Urban Pharm

Urban Pharm shrubs use good-for-you ingredients—ACV, honey, fruits, & herbs—to enliven the everyday.

04/22/2026

A little behind-the-scenes from setting up for the Rhode Island Tabletop Show last week ✨

We loved seeing so many familiar faces and meeting new customers we’re excited to work with. There’s nothing better than connecting with people and sharing Urban Pharm.

A big thank you to for organizing such a fantastic event and for hosting it in such a beautiful space.

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04/21/2026

Early Morning Puttering in the Kitchen with Jill ♥️

We love making our own almond milk (well, any-kind-of-nut milk). Jill walks you through her simple and easy process. Secret: dates make it next level.

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04/20/2026

Jill drove to Portland, Maine this afternoon to meet the incredible Mia and Bob of . Her car is loaded up with the best raw apple cider vinegar on earth! It will be infused with all sorts of deliciousness to make your Urban Pharm shrub.

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04/09/2026

Time to stock up on Urban Pharm shrub!

Spring is in the air, and with it comes at urge to refresh, reset, and restock the essentials. As you swap out winter routines for a brighter, lighter days, it's the perfect moment to take stock of what's in your kitchen and bar.

Now is the perfect time to replenish!

Enjoy 15% off when you purchase three or more individual bottles with code SPRINGRESTOCK.

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03/23/2026

Your New Favorite Market Tote

For a limited time, spend $100 or more and you’ll receive a complimentary Urban Pharm Market Tote. Made for farmers market mornings and easy spring days, it’s designed to be filled with your favorite shrubs and everyday essentials.

(Just add the tote to your cart and we will take it from there!)

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03/18/2026

Beautiful hints of spring. 🌷

03/16/2026

These two little girls are happy to be getting shrubby with you!

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03/13/2026

Shrub Pairings for Final Days of Winter

These final days of winter still call for candlelight, hearty soups, and dinners that linger. Urban Pharm Shrubs bring brightness to the season’s richest cooking, adding gentle acidity where you least expect it. Drizzle at the finish to lift creamy gratins, stir into marinades to tenderize and deepen flavor, or whisk or shake into vinaigrettes to wake up winter vegetables. Add a splash to sparkling wine, water, or tea. Even dessert benefits, where herbal and floral notes add freshness, color, joy, and everyday goodness.

How to Use Shrubs in Winter Cooking

Drizzle at the end: Give finish and freshness to creamy or rich foods by adding shrub right before serving.

Marinate or braise: Mix shrub into marinades or braising liquids. Adds subtle acidity and layers of flavor, tenderizes meat.

Build vinaigrettes: Combine shrub with olive oil and mustard for salad or roasted veggie dressings.

For dessert: Add a splash of shrub to poached pears or in a crostata.

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03/12/2026

Our Love List: March 2026

Candied citrus peel
Jill makes the most delicious candied citrus peel. Bitter (in the best way), sweet, chewy, and light-up-the-room bright. It’s the kind of kitchen project that feels both simple and elevated.

Store-Bought Tulips
Nothing fancy. Just the $8 bunch from the grocery store. A tiny rebellion against winter and a gentle bridge toward daffodil season.

Apis Apotheca: Golden Milk ✿ Emulsifying Cleansing Balm
Inspired by the Ayurvedic golden milk drink, this cleansing balm is rich with turmeric, cardamom, and whole-plant infusions grown on Apis Apotheca’s farm. Jill loves it for its plant power and its gentle, comforting ritual.

Coffee tables loaded with stuff
The opposite of minimalism. Stacks of books, a half-finished crossword, a candle burned almost all the way down. These are our favorite kinds of spaces, the ones that show the layers of a life being lived. Texture, curiosity, and a little beautiful clutter.

Decluttering
Yes, we love maximalism—but the intentional kind. Every object has a place, a purpose, a story. Which is why we also love the quiet ritual of decluttering. The mail gets read and recycled, the photos sorted, the desktop cleared. Strangely satisfying, deeply balancing.

What's on your Love List? Let us know!

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03/09/2026

In the Kitchen with Jill

Candied Citrus Peels

🍊Peel your citrus and cut it into strips.
🍊If the pith (the white layer between the skin and the fruit) is thick, thin it out using a small, sharp, paring knife. This is where a lot of the bitterness lies.
🍊Put in a pot, cover with water, and bring to a boil and then simmer for 5ish minutes.
🍊Do this 2-3 times changing out your water each time. (This is another way to pull the bitterness out of the peel.)
🍊Put your de-bittered citrus peel back into the same pot and cover with a simple syrup, using 1:1 ration of water to sugar.
🍊Simmer for 20-ish minutes until the peel is jewel-like and the syrup has thickened.
🍊Remove the peels from the pot carefully! Very hot sugar!
🍊Lay on a piece of parchment paper, cookie sheet, plate, whatever.
🍊Pour white sugar into a flat-ish bowl and toss the citrus peels until they are covered.
🍊Let them sit out, maybe 24 hours to dry, and then put in a glass jar out on your counter or bar.

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03/05/2026

On a recent trip, I had a lot of time to think about why I travel.

On the surface, I thought I loved the movement of it. The pre-trip organizing, the packing, the thrill of landing somewhere that smells and sounds different from home. And that’s true. I do love discovering a great baked good (Hi Pasteis!), revisiting a favorite restaurant (Hi Zuni!), and seeing things I have never seen before (Hi little echidna!).

But that’s not the real reason I go.

I go to be with friends. Sitting across from them at their kitchen table for hours feels like reclaiming something essential. Discovering places together is such a bond.

I go because my sister and her family are in Australia, and being woven into their everyday life (the schools, the grocery stores, the favorite fish & chip place), the ordinary magic of it all, is worth every hour in the air.

I go for my aunt’s 85th birthday, for our baby cousin’s wedding, for Christmas Day, for girls’ weekend, because being there in person, with all these people who I love and don’t see enough, fills my tank.

Travel, for me, isn’t about escape. It’s about return.

It’s about remembering who I am in the presence of people who have known me for a long time. It’s about showing up to mark the milestones that stitch a life together. It’s about choosing to gather, even when it’s inconvenient, even when it’s far.

There’s something clarifying about leaving home to be with the people you love. You drop your usual distractions. You pay attention. You linger at the table. You listen more closely. You make space.

I’ve realized that what I’m really chasing isn’t a destination. It’s connection.

And in many ways, that’s what we’re doing here, too. Urban Pharm has always been about more than shrub. It’s about what happens around it. The dinners, the celebrations, the everyday moments that are made a little brighter. It’s about creating reasons to gather and little rituals that bring us back to one another.

So yes, I will keep taking the risk of being stuck at the airport for two days (or was it three?). Because it is always worth it.

With love,
Anne

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03/04/2026

Library, Christmas, and orange peel love.

One of the things I love most about the library is the hold list. I put books on it and then forget about them, and they appear when they’re ready—some right away, others months later. It’s always a surprise.

I rarely pay attention to the email notices. Instead, I just stop in when I happen to be walking by, and something wonderful is waiting for me.

This time, just as we’re moving from snowy days into spring, what showed up? The Christmas Companion.

Wildly out of season, but flipping through it brought back so many cozy holiday memories and somehow made me look forward to the next one already.

And since one of our closest friends is in England right now (Hi ), paging through this very British book made me feel a little closer to her, too. ❤️📚🍊

Xo Anne

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