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Jan B.

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Jan’s many hats:

Jan has been part of Rush Creek Growers for more than twenty years. She is our trucking/shipping coordinator, organizing how the staff pulls orders and does the shipping paper work, so that the office can accurately invoice customers. She loads trucks and does deliveries. Jan  operates the transplanting machine, enters the transplanting data into our inventory program and keeps the transplanting line moving along. She is part of the team keeping track of hard goods and organizing the warehouse. She is also a dog wrangler, pallet pusher, construction worker and Mathematician.

The prompt for the 2026 staff musings is to contribute a recipe. It can be for anything from food or beverage to your recipe for happiness! Here is Jan's response:

I might have to vie with a few other people at Rush Creek for this title, but I’d definitely be in the running for Resident Mixologist. As such, I’d like to suggest my favorite no-recipe recipe for a nice herbal, summertime cocktail. The base is a good amount of grapefruit juice, to which you add fresh squeezed lime juice, gin and Aperol. Put all this into a shaker and toss in several large sprigs of tarragon. Add ice and give it a good, thorough shake. You want to get that tarragon flavor into your drink. Strain and serve over ice or up, depending on your preference, and garnish with another branch of tarragon. If one were to twist my arm and insist on amounts, I’d roughly say 4 parts grapefruit, 2 parts gin, 1 part lime and 1 part Aperol. Feel free to riff on this with different herbs (basil and tarragon together are nice), adding a liqueur (like elderflower or orange), using a different base liquor (perhaps mezcal), or changing up the ratios to your liking. Around my house we call this Shit in a Glass, which is what I answered the first time someone asked what I was drinking, and it stuck. Cheers!