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By Hot Juan, May 4, 2010 11:20 am

The Chilli Garden

Based in a wooded vale on the Surrey/Hampshire bor­der The Chilli Garden seven acre’s are farmed by three gen­er­a­tions of the same fam­ily. Between them Father, Daugh­ter and Son-in-law; Peter, Alison and Mik, have wealth of exper­i­ence in farm­ing, food pro­duc­tion and design enabling them to make everything on the farm themselves.

There web site is truly excel­lent for an in-house design, with a great look that goes across the whole product range as well.

They are very com­mit­ted to nat­ural farm­ing meth­ods and are mem­bers of “The Whole­some Food Asso­ci­ation” (a self poli­cing body for small hold­ers and farm­ers which holds the prin­cipals of organic farm­ing in highest esteem).

Only their own chil­lies are used in their sauces, Jam and Jel­lies and are free from all arti­fi­cial ingredi­ents, we have reviewed some of their products in the past and they come highly recommended.

Their range includes some very inter­est­ing products I don’t think I have seen a jam’s or Jel­lies made with Hun­garian Hot Wax Chil­lies, they also have a Thai Basque Hot Sauce that com­bines Thai Dragon Chil­lies with Basque Gor­ria Pep­pers, I can­not wait to try them.

Please visit them at www.thechilligarden.co.uk where you can order on-line.

The Chilli Garden
Opax Farm Nurs­ery
Spats Lane,
Hearn,
Head­ley,
Hampshire

info@thechilligarden.co.uk

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By Hot Juan, February 2, 2010 10:45 am

Tim Murphy con­tac­ted us a while ago to tell us about his new ven­ture “Cam­bridge Chilli Farm” after the arrival of a little boy in Septem­ber 2008, Tim who has pre­vi­ously run a small part time nurs­ery ded­ic­ated to Hel­le­bores, decided to go full time, but not grow­ing Hel­le­bores but chillies.

So in Janu­ary 2009, the first large batch of seeds was sown and the new ven­ture star­ted. With three poly­tun­nels they could grow a good crop of chil­lies and by mid June they star­ted pro­du­cing ripe chillies.

After much devel­op­ment and some help from the local author­it­ies they star­ted pro­du­cing their own rel­ishes, Jel­lies and sauces. Then in July 2009 they did their first Farm­ers Mar­ket in St. Ives Nr Cambridge.

Cam­bridge Chilli Farm Stall

Now they are reg­u­lars on the Farm­ers Mar­kets with a stand at The St. Ives, Cam­bridge, Ely and Ram­sey markets

They have a range of Sauces which we hope to review as time goes on, including:- Ghost Pep­per ‘10’ Sauce – An all nat­ural sauces which boasts 10 Naga Morich per bottle.

And Naga Nap­alm Sauce, Habanero Hot Sauce, Pine­apple & Habanero Hot Sauce, Sweet Chilli Sauce, Smoky Chi­potle Sauce, Tomato & Chilli Sauce.

As well as a impress­ive col­lec­tion of spicy jellys , jam and a smoky relish:- Raspberry & Chilli Jelly, Lime & Chilli Jelly, Cran­berry & Ser­rano Chilli Jelly, Habanero Gold Jam and Red Onion & Smoky Chi­potle Relish.

No online shop as yet, but they accept Cheques and PayPal, So if you are in Cam­bridge visit one of the local farm­ers mar­kets and let us know what you think.

UPDATE:  Tim has also now added an shop to their web site, so you can now order on-line

Visit www.cambridgechillifarm.co.uk for more information

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By Hot Juan, January 25, 2010 2:19 pm

Dart­moor chilli farm estab­lished in 2007 is loc­ated on the out­skirts of Ash­bur­ton within the beau­ti­ful Dart­moor National Park. It is run by Phil and Kay Palmer. Kay has trained in flor­istry, hor­ti­cul­ture and hol­istic ther­apies. Phil has a dip­loma in com­puter stud­ies and is the chilli enthu­si­ast. They grow over 90 vari­et­ies of sweet pep­per and chilli plants along with rhu­barb, herbs and vegetables.

