Ups and Downs

14 June 2021

The last few months have been a real mixed bag.

THE UPS

We had amazing results after spraying the apples with an organic treatment for codlin moth, apples for miles this year :-)

Sales of the sauces/chutney/jam have slowly increased.

The extra cillies planted have produced reasonably well.

We got invited to have a stall at Combustion, Wellingtons only spicy foods festival @Brewtown in Upper Hutt. It was an amazing day with some other amazing hot sauce producers from around the region. Can’t wait for next years event, it will be epic.

Adding to our product line we are now registered to make dried chillies, chilli powder, herbs, fruit, vegetables, seasoning mixes. The first 3 products Chilli/Lime Salt, Chilli/Lemon Salt & Solar Flare Seasoning are now loaded on the website.

THE DOWNS

The van we use for markets has broken down twice, needed the windscreen replaced and need the universal joint replaced tomorrow.

The variety of lettuce we usually grow has not been available and the replacement just has not thrived so for the last 6 weeks we have only just had enough to do commercial orders (we have had to put a couple of retail orders on hold for now and only supply the cafes/resaurants). So not enough product to do local markets :-(

So while lots of UPS the last few months have been a bit stressful.

Our new Chilli/Lime Salt, Chilli/Lemon Salt & solar Falare Seasoning. Other than the salt all is grown and processed onsite by us.

Paddock to Plate is our aim with all our products.