Farm-Fermented Pepper Sauce, Grown & Bottled in the Sierra Nevada Foothills
Small-batch sauce from a forest-edge farm in West Point, California. We grow the peppers, ferment them in small batches, and bottle them here — at 2,800 feet in Calaveras County. Now in our 8th farmers market season.
🌶 Farm-fermented🌲 Grown at 2,800 ft🧺 Find us at the market
From the Foothills
From foothill soil to the bottle on your table
The whole journey happens on five acres. Here's the short version.
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Sierra foothills
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Beds among the trees
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Pepper plants
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Harvest crates
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Fermentation
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Bottled here
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Market table
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To market, pickup, or shipment
The 2026 Lineup
Five sauces. Pick your heat.
All grown and fermented on the farm. Mild to Hot — there's a bottle here for every table.
Heat Scale
How hot are we talking?
A simple 1–5 scale. Find your bottle.
Garlic ChiliMild
ChipotleMedium
Sierra VerdeMedium-Hot
HabaneroHot
Sierra SrirachaHot
What “Farm-Fermented” Means
Most hot sauce is cooked. Ours is alive.
Most hot sauce — even the craft stuff — is peppers and vinegar, cooked and bottled. We grow the peppers, ferment them slow in small batches, and bottle them here. That's where the flavor comes from.
1
Grow
Peppers grown on our five acres at 2,800 ft, among the pines at the edge of the forest.
2
Ferment
Small batches, fermented the slow way — like a sourdough or a good kraut — for real, layered flavor.
3
Bottle
Blended, balanced, and bottled right here in West Point. No filler, no shortcuts.
Forest-Edge Farming
Grown where the forest meets the farm
We farm five acres in West Point, in the Calaveras County foothills of the Sierra Nevada — high, dry, sunny country at the edge of the pines. Real seasons, real sun, and peppers that taste like where they're from. The mountain and the forest aren't a backdrop. They're part of the sauce.
2,800 ft
Elevation
5 acres
Grown & bottled here
8th season
At the farmers market
📷 Photo needed: foothills & pines with the farm in it
(the “among the pines” landscape shot)
(the “among the pines” landscape shot)
Find Us This Week
We sell most of our sauce face-to-face
Same sauce, same prices, no shipping — and you get to say hi.
NEXT MARKET
Murphys Park Farmers Market
Sundays · 9 a.m.–1 p.m.
May 24–October 25, 2026.
West Point Farmers Market
Tuesdays · 4–7 p.m.
June 16–October 27, 2026.
Field Notes
Recipes, harvest updates & life on the farm
Recipes
5 Ways to Use Garlic Chili (Beyond Eggs)
The everyday bottle, put to work all over the kitchen.
Field Notes
How Sierra Verde Got Its Name
The name’s just the address — 2,800 feet up in the foothills.
How It’s Made
What “Farm-Fermented” Actually Means
Why most hot sauce isn’t fermented — and what that does to the flavor.
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