If you are growing the rose, then you can easily chose not to use pesticides on it.

If you are looking for a source for rose hips, that is a different question. There are sources for dried hips, but I don't think I've ever run across one for fresh hips.

I've made rose petal jam many times. It's one of the easier jams I've made, since the petal don't need a lot of processing.

Whereabouts are you? If you were in the Bay Area, you could call up Lhasa Karnak and see what they say. (They have several types of rose products, at least one is organic.)

I'd try farmers markets too though.

Whatever it is you're making, it already sounds good ...

I’m in South Carolina

If you're not in a hurry, grow Rosa rugosa from seed. Will take a few years but you will have a large crop of plants to harvest from. Rugosa roses have large hips. - John

@john_z6_oh thank you for pointing me in this direction. I wasn’t aware of how to grow any from seed. Do you have any personal experience with these or their flavor?

Roses as plants that bear hips are longer to grow from seed than other perennials. Even when you buy them as plants, you have the first year "sleep", second year "creep" and third year "leap" before they start blooming profusely. I'd definitely plan on the plants if you want hips within the next few years. To get enough hips for jam you'd need to have a good collection of blooms that you then let sit on the bush without deadheading. Rugosas are quicker than some other roses to set hips and you'd pick them when they turn rosy but not dried (the dried ones are for seeds).

The Burpee deal for $19 for bare root plants is pretty good. Just be sure to soak the roots around 24 hours when they arrive before potting them up and cover the canes with soil until they're good and leafed out. Rugosa also grows well on own roots, and in SC you have not only great weather for roses but relatively acidic soil that rugosas like. They actually don't tolerate spraying well even if you tried, so plant them and just keep them with weekly water if you don't get enough rain, and plant them in plenty of sun.

Other vendors with own root rugosas can include Roses Unlimited (in Laurens SC), or Rogue Valley in CA or Burlington Roses in CA or A Reverence for Roses or Rose Petals Nursery, both in the south. All of these have reasonable prices for roses and good quality. You might be close enough to Roses Unlimited to drive there and window shop with input from experts there!

Have fun

Cynthia

Roses Unlimited has both Rosa Rugosa and Rosa Rugosa Alba. I have both. I've never tried Rose Jam. I grow them for the beauty of the bloom and the beautiful foliage. Plant them in decent soil, water about once or twice a week, and feed with fish emulsion about once a month, and they are happy. NO SPRAY OF ANY KIND.

Rosa Rugosa Alba.

There might be others, but I know that Angel Gardens in Florida advertises as growing totally organic roses, which are on their own roots. Pam puts out an availability list a couple of times a year, but the best way to find out if they have a plant available is to text or email Pam. She ships quart and gallon sized plants.

Angel Gardens roses in Florida (link)

If you don't mind my asking, OP, what recipe are you going to use?

@Need2SeeGreen 10 (SoCal) I haven’t decided yet. I was watching some videos on youtube. They didn’t seem too complicated

You want Mountain Valley Growers, they ship roses and are certified organic.