September 25, 2024
Good news hot sauce fans! There will be three varieties of Blue Truck Hot Sauce available the morning of Friday Sept. 27. Pick up from my porch or stop by the Prairie Island Campground community garden Friday or Saturday, 11 am to 4 pm during Boats and Bluegrass for a hot sauce tasting and pop up sale. Fresh bottles of Velvet Hammer, Tropical Kiss, and South of Heaven, $6 each. Cash, Venmo to Jon-Swanson-26 (last 4 digits 6703), or PayPal jonswan2001@yahoo.com. No shipping, first come, first serve.
I appreciate your patience and understanding this year. I lost over 200 pepper plants to the flood this spring and heavy rain kept me from planting at Featherstone Farm this year. I replanted everything in July, and was 6 weeks behind schedule, but the weather has been perfect, so I have been harvesting gorgeous peppers this week. Lots more batches on the way.
Flood 2024 update (June 29)
Gardening and farming are always a balance between hope and risk, and with our massive rain levels and flooding River, several of my garden plots at Prairie Island Campground are being flooded and I stand to lose more than 100 beautiful pepper plants. I did however harvest more than 200 garlic plants this morning, a couple weeks early, but the bulbs are beautiful.
More bad news, I have not been able to plant my production plot of 600 peppers at Featherstone Farms because their fields are waterlogged from heavy rains and they cannot prepare beds for planting. My greenhouse is full of peppers and ready to go once the field dries out.
What does all this mean? Hot sauce production will be later this year with fewer bottles available. Stay tuned and I'll update what is available for sale and when. Thanks you for your patience and understanding.
BTHS
Blue Truck Hot Sauce is a one-man, cottage business producing small batch, organic hot sauces, BBQ sauces, and salsas. Grown and made in Winona, MN.
Only the Highest Quality Ingredients
I grow more than 40 varieties of hot peppers, 16 varieties of tomatoes and tomatillos, 14 different varieties of garlic and onions, along with many other vegetables and herbs for the best and freshest possible hot sauces and salsas.
No shortcuts, no inferior ingredients, no pesticides or herbicides. Fresh, local, organic, and delicious. These products are homemade and not subject to state inspection.
