Jason Vickers named his company after his mission; Natoncks Metsu means “feeding my cousins.”
Beneath the citrus brightness of fresh tangerine juice in Salish Style soda syrup lies the absinthe-like complexity of young cedar tips. Stir it into sparkling water and the taste is celebratory: a drink apt for a toast. The drink itself is a victory—the product of Jason Vickers’s long journey back from rock bottom, and the community that helped him get there.
Vickers gave himself over to the police in the parking garage behind Hot Mama’s Pizza on a November night in 2016. Vickers grew up in Seattle, wandering the Pike Place Market, later
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