Meet Grant and Christy

I have talked about Grant and Christy quite a bit in this blog but have not properly introduced them. Christy is an archeologist, she has been a professor, and worked for the state and in her spare time she is an organic farmer. A very talented woman and literally an encyclopedia of information, she is great to have around.  Grant is a soil scientist and can literally build anything...literally. He has a passion for learning and is extremely creative, he is also great to have around.  Together, I am pretty sure they could save the world.  I had the pleasure of hanging out with them last night, we started by taking stroll through their hoop houses...everything looks amazing.  There are tons of tomatoes on their vines and peppers all over the place, broccoli and cauliflower are getting huge, onions are growing quickly, and the lettuce looks beautiful.  They also have a couple peach trees, some pear trees, and a brand new nectarine tree.  

A few tomatoes growing

Tomato rows

Look at all those peppers

Pepper rows

They are growing fast

 

 

Looking at broccoli

Pear tree

The seasons first peach

Once we walked around the gardens there was some real work to be done.  Grant and Christy make the best hot sauce, seriously the best hot sauce I have ever had.  We are getting dangerously low around here and I have been begging them to make more.  They agreed, as long as I helped make it...so I did. Normally they use fresh peppers but since it is only June and the peppers are not ready yet, we used dried chile peppers from last year.  There is a crop of chile peppers planted right now that will be made into hot sauce at the end of the summer. 

That's a lot of chiles

Re-hydrating the peppers

After picking, de-seeding and re-hydrating the peppers we added salt and then let the peppers ferment for about a week.