Mojo Jojo Pickles & Preserves

About Jo

• Mojo Jojo Pickles is the creative canning kitchen of Johwanna ‘Jojo’ Alleyne specializing in pickled and preserved vegetables, fruit, and eggs.
• Founded in 2011 as a side hustle to being a professional photographer and darkroom technician,  the company was an offshoot of volunteer canning bees for Slow Food Edmonton.
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• Always lead by her stomach, this lover of food and market culture took on canning professionally; participating in farmers markets and artisanal markets in her local market community in Edmonton and evolving to grocery distribution and wholesale across Canada as the business grew.
• Johanna holds an F.D.A certificate in acidified food processing as well as a canning certificate from the Center for Home Preservation.  
• She’s also served on the board of Slow Food Edmonton and as the president of the Alberta Farmers Market Association.
• Despite many moves and a global Pandemic, Mojo Jojo Pickles opened a permanent kitchen with a store storefront on Edmonton’s Whyte Avenue in the Pandemic summer of 2020.
• What drives the mad canner?
• A love of the immediacy of the natural world, an inexhaustible appetite for food and food culture, and a desire to always explore the world face-to-face and smile by smile.