as we couldn't get canning lids in my small town. Sold out in six places.