Posted on 03/17/2021 6:12:37 AM PDT by mylife
A Minnesota farmer whose crop was badly damaged by a hail storm ended up having the harvest rescued by a company that turned the damaged peppers into a special hot sauce.
Dana Jokela, owner of Sogn Farm in Cannon Falls, said the pepper crop was destroyed by a hail storm right before the planned harvest, and it looked like a total loss.
Jokela said one of the farm's clients, Cry Baby Craig's Hot Sauce, offered to step in and rescue the damaged fruits.
"They all took whatever peppers could be used, a lot of scratch and dent," Jokela told KCCO-TV.
The company turned the damaged peppers into a hot sauce aptly called Hail Fire. The company's owners said all profits from the sauce is going directly to the farm.
"Yes, it is a nice gesture, but I wasn't looking at that. I was looking at the pain those families are dealing with, knowing that you woke up one morning and lost everything and you may not have another season to grow," founder Craig Kaiser said.
Kaiser said the sauce is selling well and the farm can expect to receive up to $40,000.
Hail Fire is on sale now at Lund's stores.
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There’s still good people out there. Thanks for the feel good story.
It’s nice to know that the world is not completely full of flaming ***holes.
Mission accomplished.
Boy! Talk about turning lemons into lemonade...🤗
And “damaged fruits”...
As a lifeling chilehead, that is good to go.
I guess the farmer didn’t have crop insurance?
Most crops are readily preserved but one year I grew cantaloupe and they all come on at once,.
Now I can eat 2 of those a day but how do you preserve cantaloupe?
The answer is a sorbet, and several freezers.
Depending on the sauce, the flaming comes the day after...
I am trying to figure out what hot pepper comes on in Mar in Minnesota?
But hey, God bless this guy.
I am trying to figure out what hot pepper comes on in Mar in Minnesota?
But hey, God bless this guy.
No peppers yet. As a rule of thumb, the hotter the pepper, the longer it takes to germinate, and produce.
I’m sure old Mark and Digger could figure out a way to make something out of excess cantaloupes.
I usually plant 3 varieties. I plant mine in mounds and put 3 - 4 seeds in each mound. Rarely do all come up, so I replant over the coarse of several weeks. That helps spread out my harvest. You could stagger your planting and eat 2 a day for many weeks.
I have a few bottles of hot sauce from rations I ate in the 80’s LOL
Would have been fall harvest. Good hot sauce is naturally fermented for months. Fall harvest, overwinter fermentation, spring release of the sauce. Makes sense.
I had a bucket full of them lil tobasco’s but they all turned brown.
NOT my fave hot sauce, but makes an MRE better.
Fire really helps to make it palatable
Thumbs up for Cry Baby Craig!
That's what's known as a straight line.
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