A busy week

5 May 2020

The week has been full on.

We had the biggest number of of orders for home deliveries of veges this week. If orders keep growing we might have to look at doing two runs in a day. Been nice to see one of the cafes we supply salad & edible flowers to re-open for contactless pick up.

Orders for Sauce from the web site have been trickling in as well as going out with the vege orders. It has been cool catching up with customers who have used the phone number on the jars to track us down and make new orders (next run of labels must add web site info as well).

More beds have been dug over and tarped for winter, these will be ready to plant in Spring (tarps stop the weeds growing over winter and protect the soil from heavy rain). Some of the beds have been planted with a mixture of broad beans, peas etc as green mulch crops to help feed the soil.

The kitchen has been busy with batches of crab apple jelly and Silent Assassin Sauce (AKA Jeff’s Favourite). Silent Assassin is a rich Black Boy Peach & Plum based sauce with a Carolina Reaper heat blast, it just needs to be left for about 6 weeks to mature then we are ready to start selling it. Because it sold so fast last year I had wanted to get commercially designed labels for the bottles this year but with so much closed over lockdown have had to make them on our home computer again (oh well hopefully next batch I’ll have new labels for).

Big excitement over the weekend (1-3 May) Mr Chilli Awards in Sydney Australia were announced. Over 100 commercial firms from across Australia & New Zealand competed this year and we got placed 2nd in two categories. 🥰🥳

Ghostly Chilly Plum Sauce 2nd in extra hot with flavour category (2018 got 2nd in same category, 2019 got 2nd in Chilli Chompers Global Hot Sauce Awards)

&

Horowhenua Heat got 2nd in the chutney mild heat category (2019 got 2nd in same category)

We finally got some rain yesterday 👏👏👏 the ground is still so dusty and dry we really need it.