Baumgardner PicklesWoodburn, Ore. - If you're on Judie Jamison's Christmas list you're probably going to get
 a jar of dill pickles, because even though they have hit the grocer's shelves, she's still experimenting.
With the support and help from her husband, Tom, and a secret recipe handed
down from her grandmother, Jamison created Baumgardner Pickle Co.

"It's really taken everybody to get this company launched, "Jamison said of the many family and friends who helped her do it.
‘Though most of them kept pushing me to make my pickles commercially, there were some that
thought I had lost my mind." Jamison, who grew up in Northeast Portland, was born into a pickle-making family.

"Every summer we made pickles, and it was a big production," Jamison said. "It was hard to plan anything,
because when my father decided it was time to make them,
we had to stop everything, get in the car and drive out along the Columbia River where
Portland International Airport is now, and shop the farm stands for supplies.
"We would load the trunk with garlic, dill, mustard seeds and crates of muddy cucumbers,
" she said. "When we got home, we headed for the basement, dumped the cucumbers in a
galvanized tub filled with water and each kid grabbed a scrub brush.
 It was the kids' job to clean the cucumbers and cut the heads off the dill.