Dart­moor Chilli Farm

They run the farm hol­ist­ic­ally and organ­ic­ally without the use of herb­i­cides or pesti­cides and use nature and hard work to min­im­ise the dam­age caused by pests such as bio­lo­gical con­trol, com­pan­ion plant­ing, and reg­u­lar hand removal of slugs and snails which are given a hol­i­day to another part of the nurs­ery. Being both vegan we real­ise the import­ance of liv­ing in har­mony with nature and our sur­round­ings and there­fore do not kill any pests but encour­age nat­ural wild­life hab­it­ats to cre­ate a greater biodiversity.

“We have a very low car­bon foot print and caring for the envir­on­ment is very import­ant to us. The nurs­ery is off grid there­fore we cre­ate our own elec­tri­city with 4 large solar pan­els and a small wind tur­bine, up until July 2009 we only used rain water which we col­lec­ted in over ten 1000 Litre water buts. We now have a bore hole which has given us our own drink­ing water and allowed us to water the plants with a hose pipe when neces­sary. We con­sciously re-cycle all of our house­hold waste and by con­scious shop­ping meth­ods have not had to add any­thing to land­fill in over two years.” Says Phil.

They have an extens­ive range of vegan chilli chocol­ate with the excep­tion of the milk chilli chocol­ate. The range of dark chocol­ate con­tains 70% cocoa and is avail­able in plain, orange, mint and cof­fee. The vegan theme con­tin­ues in the range of chut­neys along with the chilli jam, sauces and chilli jelly.

“We are pas­sion­ate about what we do and proud of everything that we have achieved, in a world where most com­pan­ies are only con­cerned with gross profits we are a small com­pany who have embraced a sus­tain­able liv­ing which allows us to work in har­mony with nature whilst hol­ist­ic­ally grow­ing and pro­du­cing a range of chilli plants and pro­duce that we can sell loc­ally and nationally.”

You can find out more about the Dart­moor Chilli Farm at their web site www.dartmoorchillifarm.co.uk

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By Hot Juan, October 3, 2009 9:30 am

Based in Oxford­shire Ian Pax­ton has been a farmer for nearly 40 years, and farms about 100 acres, he has 3 large poly tun­nels which altern­ate between being used for lamb­ing and then when the lambs are out in the fields they are filled with Chilli Plants, he then runs a mail order busi­ness, while also appear­ing at local mar­kets selling fresh and dried chil­lies as well as his own range of sauces.

We found this video from Ian on Youtube

Please visit Ian web site www.chillies2u.co.uk for details of how to order, or his sched­ule of events and markets.

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By Hot Juan, September 22, 2009 10:05 am

The Chilli Com­pany — Con­ver­ted Barn

Cre­ated by Adrian and Den­ise Nut­tall who star­ted grow­ing and mak­ing sauces in 2001 The Chilli Com­pany has grown over the years and in 2006 they moved to lar­ger premises in Mendle­sham and opened the Chilli Farm.

Based in a 400 year old con­ver­ted barn which houses the shop and licensed cof­fee shop, with the nurs­ery open to the pub­lic dur­ing the sum­mer, they grow and sell over 50 vari­et­ies of chilli plants as well as a using them to make a range of homemade chilli includ­ing Chilli Scones, Chilli Saus­age rolls and Chilli Brownies and they have recently developed their own Chilli Ice Cream.

Inside the shop

They run a num­ber of events dur­ing the sum­mer includ­ing:-
“Pimi­en­tos de Padron Fest­ival” in August and the “Chilli Fiesta & Chili Cook Off” in Septem­ber, which attrac­ted over 700 vis­it­ors, it included cook­ing demon­stra­tions, South Amer­ican Dance les­sons, Chili Cook-Off Com­pet­i­tion as well as Chilli Stalls, BBQ & out­door bar. Check there web site for the latest dates and events.

You can order products online at their web site http://www.chillicompany.com they stock over 300 chilli products

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