Most pepper growers shut down in winter. Ours just started flowering.

That wasn’t a marketing line. It’s happened. By mid-June, when most farms are buttoned up or idling, like I thought I would be, we noticed something strange: our medium-heat pepper plants were pushing out new shoots. Not just leaves. Blossoms. Then — fruit. Some of the super-hots backed off, sure. But the rest? They were […]