CITY VIEW: Always in a pickle

By Meredith MacLeod Mar 13, 2025

Marty Strub’s family has been in the pickle business since the 1920s and, since the family business was sold, he’s been using his great-grandparents’ recipe and methods to build his own venture.

MARTY STRUB knows one thing very well: pickles. His family name still lives on jars of kosher dills – a family business that dates back to its launch in a Hamilton backyard in the 1920s. Strub has lived in one square mile for most of his life. He grew up in Westdale with his parents and two brothers and raised his own three children there, too. Strub went to Westdale High School and earned a degree in religious studies from York University before serving as production manager at Strub’s Pickles until the business was sold in 2008. Marty now produces his own hand-packed line of pickles in Hamilton under the brand name Marty’s Pickles. He is father to three and grandfather to seven.

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Last September we were photographed and interviewed by The Hamilton Spectator for their Living/Food section.

Check out Amy Kenny’s article ‘He’s King of the dill‘ with pictures by Gary Yokoyama about how Marty’s Pickles got started and our small batch approach to making great tasting pickles.