Recipes are more than food — they're memories.
We built Our Recipe Tree because every kitchen, community, and tradition has recipes worth saving — and too many of them disappear before anyone thinks to write them down.
Built from our own family recipe collection
Our Recipe Tree grew from a real family project.
Annie Hall and her cousins Jill and Jane shared years of family recipes, food memories and the kind of stories that tend to live alongside the recipe rather than inside it.
Jill and Jane had helped create a family recipe book, but like most printed books, it was difficult to update and could only capture a moment in time.
While working to digitize and update that collection, Annie realized something simple: you can find millions of recipes online, but there is only one version made by the person you remember.
That became the idea behind Our Recipe Tree — a place where recipes can stay useful and organized while also remaining connected to the people, photos, stories and memories that make them yours.
Recipe Trees are designed to grow. Families and groups can keep adding to them, updating them and creating new connections around food over time.
Our Recipe Tree is operated by Golden Pond Investments Inc.
Recipes can stay useful and organized while remaining connected to the people, photos, stories and memories that make them yours.
Our Recipe Tree in the real world
The Amherstburg Food & Fellowship Mission used Our Recipe Tree to collect recipes and create a 119-page Celebrity Recipe Book.
The finished 119-page Celebrity Recipe Book helped raise thousands of dollars while also generating meaningful community awareness and in-kind support for the Amherstburg Food & Fellowship Mission.
It is a practical example of how a Recipe Tree can bring contributions from many people together, organize them into one collection and turn that collection into a finished recipe book.
What we stand for
Four simple values guide everything we build.
People first
Every feature is designed to make it easier for families, friends, and communities to collect, share, and celebrate food together — whoever that looks like for you.
Preservation over perfection
A recipe captured imperfectly is infinitely more valuable than one never saved at all. We make it easy to start.
Shared, not siloed
Recipes belong to the people who share them. Everything we build encourages contribution, collaboration, and generosity across every kind of group.
Print-worthy quality
Digital is convenient, but a printed book is forever. We hold our books to a standard you'd actually want on your shelf.
Who Our Recipe Tree is for
If food brings your people together — family, friends, workmates, or a whole community — this was built for you.
The family keeper
You're the one who still has grandma's index cards. Our Recipe Tree helps you digitize them and share them with everyone who's been asking.
The thoughtful gift-giver
A printed cookbook is the kind of gift people keep forever. Our Recipe Tree makes it possible in an afternoon — whether it's family recipes, friend group favourites, or a community collection.
The home cook
You love to cook and collect recipes. Our Recipe Tree gives your collection a beautiful, searchable home — one that everyone you share it with can access.
The workplace crew
Office potlucks, team lunches, the colleague whose dish everyone asks about — Our Recipe Tree gives workmates a shared place to collect and celebrate the food that brings them together.
The family organizer
You're always the one pulling holiday meals together. Now you can collect everyone's recipes in one place — and finally get them into a book.
The community connector
Cooking clubs, church groups, sports teams, neighbourhood associations — any group that gathers around food can build a shared recipe tree, collect contributions, and celebrate the dishes that define them.
The fundraiser organizer
Community cookbooks are one of the most effective fundraising tools around. Our Recipe Tree makes it easy to gather contributions, build a polished book, and get it print-ready — without the chaos.
The budding recipe author
You have a collection worth publishing. Our Recipe Tree gives you the tools to organize, write, and export a professional-quality manuscript — PDF or Kindle/ePub — without needing a publisher.
Start preserving the recipes that matter to you.
Free to start. No credit card required. Family recipes, friend group favourites, community traditions — all worth keeping.
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