Category Travel

The International Pepper Conference

I spent the last week in Bangkok, attending the 27th International Pepper Conference, or IPC for short. This conference is the biggest international event for scientists like geneticists and pepper breeders to come together and discuss new techniques in producing…

The road to the Market

A trailer full of Hatch chile sacks pulling off of I-25 onto the offramp to Cerillos road in Santa Fe

Before, during, and after the Hatch chile season, I’m on the road quite a bit. There are several reasons for this, but perhaps the most important one is that I care a lot about maintaining high quality of products in…

The Village of Hatch, NM

A welcome to Hatch sign at the Hatch Chile Festival

Hatch is a village in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, with a population usually hovering around 1,500 people, but that number fluctuates greatly as many migrant workers arrive in town for the chile season! Picking chile is incredibly hard work…